The San Francisco call., 1905-05-08

Why have the people come to despise
the very term Tabor union?"
The feeling seems universal and is
held by the great general public and by
probably more than half of the unwill-
ing members of the unions.
Statistics show about ten union"
members to every eight hundred citi-
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 chill
dren of Dukes, Earls or the idle rich
and we have an Unborn sympathy for
and a desire to help along every hon.
est, peaceable workman. So merchants.
manufacturers and all sorts of en-
ployers who used to work with their
hands and now work harder with their
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 intoxicated with
power.
WANT TROUBLE
They must make trouble in order to
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 bust
ness. stop street and R. r. cars. build
ing operations, delivery of goods. serv-
ing 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 interfer-
ing with the sacred rite of burial OF
the dead They have the inpudence
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 interfer-
ence with the rights of citizens has so
outraged the people, that they not only
detest the name labor union but are
forced to take UP the most rigorous
and emphatic measures Nto stop these
outrages, and stop this interference
with the movements of the common
people.
PEOPLE ANNOYED
When a man wants to go to business
on a car he doesn't want to be told the
unions have "tied UP the line" When
he relies for his dinner on having the
meat, bread and vegetables delivered,
it doesn't set at all well to- lose his din
ner because the unions" had tied up
the meat or bread supply. or the team
sters' union slugged and driven off the
new teamsters that tried to deliver the
goods. His baby needs milk but the
milk drivers union has stopped the
supply. Let 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
boots him, sand boycott the paint deal
er and grocer that sells him goods.
A sudden leak of a water pipe is
flooding his house and destroying his
property but the rules of the plumbers
union impose all sorts of penalties If he
tries to help the trouble. So they inter-
fere in all sorts of ways with the lib
erty. and freedom of the common peo-
pie, making life a burden and man an
abject slave to the inpudent 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 demanding that the
laws of the q. S. Govt give way to
their rules
A COSTLY BLUNDER
When President Mckinley came to
lay the corner stone of the federal
building in Chicago (that the unions
had delayed for years and forced there
on an unnecessary cost of some mil
lions Of dollars which had to be paid
out OF the pockets of the common peo-
ple) he made the fearruI mistake of
bowling his head to the orders of the
la Dor bosses and allowed them to put
on his neck the yoke of q Union Card
before he was allowed to lift a trowel
and lay that cornerstone. Think of 1t.
The chief executive of this Government
made to step down from his eminent
position and allow union boss to sit
there and issue ORDERS" That one act
made the labor unions so drunk with
power and impudent that it has cost
Chicago in losses to business, wages.
buildings. depreciation of real estate
and destruction of property by fires set
by unions literally hundreds OF mil
lions of dollars and many lives
Is 1t any wonder the common peopIe
are sick and tired of unions? They
ordered the little colonel now In the
White House to discharge a printer be-
cause he wouldn't join union and
Trey also ordered him not to ride on a
certain railroad that refused to obey
them, but they found there a wise and
brave man, the real executive of all
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 to achieve
proper ends by improper means all
good citizens and more especially all
honorable public servants must oppose
the wrong doing as resolutely as they
would oppose the wrong doing OF any
great corporation. OF course, any vio-
lence. brutality 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
everyone 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 peop]s7