The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-04-23
NUMBER lG.
| there is no need Of angry words to effect all
this, unless the rights of other workingmen
| are ruthlessly invaded.

I there IS no need OF angry words to effect al |
this, unless the rights of other workinsmen
are ruthlessly invaded.
| The spirit Of mob violence is not, Therefore G,
directed fist or chiefly against the employ
or, no matter how great tyrant he may
have been. lie is powerless, and may fold
his arms in silence, if no one is really to
enter the vacant service. Every act of iu-
timldation, every resort to brute force,
shows that other workingmcn are willing to
fill tho deserted places, and must be kept
from it by the grossest violation of the lib
| critics these men have vowed to cherish aud
protect. There can be no occasion fer de-
monstrations of force, except as these are
directed against men who arc willing and
| anxious to work.
will the scabs and the rates take the
bread out of the mouths of our wives aud
children ? demand the angry rioters as ey
break the windows of tho factory, overturn
the cars in the street, tear up the tracks
OF the railway, upset the carts loaded with
coal, cast off the lines of the barges, "kill'
the engines ready to draw the freight, and
hardly stop short of killing the men who
desire to use them for this purpose.
But have the scabs and the rats aud all
the rest of unemployed, by whatever oppro-
brious names they may be known, who seek
co secure this service, no liberty to put :hc
bread earn ed by honest toll into the mouths
of their wives and little ones? By what
new bill of ris hts is this denied to them ?
Is it not as much Of sacred right Tor
one man to hire himself out as for another
man to quit the hirelng's place? But if
these men take the vacant places they keep
the others out of them And pray, have
the Others not keep them out of these op-
potunties for work all these months or years
while they been idle and hungry
We know that in theory the strikers often
say that they will stop at the line where
violence begins, but in practice they never
remain inside of this limit in any great
struggle. Even if no blows are struck no
e'oues arc tnroWn, no snOtS arc hrcd, tho
threats and iutimidations directed against
tnoso Who would take the vacant places if
they dared, are as rcas nois-.,ss violence n,
charge with bludgeous or bayonets, or
a volly from more deadly firearms.
Those who protest against this system.
are not, therefore, as unmndful of the
rights OF workiugmcn as the organizers and
leaders Of the trades unions would have their
followers believe. Nor do they look at this
question from only y one side, becarso they
are consulting merely selfish interest
There arc many thoughtful hborcrs engag-
cd in the great work of earning an honest
living by honorable toll who are heartily
with us in the view we take Of this exciting
question. w shall consider other aspccts
OF it in succeeding articles. In the mean
time we wish every rejecting man to pom
der over this spectacle, and to judge If tie
love Of liberty is all on one side and the
grinding tyranny Of which We hear so
much wholly confined to the othcr.-N y.
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