The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-12-10
TO RID C0UNlIRI
Of: TRADE =:UN|0N|SN
Novel Idea Suggested by Writ.
er too cowardly TO- Sign
':.>* His Name. =. =
Advocates Method to Rid Coun-
try of Evils Resulting
H.. !. from Unions. "

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Occasionally opponents of union
labor in their bitterness against
trade unionism say some very Of
fensive things, but the most silly and
abusive that has. come to our at
tention* is the following circular
without signature, and tinged with
anarchy throughout: =.
Trade Unions are bands of Men,
who inflict injury on those who fail
to accede to their 1awless demands:
1t is therefore the duty of the. people
to rid the country of trade unions.
Trade uniOnism is rarely dis
cussed; if it were, trade unions would
soon cease to exist. The trade union
lists carefully avoid discussing trade
unionism in their publications and
in their public utterances.
The trade: unionists assume that
lawless deeds are right if done by
themselves. The law that applies to
others should apply to them also.
There was a man in New York
City named Parks who extorted
money by threatening injury; he was
sent to prison for the crime. Other
trade unionists are extorting mill
lions of dollars annually by the same
means that Parks used, yet these
are let go at large. Parks took
| money as an individual, these. others
| as an organization. The laws says
that money got by injury to person or
property inflicted, threatened or i'm
piled is stolen, and whether the
money is taken by an individual or
by men banded together does not
| change the, crime.
An organization to the lawful must
| be composed Of voluntary member
ship. The great part of the men in
| unions are got there and kept there
| by force.
| The means used to compel men
to join the unions to keep them
there, are unfair, lists and enter
| tainment committees, labels and
brass knuckles, cards and lead pipe,
fines and sand bags, assessments
and wrecking crews, shot guns, torch
and dynamite. il"
| The law says men must be free to
buy, sell and use material that it is
J lawful to buy, sell or use; it also
\ says man must be free to pursue
his chosen vocation. These laws are
so just and so essential to the higher
development of the individual and to
the true growth of a nation that they
are believed in by all right minded
men. For this reason only the low
minded can, be got into the unions
except by force.
The trade unfonists demand that
the man must give them money to
pursue his vocation that boy must
give them money to learn a trade,
that a man must give them money
who buys@mate rial The use Of which
they have fprbid den, that q man must
discharge a boy who is learning a
trade under conditions different
from those which they permit: For
all this they have no authority in
law, so in order to enforce these
demands, they injury property, strike
| down men, or both. -
There never came before a people
a palmer proposition. than that Of
trade unionism. 1t is simply the
j question as to whether the laws made
by the regularly constituted law
making authorities are to prevail.
JOHNNY'S ESSAY ON THE HOG:
| The hog is called a hog b'cuz he
makes a hog Of himself. 1t runs in
the family. All hogs are hogs. The
| hog has two sides to his character,
one of which is good to eat, and the
other we can't so cordjully admire.
AS an article of diet the hog is one of
the warmest friends of the human
race that I know Of Most Of him is
good for food and the rest is useful
in making sausages, bristle brushes,
and other utensils. Nearly everything
about him is palatable but his voice.
The latter always seems to me as if
it had kind O. soured. It is said that
you can't make a silk purse out Of a
-er-h'-lady hogs ear. I have never
heard of any fool big enough to try to.
AS a citizen the hog is not so warm.
His manners and instincts are gross
in the extreme, and his sole ambition
pears to be to eat from early morn
till far in night. When a man is dead
he becomes the late Mr.. So-and-so. and
we say nice things about him. When
a hog is dead he is pork, and pa Oft
en- says: "Confound this, pork!' When
I eat too much pa calls me pig. A
pig is hogs little boy. This is all I
know about the hog.-London Tit
Bits.
| condition is better than ever before.
Local No. 46 contains about all the
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