The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-05

as shown by the court ordering the
| Union books and records examined.
4 This is but one of hundreds of cases
| in the courts in the last 20 years.
They lend themselves to any sort
| of crime they dare perpetrate to pre-
| vent other Americans from earning a
| living.
They seek in every way to prevent
/ immigration when our farmers and
house wives need help most seriously.
They encourage workmen to do as
| little as possible.
They put the botch workman (if he
belong to the Union) on the same
| wages as the skilled mechanic.
! They continually seek means to
stop work, harass those who pay Ia
| Dor and have ruined countless enter
prises that formerly brought money
and prosperity to communities.
RUIN TO ENGLAND
| The Union plan has been so eff
| fectively conducted in England, by
keeping down the output soldering
and doing as little work as possible,
| keeping out improved machinery and
| conducting all industries under Union
rule that other countries have taken
the business and we see a tremendous
army of unemployed all over Eng
land now crying for work and bread
which their union" rules have driven
| away.
The Union will produce the same
| conditions here if they are not curbed.
| They have driven away millions of
! dollars 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 do
inmate and direct every act of the
| people-the common people, who
are now abused, tyrannized over, and
| the cost of their actual necessities
| increased by strikes and labor
| er of the leaders of the trust. 1t must
be curbed and no time should be lost.
| Question, how?
| a REMEDY
First let every citizen refuse to hui
initiate himself by joining the nefrious
| boycott in any case, and remember
| 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
1 any regard for the rights Of his fell
| low man, and for his own guarantee
! of freedom, will remember that many
|
| can workmen are not union men and
do not require a union label on their
productions to force them on the peo-
pie, but the high character of their
! work shows in the articles they pro-
duce which sell better without a
union LABEL than with it, This is
true of hats, shoes, clothing and the
great variety of human necessities.
The arrogance and impudence of
the proclamation of the Unions, ''buy
| only of us, all else is bad" has driven
| hundreds of thousands of the best
class of buyers to refuse to prostitute
themselves to these union orders"
and they decline absolutely to buy any
| thing with a union label on it.
SEAL OF SLAVERY
Remember the union label as man
aged under diseased unionism" is the
seal of servitude and contribution to
| the most arrogant and abusive trust
extant.
When a self-respecting patriot
! thinks of the demoniacal acts, indigni-
| ties and abuses heaped upon free
! Americans, in forcing this modern
diseased unionism" upon them, in or
der to support a few trust leaders
| (alias labor leaders) it makes the
blood boil and the good old fathers
/ spirit of freedom and justice arise and
demand of us that we use the sternest
measures to free our people from this
new and hated form of tyranny
| ORGANIZE TOWNS
The next step toward freedom is for
each city, town and hamlet to form a
| Citizens Association for mutual pro-
| lection; band together and by public
! sentiment and act protect your citi-
Zens in their freedom to work when
and for whom they please, and the
freedom of merchants to sell to whom :
csTaa n fNe.fVf to nnxy
union" orders.
| TRAITORS
If any merchant is coward enough
to refuse to help defend his city and
her people, preferring to lickspittle
for the tyranous Unions" don't boy
colt him, just let the public know i,
and he will quickly find that So per
cent of the people are not Union
and his cowardice and traitorous at
titude toward his towns-people will
bring it's own reward Then have
| your Citizens Association agree to sup
port and protect your Industries in
continuous activity, particularly when
the Unions" try to shut them down
and thus seek to ruin the town.
Some, yes many towns have suffer
ed untold loss from being "unionized
and in such it is easy for the citizens
| to form their associations for protec-
ton, for they have seen the necessity
! Let other towns that have not yet been
| through the fire take warning and acl
in time for no epidemic of disease car
do the financial harm to a town thai
is sure to come from diseased union
ism" well started with the certain fol-
lowing of Strikes disorder, assaults
destruction of property and loss OF
business.
UNION MEN JOIN
Let the peaceabe Union men joir
with the other citizens so that they
cannot be tyrannized by their leaders
or the anarchists and socialists.
There are many Unions so unlawful
and ugly that even the national labor
organizations deplore their existence
and sometimes withdraw their char
! ters. but this great movement by citi-
| zens to protect themselves does not
necessarily mean the destruction oil
all Unions
MUST BE CURBED
1t is absolutely demanded by public
] policy that they be strongly curbed
| and held to strict observance of the
/ law. When they boycott intimidate
or conspire lin restraint of trade lei
! the Citizens Associations lawyers pro-
| coed against and punish them under
the existing laws and let public senti-
| ment be SO pronounced and OutSpoken