The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-04-15
ORGANIZED LABOR IS BITTERLY
 DENOUNCED BY MANUFACTURER s
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it's greatest oppression; it is there that political ehicanery and organized labor have joined hands for the mulcting or the business interests Of the city. From the restless elements of Chicago ep1anates that great stream of socialistic virus which, if allowed to flow unrestricted, will poison the entire nation. It Is there that organized labor holds forth triumph ant, successfully defylng the law and pulp lie opinion. It is there that trades union ism has run bad; where agitators who do no work are lauded as great and use- ful citizens. Chicago cried for redemp- tion Will there ever be sufficient crys- utilization of the majority and decent public sentiment in that city to remove the bonds which shackle it's industrial progress?
 reached a point where 1t has become a menace to all decent and law-abiding citizens. The voice of public conscience is hushed from terrorization."
 Mir. Parry then recited the murders of five men which took place in Chicago 'in the name of organized labor" the victims all being non-union men. He de- scribed the inability of the courts of jus tice to convict any of the murderers be- cause of the fear felt by Jurors that they 'in turn might be assassinated"
 MT. Parry concluded the Chicago para graph with the prophecy that Chicago will be in the hands of martial law in a very few months unless there is an awakening of the civic pride of Chicago which shall put an end to the lawless- ness now throttling the city,
 Following the presidents message, Marshall Cushing. national secretary, made his annual report, showing an in- crease In the association's membership for the last year of over one hundred per cent After the luncheon recess, Hamilton Carhart of Michigan, national treasurer, reported a satisfactory and improved financial condition for the treas- ury.
 c. w. Post of Battle Creek Mich, orig inator of the Post check system, delivered an address on "The Tyranny of Trades Unlons." He said in part:
 Tyranny of Trades Unions.
 ''I am here to plead the cause of the white slave of today. He may be partly enslaved by a combination of circum- stances, taken advantage of by selfish manufacturers although practically every employe Is as free as air to go and come at his pleasure and sell his labor where he likes, but the slave of a tyrannous labor union, is in truth and in fact, more abject than the negro slave of the past
 There may have been some brutal and tyrannous slave owners in the south, but ask you if ever In all the history oi negro slavery did there exist such con. dition of oppression, cruelty to men, women and children, terror, anarchy beatings and murder as now exists under the acts of desperate members of labor unions?
 "ln the gradual solution of the wage question and the establishment of the rights of both parties labor unions be- came a necessity In order to curb the selhshness and injustice of some manu- facturers, but such violent and desperate excesses have crept into the operation of the labor unions, that common safety de- mands new union eliminating the faults of the old.
 "I protest against unnatural acts such as curtailment of production by the man. ufacturer to force lower wages on the employe or by strikes to force higher wages on the employer. The conditions must be produced and governed by the natural laws of commerce. I am decidedly in favor of union with all the under brush cleared out. Union that will help the people keep in work and secure the highest wages the business will stand. There Is not one right thinking man, whether union or non union, workman or associated manufacturer, but will agree