The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-20

ibeifeved their lives WouHu " ih uahser IT they did not. There have been many out rages m non-unionists, as, for instance. we had recently a published case of a lnon-union printer who was thrown to the floor hv ! party of union employees in one of our saloons and the question there de- bated whether 1t would be better to break | the mans arms or his fingers one by one that he might be incapacitated for work. The police rescued that man.
 sNow, such things may not be done by the leaders or the better element of the unions. but believe they are instigated by them. and we. have 1t alleged that there Is a band of paid sluggers here who are used as wrecking crews to commit :, acts of violence in behalf of organized labor. The hospital records will verify this.''
 The Girl with the Green Silk Waist.
 .'In what classes of labor do such con- ditions obtain7" asked. l "They have obtained in almost every class" was the reply, land that even among the women trades unions. One odd case was that of a I1on-union girl in | a West Side factory, who was guilty of the heinous offense of wanting to earn her. living in her own way. The union girls wanted her to join them, but she
 would not, and they then appointed a | committee to assault her. Now, the non- | hthOH BAh WOkc II UAlGhe 8ANNh Sllk WdISts and this was the mark by which she vas known to the committee, She was fol- lowed as she went home one day by the members of the committee, and they re- mained outside her house waiting to as- sauit her when she might come out The l house in which she was living was two story flat and she had the upper apart 1 ment. After time girl in green | waist appeared and started down the | street. It was about dusk. She had not gone far before the members of the com mittee poupced upon her and scratched and pummeled her to their taste. She objected strenuously and screamed again and again, but it was some time before they learned that they had got the wrong the lower fiat, and it was she who came out first.
 The Fight of the Hat Pins. "Yes." continued Mir. Job, the women are quite as bad in union matters as the men. Take, for instance. strike which | occurred In the blow works at Spring field. The union men left and non-union workmen were put in their places. vio- lence was apnrehended. and the em- ployers carried the non-union workmen home in closed cars. Some of the wives and female friends of the strikers got in the cars on the plea of wanting to ride anu AIlCF LHcy WOTC WEI Vl IUelE way they went for the non-union men with their hat pins. They came near killing one man whom they struck too near the heart" s'No violencei No violencei' "But such cases, Mir. Job, should not be charged to the unions," said I. "They are merely the acts of hot-headed indi- viduals?"
 "Yes, you might think so," was, the re- ply 'FI know that the labor leaders claim they do not counsel violence. but every one here knows that 4s not true. I have an incident in my mind now which l know to have occurred. but which I do not want to locate. won't say that it was ST was not in Chicago; but it was in one of the big cities of the United States. A street car strike was in pro- gress, and the leader of one of the striking unions talked thus to his men:
 |" Now. my men. remember. in the con- duct of this strike. we want no violence! No violence! Suppose, for instance, you should see several joints of gas pipe ly- ing near the car track, and some one suggested that If the pipe was joined and laid on the track so that one end of it would touch the trolley wire and the other the rail, thereby forming connec- ton which would make a short circuit and burn out the trolley wire, uonI let any such act be laid to your doors
 !" Or if any one should tell you that you could wreck the underground cable by throwing rocks into the manholes- and I know there are piles of rocks near some of them-don't let such an Act be laid to your doors.
 "'Again, my men, some persons may tell you that if you throw in cement and sand and rock it will ruin, the track. Now, I understand there are warehouses near the track where there are barrels of cement, and you know very we'll if this is mixed with rock, sand and water it will harden, ahd If thrown into the manholes 1t will hold the cables. If you did that it might hurt the company. stop the cars and we might gain the strike, but, boys, we want no violence, no vio- fence. If any one does that let us see that 1t is not laid to our doors. I hope you have understood nae correctly ., What the Employers Association
 Has Done.
 But, Mir Job, do you think your em- ployers' association is really making mat ters better?'
 "We have done a great deal, sand we are going to do more. have told you we have given the non-union man the