The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-04
Proclamation of Freedom

why have the people come to de-
 spise the very term Tabor unionr
 The feeling seems universal and is
 bslq ss more tan hsf of the ana
 willing members of. the unions.
 Statistics show about ten 'unioon"
 members to every eight hundred citi-
 takes to rule the rest of us and if 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
 dren of Dukes. Earls or the idle rich and we have an inborn sympathy for and a desire to help along every hon. est peaceable workman. So mer- chants, manufacturers and all sorts of employers 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 be- come more emboldened and intoxicated with power.
 WANT TROUBLE.
 They must make trouble in order to feed their vanity by seeing themselves show the union" that hires them that there's something doing" So they order about, interfere with business, 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 with the sacred. rite of burial of the dead. They have the impudence to in terfere in any and every act of life. demanding that all movements be made A h ..sat tlxa A VI Their continued abuses and Interference with the rights of citizens has so out ragged the people, that they not only detest the name labor union" but are and emphatic measures to stop these outrages, and stop this interference with the movements of the common people.
 PEOPLE ANNOYED.
 When a man wants to go to business CT car he doesn't want to be told the unions have tiled up the line." When
 he relies for his dinner on having the meat, bread and vegetables delivered, l it doesn't set at all well to lose his din- ner because the unions have 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 bies 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
 hoot him, and boycott the paint dealer and grocer that sells him goods. A sudden leak of water pipe IS l flooding his house and destroying his
 property. but the rules of the plumbers ,s union impose all sorts of penalties 1t he tries to help the trouble. So they interfere in all sorts of ways with the | liberty and freedom of the common | Ii. AaNE n yn 0 n an abject slave to the impudent ''or- ders" of the labor boss, and these labor unions know no limit to their exactions | and abuses so long as they have the go the full limit even to demandins | that the laws of the United States Gov ernment 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 l 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 fearful mustake or | lowing his head to the orders of the labor bosses and allowed them to put | on his neck Union Card before ne
 was allowed to lift trowel and lay 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 and impudent that 1t has cost | Chicago in losses to business, wages, | buildings, depreciation of real estate and destruction of property by nres set | by unions, literally hundreds of mil | lions of dollars and many lives. Is 1t any wonder the common people | are sick and tired of unions. They | ordered the little Colonel now In the | HT. to AIaChnTOa a nrinfaT hG- l cause he wouldn't join union and they | also ordered him not to ride on cef- | tain railroad that refused to obey | tkem, but they found there a wise and | the people, and not alone of the ten Tn | eight hundred or the one thousand who | seek to corner the labor market and
 shut out the eighty thousand who do
 He says: "when any labor union 1 seeks improper ends or seeks to achieve | proper ends by improper means all good | citizens and more especially all non l orable public servants must oppose the | wrong doing as resolutely as they | would oppose the wrong doing of any | great corporation. or course any Vlo, | fence, brutality or corruption should | not for one moment be tolerated"
 GENUINE TRUST. - But here we see a genuine trust, 8 1 labor trust, a combination to sell labor | and this arrogant trust proposes by 1 threats of violence to force people to l buy its commodity.
 | And why do they block progress, pre- | vent others from working. separate l 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 people?
 COST TO CITIZENS.
 | orE,ofnu1a In nFdaF ff force a few cents or dollars extra oui
 Then after they have forced theii labor on some firms. they refuse to dc and a strike occurs. a fight to see II | they can force the employer to let then do the work as they want to and moi
 as he requires 1t.
 liver goods where directed and commit
 ted all sorts of outlawry, because th' | employers hired men who would prop erly help them do business.
 man pays for ton of coal, anc before 1t Is delivered the labor trust
 issues orders that the coal shall not be
 touched The mechanics family Is colo
 and suffering, so he tries to deliver his
 own coal and Is slugged unconscious by the union labor trust committed.
 WHAT FORT
 | All this interference with the affairs
 of the people. the violence ana CT crimi, higher prices than the market rate ano next to show the men who buy lapol
 that they have no right to say how
 that labor shall be used; put 1i Lnal th' dn how he shall do it and when. These are the reasons pure and simple, anc inc public-you and must sunei
 ultimately pay all the bills