Hellraisers Journal: Thomas H. West, Labor Poet, on Soldiers Gone Scabbing against the Kansas City Street Car Strikers

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Any soldier who is guilty
Can be called a “Labor Hun.”
-Thomas H. West
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Hellraisers Journal – Monday January 13, 1919
Kansas City Labor Poet on Soldiers, in Uniform, Serving as Scabs

Thomas H. West, in his latest poem for working men and women, tells the sad story of soldiers gone scabbing against the street car strikers of Kansas City. The poem is entitled “Uniforms Disgraced” and was first published by the Labor Herald of Kansas City, Missouri.

From the Leavenworth Labor Chronicle of January 10, 1919:

KC Streetcar Strike, Poem by TH West, Lv KS Lbr Chc p4, Jan 10, 1919

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