The San Francisco call., 1905-05-08
Proclamation Of Freedom

been no disorder by the man who buys
| labor. 1t is only caused by the men
who have labor to sell and who be-
come outlaws and bandits under the
( leadership of anarchists. The police are
hired by the peoples money TO protect
j the community, but when these peace
! officers appear do the unions show gen.
+, uine American citizenship and that de-
! sire for peace and the maintenance of
| the peoples laws that marks the true
man and patriot? Never! They hiss
and stone the police, shoot them when
| they dare, and when whipped into a
semblance of decency loudly protest In
every possible way against the presence
| of police, sheriffs, militia or regulars.
! Why? Only one reason-they want to
commit grimes and hate anything or
any one that checks them.
MILITIA MEMBERS
Are discharged from the unions You
see here the same criminal instinct al
lied in opposition to the peoples pro-
tectors. Why do they want the militia
broken up?-so they can riot and burn
at pleasure.
ANTI-INJUNCTION BILL
This has been pushed hard before
Congress by the labor leaders 1t is
lsbill to take away from the courts any
right to issue restraining order 10
prevent the commission Of crime. Tn
der the present wise laws for the pro-
lection of life and property, when II
seems clear that striking union men.
bandits and outlaws plan to attack
other men or destroy property the
court can issue an order or injunction
commanding them to desist or re1raln
! from doing such unlawful act. Tnls
has been a great preventive OF crime
and can never harm any peaceable per-
son, but the unions have the ap-
palling irnpudence to ask Congress to
i pass a bill to tie the hands of every
court and thus allow the union strikers
+, full sway to assault, dynamite, burn
and destroy without hindrance. Does
| the anarchist spirit show?
UNIONS PROTECT CRIMINALS
When union men are caught assault
| ing. burning or in murder, whose
| money protects them? Union funds.
| Are their minds in favor of the law or
| of the lawbreakers?
I After you have decided whether this
| good-sized body of union members
| have the criminal mind or not. have
! look at their steady efforts TO stop
progress and natural growth.
APPRENTICES
They deny the right to young men to
| learn trade. This is to keep the sup
| ply of workmen scarce, make nlgn
wages for the few and drive an .ne
| balance into poverty, and perhaps
| crime. by lack of chance TO learn
trade and earn an honest living
BREAK CONTRACTS
| few and very few instances show
| a contract WnGQ III
seems to their interest to break IT.
| The wisely managed Brotherhood OF
| Locomotive Engineers has become just
! ly famous for its integrity In this re-
| spect: also the Typographical Union,
| but the great majority have shown
! themselves entirely unworthy.
PERJURY
| In one case in a court in Ohio up
wards of forty union men swore falsely,
! as shown by the court ordering the
union books and records examined.
| This Is but one of hundreds of cases
in the courts in the last twenty years.
! They lend themselves to any sort of
crime they dare perpetrate to prevent
other Americans from earning living.
| They seek in every way to prevent
| immigration when our farmers and
housewives need help most seriously.
| They encourage workmen to do as
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little as possible.
They put the botch workman Qf he
belong to the union) on the same
wages as the skilled mechanic.
They continually seek means to stop
| work, harass those who pay labor and
have ruined countless enterprises that
formerly brought money and prosper
! ity to communities.
/ RUIN TO ENGLAND
The union plan has been so effect
lively conducted in England by keeping
down the output soldering" and do
| ing as little work as possible, keeping
out improved machinery and conduct
ing all industries under union rule that
other countries have taken the business
/ and we see tremendous army OF ''un-
employed" all over England now cry
/ ing for work and bread which their
.'union" rules have driven away.
The unions will produce the same
conditions here if they are not curbed'
They have driven away millions OF dol
lars worth OF work in the past two
! years by their eternal fight against
progress. They stop work and tie UP
| industry on the slightest pretext.
DANGER TO PEOPLE
| If this trust be allowed to grow and
increase in strength it will dominate
/ ana Q1Tecl. eNcIy dcl u thc pcoPiC-
the common people, who are now
! abused, tyrannized over. and the cost
I OF their actual necessities increased by
! strikes and labor troubles. in order to
foster the power OF the leaders Of the
trust. 1t must be curbed and no time
| should be lost.
A REMEDY
! First, let every citizen refuse to hu-
initiate himself by Joining the nefari-
| GUS boycott in any case, and remem-
Der the union boycott takes a form
called the union label by which the
unions say: Don't buy anything ex-
cept that which we make. Boycott
whatever is made by independent
workmen."
A self-respecting American who has
any regard for the rights of his fellow
! man and for his own guarantee of free
dom will remember that many Of the
| finest and most skillful American
workmen are not union men and do not
require union label on their pro-
! ductions to force them on the people
| but the high character of their work
shows in the articles they produce
which sell better without union la