The San Francisco call., 1904-12-18
TO OUR PATRONS AND THE GENERAL


~ C1Ae n AAND-NG AM AE1I1 oLANA%AA<AL
PUBLIC:
On the 1st of January 1904, in the San
Francisco daily papers, the public were ac-
quainted of our former years work relative
70 employer and employe. We called special
attention 10 the lawlessness Of many of the
union worlmen in California but more es-
pecially to the obnoxious walking delegate.
We claimed then, do now, that all men
have a right TO form a union for the benefits
honestly derived from the afhliaton of similar
trades coupled with fraternal organizations,
etc, but when labor unIonists say that men
cannot work beside them because they do not
belong to their union they are wrong funda-
mentally wrong. When they attempt to die
tate to employers how they shall run their
businesses. force honest business men into
bankruptcy. deny the Of an honest
chGnic the right to learn a trade thus prac-
tioally making tramp Of him unless he learns
a trade a convict in San Quentin; force
laws through the Legislature and ordinances
through the municipal governments which are
and hundreds Of fraternal organizations,
through fear. TO put 'tamale sign" (the
union iabeD on their printing; force men to
become IDLE and boycott men who will not
join them, then they are wrong. radically
wrong. We still adhere to the above state
ment.
This year has been the hardest and most
stubbornly contested of our lives. Day and
night we have, with our great force Of clerks
and the assistance of innumerable friends.
fought the moral lepers, the walking delegates
on behalf Of the great majority, who non
union men. Mothers and fathers without num-
ber have pleaded TO US on bended knees and
upifted hands 10 God to assist them. on be-
ldll OF their DOyS, to help open the SHOP,
whereby they could learn trade. The honest
workman. forced TO join unions against his
will pleaded with US TO continue in our work.
might work by the side Of his fellow
whether he or his fellow man belonged TO
labor unions. fraternal organizations, believed
in the same creed or went to the same church.
His desire was and Is now to uphold the con-
sutution of the United States. He knew well
THE RIGHT OF MAN TO LIVE is THE
RIGHT OF NAN TO WORK. With such
u continue IN the great work We had already
started viz: TO SEE THE SHOPS OPEN,
OF MAN WITHOUT THE INTERFERENCE
We had scarcely started this spring when
the holdups commenced. We will mention one,
viz. the United Railroads. On May / the
United Railroads asked our aid, which was
gladly given; Result; WE WON THE
ing the benefit thereby.
We saw the public unfolding our hand. and
Ready. entitled THE LABOR PRoBTaEM.'
Of which 10T, 900 copies have been distributed
throughout America, and the demand for them
to-day is as great as on the frst day OF pub
lication. The book portrayed by prose, poetry
and cartoons the injustice done to the great
masses in California especially in San Fran
cisco. No labor unions walking delegates
were spared, as we were determined that the
American boy should learn a trade in the city
town in which he resides and not in the
State prison. where the walking delegate
would rather see him go. The public demand
lnS Ite OEEN Sf1OH ana supporting US, we
pressed forward with strong, forceful. fair,
plain, explicit unequivocal determination,
sparing neither time nor expense to accomplish
that end. We foresaw millions of dollars be-
inc driven away from this city, we foresaw
our great city doomed to destruction, we fore
saw our homes being destroyed we foresaw
the freedom of churches passing away
foresaw the constitution OF the United
Stctes trampled and we foresaw in the
stand IL no longer and with a stroke of the
pen and the voice that has been ringing. is
now and will continue TO ring as long as God
lends us breath. we put bank account
with our determination. and during the past
year we have spent $4,000 that JUSTICE
SHALL PREVAIL and the RIGHT OF MAN
TO LIVE SHALL BE THE RIGHT OF MAN
TO WORK in the city of San Francisco and
the State Of California
In October of this year Herbert V.
Ready left his business and. with the assist
ance OF twenty-five OPEN SHOP advocates
went to the following thirty-eight cities:
Salt Lake, Omaha Pittsburg, Allegheny,
Kansas City, Chicago New York, Brooklyn,
Manhattan Providence, Syracuse, Lowell
New Orleans. San Antonio. Denver. St Jo-
seDh. Cincinnati St Louis. East st. Louis
Cleveland. Boston Toledo, Columbus Roch-
ester. New Haven, Houston. FL Paso Ogden
Philadelphia Erie. Buffalo Portland Jersey
City. Baltimore, Worcester, Paterson, Mem
phis. Galveston, seeking the assistance. not
or State, but OF every State in the Union
which possessed mechanics willing to come 10
California and work in the OPEN SHOP so
that the future of our great city and State
Of California should he proclaimed to the
world as a FREE STATE IN A FREE
COUNTRY. Thirty-nine thousand men have
signed applications Here is the application:
900