The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-18
business and not meddle in that

business and not meddle in that Of ours"
 "Oh. but you must stop those scabs from working or the union will ruin you. They. are going to run things in Bessemer hereafter"
 "Au right. You can run on."
 manly S@ look Ei ing SH man appeared at the office and inquired for us. We ac- knoweldged our Identity and asked him how we could serve him; He rspihiedt p,ht we were unfair" and he had come to see if the matter could not be settled without a resort to harsh measures We He said he was President of the Bes- tinued we have never had the hon. you. Do you live here7 Yes. he said he had been in Bessemer six months.
 And in that time, we remarked. you have risen to the hgn PEsin Pnien o Wbae
 "scabs are being employed on build ing you are erecting We WI wish ssoIed them } Well, friend, that job was let to con. tractor Fred Jay-turn key job. If you are interested in the men he em- "No. Sir: the building Is yours and you must have him discharge those scabs and employ union men or we will
 aAil right, sir. The door is right there. You and such as you are gan go to Halifax for aught we care, You seem to be headed directly there: ham Trades Council and the Birming.. ham Builders Council and some or those other new new 5andiangied af1aars nannrs that they had put a ban or boycott on us, and soon committees from Birm- ingham came down and notified mer- chants and others doing business with us to take their advertising out of The Bessemer Weekly. and quit doing bus. iness with this office or they would put their ''union trade" Several of them trembled in their shoes. said they would do 1t, and stopped their advertisements | and business.
 This is an incident of what these l unions call unfair" A citizen can't let contract to the | lowest and best bidder except with the | consent of the union; he can't employ | his own brother or neighbor If he be | the best carpenter in the world, unless he belongs to some union or joins some l union, without being subject to attacks l or anathemas of some union.
 Of course this sort of thing may do I with the ignorant, narrow minded ana country any great length of time with real white people; those who possess l much self respect.
 It didn't go down in the incident quot
 ed, though the president of the Besse- mer carpenter's union seems to have vamosed about as mysteriously as he
 came, as we have never seen or heard
 of him since. It won't go down with
 really good people. and though some
 of our friends told us that we had | killed ourselves in Bessemer because | we didn't yfeld to the demands of the union, we still live. and have outlived
 several of them already and expect to
 outlive several others of them
 So 10000 bridge workmen. whose
 wages run, we understand from $3.50
 to s per day. have, quit work because
 the American Bridge Company let
 the lowest and best bidder. and the
 unions say it's unfair" because the
 company didn't accept their dictation.. I We trust the company will have the
 spirit and independence to teach the strikers a lesson. They should bow 1 low and humble themselves before that
 company should ever again give them l endowment