The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1905-05-04

, en-, conduct themselves as bandits and
outlaws and commit an sorts Of crime TO
force themselves and their one-sded
ideas upon people?
COST TO CITIZENS
They become criminals IN order TO
force a few cents or dollars extra out
of the public
Thcn after ihey have forced their labor
on some firms they refuse to do the
work as directed by the employer and a
/ strike occurs. a fight 70 sec II they can
/ force the employer TO let them do the
work as they want TO and not as ne
requires g.
! The Chicago teamsters refused to de-
liver goods wnere directed and committed
AN sorts % outlawry because the em-
ployers hired men who w0ulc proper
/ iy help them do business.
] mechinlc pays for a ion OF coal. and
before it is delivered the labor trust
issues orders that the ccal shall not be
touched. 'rhc mechanics family is cold
and suffering SO he rrios TO deliver his
own cou and is sluggcd unconscious by
the 1mioa labor trust comuai
WHAT FoR7
All this Interference with the afIairs
/ of the people. the vioicnco ana criminal
uelihess is hrst 20 sell labor at higher
prices then the market rate and next
20 show the men who buy labor that they
have no right TO say how that labor
shall be used, but that the workman
,hal say what he shall Go. how he shall
do it and when. These are the reasons
lmre and simple Pnd the public--you and
/ must suffer Inconvenience and loss.
ana ultimately pay an she lills. for
maintaining order By our citt county
or state authorities the total cost Of
prosecuting the criminals, and on top
OF an that, We, the public, must pay
whatever raise in wages is made to buy
loff the trouble-malers. 1t is the people
who suffer and pay.
Suppose the Union" flour millers go
on strike for a raise tom 50 to s. a day
and tie UP or blow up the mills ami
finally secure thc advance In wages.
THAT advance must be put on the price
lof flour and the people pay Sc, ana also
Tray an costs for supp cssng the rioters
So we see few men become avari-
cious Tor money. from a labor trust. and
lby coercion force the rest II the people
IN the United States to submit to the
llmpudenoe and arrogance and also pay
iai. the bits There would be no limit to
The abuse if tho unions" had their own
way unchecked. Is it not time the peo-
pie took STEPS to protect themselves
from thls violent ana srasping trust2
Al JOIN
Suppose every one OF us adopt the
Labor Union idea Qabor trusO and by
combination force everyone else that
doesn't belong 70 our Union TO buy what
we have to SCH at our price. or slug tho
life out of them
Let the farmers union Sc. the price Of
wheat at $50 a bushel. ana picket assaul.
or kin the miller and blow an his mill
% he tries TO buy wheat at less price OF
anyone bur a "tInion' farmer.
'fhen the mlllers' union sots the price
OF flour az SS5 a barrel, and calls every
oue "scah' that refuses 10 buy flour
with the "Union Label on. and turns
ever the wagens. kills the horses and
ll'eats tho drivers of any "scab' miller
2 hen everybody. worlSmen as wcn as em-
ployers, would have 20 pay about SIS
a barrel extra on every barrel of flour
to the lttlo labor trust OF millers. some
one says, chats extreme II is not
hut Is exaody what would happen II that
particular union got power enough You
.ee tho only limit 10 the avariciouspess
of labor trust is set by the people AT
large when they are abused long ana
hard enough to rise and ql.ash It,
.Then let the water works rUuion" sel
the price OF 81 pail for drinking water
iand boycott ana assault the family that
uses its own well water. You are no
lfuend OF the Dnion man il you done
drink union water"
( Finally the undertakcrs' Union" fixes
tho price Of "a burial at $500 (any price
they set goes Tor that's the union
rulc) and the poor corpse whose relatives
can't borrow or beE the price 20 pay the
"tnion" must go without the privilege
/ or he dumped into the street and the
ihoarse overturned IL an Independent
funeral be attempted.
Iou TRUST
The on Trust Is "a peaceable organiza-
uon compared with the riotous, arrogant
1nd lawbreusns labor trust menace
10 every citizen including the upright
lluemoers OF the Unions themselves.
Is "a public contract to be lct. immedi-
lately "a demand rs made that only "Our
/ Union be employed and receive the
lpe1ples money and threats or AN sorts
political defeat and dire disaster are
made SUPPOSE "a quarry uust should
3 Gcmaud that 40 other stone bo used or
I the Steel Trust make similar dcmand and
iactuany ue up eae work TO enforce
orders.
What howl would go up, hut the
HuDiic has ioOlishlv cuddled these Labor