The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-19
MORE UNION rNroLERANcE.


 The Advertiser has on several occa- by some of the labor unions. and the in- jury done their cause by extreme meas ures. We have done this in the interest of right, justice and fairness, as we'll as in the interest of the working men them- selves, who have nothing to gain and much to lose by pursuing course calcu- lated to deprive them of the sympathy and confidence of risht-thinking people. Take this as an example of "The Boy cott Run Mad" as a contemporary heads 1t:
 The extent to which the boycott run mad may go has lately been witnessed in the strike of cemetery workers near San Francisco. Three union gravediggers I were disc dis;chssrged for reasons not not given, tery Workers Union determined that there should be no burials in Cypress Lawn Cemetery and no cremations in the these men were taken back Following this declaration acts distressing to per- sons suffering from bereavement and dis graceful to San Mateo County, in which the cemetery is located. have been com mitted. few days ago a hearse fol- lowed by mourners was turned back by the boycotters. armed with spades. grew some insignia of their calling, and later superintendent himself was flooded from hydrant close at hand before the hearse reached it bearing the body. And to com plete the outrage oil was put In the fur mace fues of the crematorium. and upon an attempt to start the fires for the pur- pose of cremating body an explosion ployed in the work narrowly escaped death.
 It is hard to imagine anything among civilized people more revolting than this. If the sacred precincts of the cemetery, or the bodies of the dead are not secure against violence and dissertation what security is there for anything or any body. Naturally, we will be told by hon. orabie and conservative working men that they do not approve such acts. but that does not change the fact that when the unions recognize boycotts and lock outs they make themselves responsible for just such occurrences as detailed above.
 Another incident which no good man can defend is connected with the recent strike at the Hecia Iron Works, near New
 
 this statement to The New York Sun:
 "About a year and a half ago Parks met George Low, the Superintendent of our outside work in Manhattan, and told the walking delegates as ether firms ms had. He showed Low a number of checks and said that 1t would go easy with the Aeeia i people If they paid him SiooO. and Low told me of this and I declined to give Parks cent. Low told my de- cision to Parks. and the very next day We had strike on our hands. The work men told us that Parks ordered them out because we had non-union men on a bank building We were constructing. They said they had told Parks themselves that this was not so and that he had merely replied that they must stay on strike as he wanted to teach us lesson.
 oatside individuals whose work was range a meeting with Parks, and I did so He told me Hat-footed that our men could not go to work until paid him M,oOC; :S ,,ria I told him & that the president of had been made in ordering a strike on our place and he replied:
 don't care a damn for the union country. You'll start your works when you pay the money. I'm Sam Parks. I T refused to give nim cent at the
 
 ing too much money, and agreed to pay his demand. It was at my request that Mir. McCord issued that check"
 It will be observed in this case that the only cause of complaint, and the reason given to the President was the charge that non-union men were employed. This was shown to be untrue. but that made no difference to Parks. He wanted to teach us a lesson" and that was not all he wanted He wanted to blackmail the company for his own benefit, and did 1t. The President sacrificed his independence and his ideas of right and justice, sub mitted to out and out robbery at the hands of scoundrel because the com pany could not afford to allow their works to remain idle. This is not the first nor the only case where employers have yielded to unjust demands and to virtual robbery, and 1t will not be the last. Such things will happen just as long as organized labor suffers itself con- trolled by men of the Sam Parks brand. Honest laboring men cannot afford such acts, and they should not allow them selves to become the tools or the agents of such men.