The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-10

there are literally hundreds of thou
sands of decent American workmen, alb
solutely forced to bear the disgrace and
1Snominy of the CALLING yoke of union
ism, because of the hated tyranny of
the others.
Every American of the right sort is a
workman. either with brain or hand, or
better yet with both, and in the mind
of each is a fundamental deep, seated
respect for the able, competent, thrifty.
and peaceable worker, and CORE
spending dislike and antipathy to the
arrogant and violent pretender of the
other class.
The second class named, are for the
time being forced to stand the denun-
Citations of the public against labor
unions, for they are in sad company,
which has brought disgrace upon the
name of unions, so there seems no way
but for the decent men to stand it until
in some way they can obtain control,
and make the old or new unions, which
they may form, lawful, respectable and
worthy of the esteem of the public.
We are on record as being friends
and well wiSnerS of the second class
named, and as thoroughly and unalter-
ably opposed to the law breakers, GRIM
inals and DULLES of the other class, so
when union men denounce and revile
us, it is easy to determine in which
class they belong.
The union men in the first class are
genuine and undeniable anarchists
aliens and outlaws.
Let us analyze and see.
When a strike occurs, they picket
plants, threaten people. assault men,
dynamite property, boycott and even
murder. they are criminals and opposed
to all law.
An anarchist is one opposed to law
When police or the military are called
in to preserve the peace, and protect the
common people, do these men welcome
and uphold them? They do not, but
hasten to protest" and do all in their
power to remove them, so they can
carry out their acts of violence and law
breaking.
They favor no law but their won, and
that is the true hall mark of an An
archist pure and simple.
Someone says we are harsh in our de-
scription of these men. We are not re-
sponsible for their character and acts.
They do these things regardless of any
one, and the only way the public can
fairly judge them is to know the facts.
1t is this class of union men who have
placed a boycott on our products, in
trying to force us to join their lawless
ranks, and ruin some publishers, and
they are the ones who propose to pun
ish Mr.. Post for fearlessly telling the
facts about them and their methods.
A man with family of children to
support was kept out of work by a
strike in Chicago. The family would
ey to buy them bread.
God Almighty has instilled in the
mind of every man, worthy the name.
desire to work and furnish bread and
clothing for his little ones. but in this
case the labor union said he must not.
GODS motive was the strongest, he
broke the rules of the union and went
to work.
They caught him one evening on the
street, knocked him down with brass
knuckles, kicked him unconscious, then
pried his mouth open. and poured car
bolic acid down his throat
Another man who was forced to work
to support his family was met and the
strikers put their fingers in his eyes
gouged one of them out until it hung
on his cheek Are these the only cases
of outrage?
Hundreds of acts equally Infamous
are repeated from day to day. daring
strikes conducted by lawless and crimi-
nal members of labor unions
Decent people read with horror the
tales of distress, women attacked and
sometimes stripped on the street, (St
Louis St. car strike). workmen blown
to pieces with dynamite, men assaulted
mobs formed. millions of dollars worth
of property destroyed, many lives lost
and a general reign of terror disorder
and anarchy conducted by the labor
trust, in trying to force the balance of
mankind to obey, without question the
mandates of the leaders OF the Unions