The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-04

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 no right to say how that Ia
Dor shall be used, but that the workman
shall say what he shall do, how he shall
40 II and when. These are the reasons
pure and simple, and the public-you
and must suffer inconvenience and
loss, and ultimately pay all the bills
for maintaining order by our city, coun-
ty or state authorities. 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-makars 1t is the
people who suffer and pay.
suppose the Union" flour millers go
on strike for rise from So to SIS a
day and tie up or blow up the mills
wages. That advance must be put on
the price Of -four and the people pay
it, and also pay all costs for sup
pressing the rioters.
So we see few men become avari-
ciouS for NJ Oney, 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 if the
unions" had their own way IN
checked. Is it not time the people
took steps to protect themselves from
this violent and grasping trust?
ALL JOIN
Suppose every one of US adopts the
Labor Union idea (labor trusD and by
combination force everyone 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 $40 a bushel, and picket,
ASA ult or kill the miller and blow up
3 I
+ less price of anyone but Union"
farmer.
Then the millers' union sets the
price of -four at S35 a barrel, and calls
! everyone ''sCab' that refuses to buy
-four 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
well as employers, would have to pay
4 about $1S a barrel extra on every
/ barrel of flour to the little labor trust
| of millers. Some one says, that's ex-
IRENE" 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 quash it.
Then let the water works Union"
set the price of 81 pail for drinking
water and boycott and assault the
family that uses its 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 (any
price they set goes for that's the
union rule) and the poor corpse whose
relatives can't borrow or beg the price
70 pay the Union must go without
! the privilege or be dumped into the
street and the hearse overturned If an
independent funeral be attempted.
OIL TRUST
The Oil Trust is peaceable organic
alton compared with the riotOus, AFRO
CANT and lawbreaking labor trust, a
menace to every citizen including the
upright members of the Unions them
selves.
Is a public contract. to be let, immed-
! lately a demand is made that only Our
! Union" be employed and receive the
peoples money and threats of all sorts
of political defeat and dire disaster are
made. Suppose a 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
public has foolishly cuddled these Labor
Unions until they have become diseased
and are a public menace and nuisance.
Everyone comedies the right of any
religious body, fraternal society, or a
labor union to set up rules for their own
guidance. but tiGy nave llO iASAL WiAdl-
soever to make laws for the control of
other people and when they interfere
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 as a needle turns to
the north pole.
Have a careful look at the stock and
see.
Il OPPOSE POLICE
When a manufacturer 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
4 general disorder. Then the police are