The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-20

ic strikes; third, no restriction of output or
of personal industry ard fourth. the full
enforcement OF the public laws. i think we
have gained our point as TO sympathetic
strikes and that We IN a fair way 10
make the open shop the rule in Chicago, II
We have not already done so. In ninety
cases out of every hundred we have won.
TO work in Chicago and possible for
his employer 10 hire him without fear Of
being boycotted otherwise injured in his
business"
DO you admit members to your asso-
citation who have the closed or union shop?'
10 come TO the support of such men II they
have trouble with organized labor and want
TO reform and join us.
Give me some idea of the extent or the
trade unions IN ChicagO?'
We have several hundred unions, re-
piled Secretary job. but l believe that
from 80 to 80 per cent. of their members are
involuntary ones. They have been forced
or coaxed into the unions, and afraid to
leave them. If / had the power of emanci-
patton President Lincoln had when he freed
the slaves, If / could send forth an edict
which would enable the members of the
trades unions of this country to desert the
ranks of organized labor without fear of
violence or ostracism, l firmly believe that
four-ifths of the trade unions would leave.
You will see that this is the case Mr..
Job continued, IF you watch any election
in which the labor vote constitutes an i'm
pOrtant element. That vote is never half
so large as anticipated.
'It is because the men voting as they
please secretly change their ballots and
because at heart they are sick of the
thralldom TO which they are yoked'
rs Chicago a dangerous place for
workingman who does not belong to a
union?"
TT has been so at times and 1 will not
say that ii is not so now under certain con-
ditions, replied Secretary Job. Il could
cite many instances of men who have been
assaulted and MANNED because they have
opposed the will of the unions, and some
in which men have been murdered. l have
heard of union meetings where men were
forced to assent to the doings of their lead
ers. and where they believed their lives
would be In danger II they did not. Ihere
have been many outrages on nonunlonists.
as. for instance. We had recently pub
lished case of a nonunion printer who was
thrown TO the floor by party of union en-
ployes in one of our saloons and the ques-
ton there debated whether il would be bet
ter to break the mans arms or his fingers
one by one. that he might be incapactated
for work. The police rescued that man.
Now, such things may not be done by
the leaders the better element of the
unions, but ] believe they are instigated by
them, and We have it alleged that there is
band of paid sluggers here who are used
as wrecking crews 10 commit acts of VIC
lence in behalf of organized labor. The
hospital records will verify this"
GIRL WITH GREEN SILK WAIST.
I'm what classes of labor do such condi-
tions obtain?' l asked.
"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 nounion 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 committee to assault her. Now
waist and this was the mark by which she
was known to the committee. She was fol-
lowed as she went home one day by the
members of the committee, and they re-
manned outside her house waiting to assault
her when she might come out. The house
in which she was living was a two-story
fiat and she had the UPPER apartment. After
a time girl in green waist appeared and
started down the street. 1t was about dusk
She had not gone far before the members
scratched and pummeled her to their taste
She objected strenuously and screamed
again and again, but it was some time be-
fore they learned that they had got the
wrong girl. Another green waist maid
lived in the lower fiat, and it was she who
came out first.
Yes continued Mr. Job, ''the women
are quite as bad in union matters the
men. Take, for instance. a strike which oc-
CURED in the pillow works at Springfield.
The union men left and nonuniOn work.
men were put in their places. Violence was
apprehended and the employers carried the
nonunion workmen home in closed cars
Some of the wives and female friends of the
strikers got in the cars on the plea of want
ing to ride, and after they were we'll on
their way they went for the nonunion men
with their hat pins They came near kill
ing one man whom they struck too near the
heart"
But such cases, Mr.. Job. should not be
charged to the unions said /. They are
merely the acts of hotheaded individuals"
Yes, you might think So. the
ply. Il know that the labor leaders claim
they do not counsel violence, but every one
here knows that is not true. / have in
cident in my mind now which L know to
have occurred, but which L do not want TO
locate. l won't say that ii was or was not
in Chicago: but IL in of the big
cities of the United States.
mo VIOLENCE! NO VIOLENCE!"
A street car strike was in progress, and
the leader of one of the striking unions
talked thus to his men:
Now, my man, remember, in the con-
duct of this strike want no violence,
No violencei Suppose. for instance you
should several joints of gas pipe lying
near the car track and some one suggested
that if the pipe was Joined and laid on the
track that end of il would touch
: the trolley wire and the other the rail-