The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-04
Proclamation Of Freedom

Why have the people come to de-
splse the very term Labor union p
The feeling seems universal and IS /
held By the great general pubiic ana
by probably more than half of the IN
willing members of the unions.
Statistics show about ten union
members to every eight hundred cid-
zens and this small minority under
takes to rule the rest of US and II we
don't obey exactly and quickly they
slug. throw bricks, shoot, cut, dyna- /
mite boycott and murder.
BORN WORKERS
Most all Americans were born OF
work people We know what it is to
work and work hard. We are not
children of Dukes Earls or the idle
rich and we have an inborn sympathy
for and q desire to help along every
honest, Deaceable workman So mer-
chants, manufa cturers and all sorts of
employers who used to work with
their hands and now work harder with
tn cir brains to get together money to
pay to those who work with their
hands, have, with the general public,
borne patiently many acts of tyranny
and abuse until the union leaders have
become more emboldened and intoXi-l
Gated with power.
WANT TROUBLE
ney must make trouble III OI0tt "
feed their vanity by seeing themselves
discussed in the papers, and also to
show the Union" that hires them that
there's something doing" So they
order people about, interfere with
business stop street and r. R. cars,
building operations. delivery Of goods,
serving of meals, delivery of bread,
meat, or even milk necessary to keep
babies alive, and we have been treated
to the horrifying scene of their inter-
70, of burial
of the dead They have the impudence
to interfere in any and every act of
life. demanding that all movements be
made only according to the union
rule Their continued abuses and in
reference with the rights of citizens
has so outraged the people, that they
not only detest the name labor union
but are forced to take IN the most
rigorous and emphatic measures to
stop these outra ges, and stop this in
reference with the movements of the
common people.
PEOPLE ANNOYED
When a man wants to go to bust
ness on a car he doesn't want to be
told the unions have tied UP the line.
When he relies for his dinner on hav-
ing the meat, bread and vegeta bles de-
livered, it doesn't set at all well to lose
his dinner because the unions" had
tied I'D the meat or bread supply, or
the teamstrs' union slugged and driven
off the new teamsters that tried to de-
| liver the goods His baby needs milk
but the milk drivers union has
stopped the supply. Let a few of the
d babies die, some sacrifices must
be made for the supremacy of labor
He tries to paint his own house at
spare times, but the painters union
boot him. and boycott the paint dealer
and grocer that sells him goods.
A sudden leak of water pipe is
/ flooding his house and destroying his
/ property, but the rules of the plumb
ers' union imposes all sorts Of penalties
/ if he tries to help the trouble So they
/ interfere in all sorts of ways with the
liberty and freedom of the common
people, making life burden and man
an abject slave to the impudent
1 ORDERS of the labor boss, and these
labor unions know no limit to their
exactions and abuses SO long as they
have power to ride down the people
! They go the full limit even to demand
/ ing that the laws of the United states
government give way to their rules.
A COSTLY BLUNDER
When President Mckinley came to
lay the corner stone of the federal
! building in Chicago Chat the unions
had DELAYED for years and forced
| thereon an unnecessary cost of some
millions of dollars which had to be paid
out of the pockets of the common peo-
ple) he made the fearful mistake OF
!
the labor bosses and allowed them to
put on his neck the yoke of a Union
/ Card before he was allowed to lit
/ a trowel and lay that corner stone.
Think of it. The chief executive of
this government made to step down
from his eminent position and allow a
union boss to sit there and issue
/ ORDERS That one act made the
labor unions so drunk with power ana
impudent that it has cost Chicago IN
4 IncCaC to business wages, DuliQllES,
depreciation of real estate and de-
struction Of property by fires set by
unions, literally hundreds Of millions
of dollars and many lives.
Is it any wonder the common people
are sick and tired of unions. They
! ordered the little colonel now IN the
white house to discharge printer be
! cause he wouldn't join a union and
they also ordered him not to ride on a
certain railroad that refused to obey
them, but they found there wise and
! brave man, the real executive OF al
the people and not alone of the ten in
eight hundred or the one thousand
who seek to corner the labor market
and shut out the eighty thousand who
do not.
He says: when any labor union
seeks improper ends or seeks 70
achieve proper ends by improper
means all good citizens and more es-
peciany all honorable public servants
must oppose the wrong doing as
resolutely as they would oppose the
wrong doing of any great corpora
ton. OF course, any violence. 'bru-
tality or corruption should not for one
moment be tolerated.
GENUINE TRUST
But here we see genuine trust. a
labor trust, a combination to sell labor,
and this arrogant trust proposes by
threats of violence to force people to
buy its commodity.
And why do they block progress, pre-
| vent others from working, separate
themselves from other citizens, hate ev-
! eryone not in their union, boycott and
threaten, conduct themselves as bandits
and outlaws and commit all sorts of
| crimes to force themselves and their
one-sided ideas upon people?
! COST TO CITIZENS