The San Francisco call., 1905-05-08

COST TO CITIZENS
They become criminals in order to
force a few cents or dollars extra out
of the public.
Then after they have forced their
labor on some firms, they refuse to do
the work as directed by the employer
and aS6trike occurs, a fight to see if
they can force the employer to let them
dc the work as they want to and not
as he requires 1t.
The Chicago teamsters refused to de-
liver goods where directed and COM
mitted all sorts of outlawry, because
the employers hired men who would
properly help them do business.
A mechanic pays for a ton of coal
and before it is delivered the labor
trust issues orders that the coal shall
not be touched. The mechanics fam
lily Is cold and suffering, so he tries to
deliver his own coal and is slugged un-
conscious by the union labor trust
committee"
WHAT FOR?
All this interference with the affairs
of the people, the violence and GRIM
inal ugliness is first to sell labor at
higher prices than the market rate, and
next to show the men who buy labor
that they have not right to say how
that labor shall be used, but that the
workman shall say what he shall do.
how he shall do~it and when. These
are the reasons, pure and simple, and
the public-you and must suffer in
convenience and loss, and ultimately
pay all the bills, for maintaining or
der by our city, county or State author
tiles, the total cost Of prosecuting the
criminals and on top of all that, We,
the public must pay whatever raise in
wages is made TO buy off the trouble
makers. 1t is the people who suffer
and pay.
Suppose the union" -four millers go
on strike for a raise from So to S. a
day and tie up or blow up the mills,
and finally SECURE the advance In
wages? That advance must be put on
the price of flour and the people pay
it, and also pay all costs for suppress
ing the rioters.
So we see few men become avari-
cious for money, form a labor trust,
and by coercion force the rest of the
people in the United States to submit
to the impudence and arrogance and
also pay all the bills. There would be
no limit to the abuse il the unions
had their own way unchecked. Is 1t
not time the people took steps to pro-
tect themselves from this violent and
grasping trust?
ALL JOIN
Suppose every one Of us adopts the
labor-union idea Qabor trust), and by
combination force every one else that
doesn't belong to our union to buy
what we have to sell at our price, or
slug the life out of them?
Let the farmers union set the price
of wheat at $50 bushel and picket,
assault or kill the miller and blow up
his mill If he tries to buy wheat at less
price of any one but union"
farmer.
Then the millers' union sets the price
of flour at ss5 a barrel. and calls
every one "scab' that refuses to buy
flour with the union LABEL on, and
turns over the wagons. kills the horses
and beats the drivers of any ''scab'
miller. Then everybody, workmen as
We'll as employers, would have to pay
about SIS a barrel extra on, every barrel
of flour to the little labor trust of mill
ers. Some one says, that's extereme.
1t is not, but is exactly what would
happen if that particular union got
power enough. You see the only limit
to the avariciousness of a labor trust
is set by the people at large, when
they are abused long and hard enough
to rise and uuash it.
Then let the water-works union" set
the price of 81 pail for drinking
water and boycott and assault the
family that uses it's own well water.
You are no friend of the union man
if you don't drink union water"
Finally the undertakers' union
fixes the price OF a burial at $3.50 (apy
price they set goes" for that's the
union rule), and the poor corpse whose
relatives can't borrow or beg the price
to pay the union" must go without
ha 1trr>, v>ax1 ;x,fr 1,n
street and the hearse overturned IL an
independent funeral be attempted.
OIL TRUST
The oil trust is peaceable organiza-
tion, compared with the riotous, arro-
giant and lawbreaking labor trust, a
menace to every citizen, including the
upright members of the unions them
selves.
Is public contract to be let. imme-
diately q demand is made that only
our union" be employed and receive
the peoples money and threats Of all
sorts of political defeat and dire dis
aster are made Suppose q quarry
trust should demand that no other
stone be used or the steel trust make
similar demand and actually tie up the
work to enforce orders?
What a. howl would go up. but the
unions until they have become dis
eased and are public menace ana
nuisance.
Every one comedies the right Of any
religious body, fraternal society or a
labor union to set up rules for their
own guidance. But they have no right
whatsoever to make laws for the control
of other people, and when they inter
fere and force their presence where
they are not wanted they should be
locked up and prosecuted.
These labor union manipulators and
some members of unions are out and
out anarchists and dangerous enemies
to the public
Their minds turn to anarchy or mo
law" just as true ASA needle turns to
the north pole.
Have careful look at the stock and
see.
OPPOSE POLICE
when a manufactures cannot afford
to pay the price asked for labor the
unions, in order to force him, go on a
strike. picket, boycott. riot and set up
general disorder. Then the police are
called in to preserve peace. There has