New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-04

Why have the people come 10 uesplse 'no
very term labor union?
The feeling seems universal and is held by
the great general public and by probably more
than half of the unwilling members of the
unions
Statistics show about ten union members
to every eight hundred citizens and this smali
minority undertakes to rule the rest or US anu
II we don't obey exactly and quickly they slug,
throw bricks. shoot, cut, dynamite. boycott anu
murder.
BORN WORKERS
Most all Americans were born of work people.
We know what it Is to work and work hard.
We are not children of Dukes. Earls or the idle
rich and we have an Unborn sympathy for ana
desire TO help along every honest, peaceable
workman. So merchants, manufacturers ana
all sorts of employers who used to work WIN
their hands and now work harder with their
brains to get together money TO pay to those
who work with their hands, have, with the
general public. borne patiently many acts Oh
tyranny and abuse until the union leaders have
become more emboldened and intoxicated with
power
WANT TROUBLE
They must make trouble in order TO feed their
vanity by seeing themselves discussed in the
papers, and also to show the Union that hires
them that there's something doing So they
order people about. interfere with business, stop
street and r. r. cars, building operations, de-
livery of goods, serving of meals, delivery or
bread meat or even milk necessary to Keep
babies alive, and we have been treated TO the
hOrrifying scene of their interfering with the
sacred rite Of burial of the dead. They have
the impudence TO interfere in any and every
act of Iife demanding that all movements be
made only according TO 1.-THE union rule Ihelr
continued abuses and interference with the
rights Of citizens has outraged the people,
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union" but are forced TO tnke up the most rig
orous and emphatic measures to stop these out
RACES and stop this interference with the move
ments of the common people.
PEOPLE ANNOYED
When man wants to go to business on
car he doesn't want to be told the unions nave
tied up the line" When he relies for his din
ner on having the meat, bread and vegetables
delivered, 1t doesn't set at all well TO lose bis
dinner because the unions" had tied up the
meat or bread supply. or the transfers union
slugged and driven off the new teamsters that
tried to deliver the goods. His baby needs milk
but the milk drivers union" has stopped the
supply Let a few of the d babies die,
some sacrifices must be made for the suprem-
acy of labor
He tries TO paint his own house ut spare
times but the painters union boot him. and
boycott the paint dealer and grocer that sells
him goods
house and destroying his propertys but the rules
OF the plumbers union impose all sorts of pen
alte6 if he tries to help the trouble. So they
interfere in all sorts of ways with the liberty
and freedoem of the common people, making
life burden and man an aDject slave TO the
impudent orders" of the labor boss, and these
labor unions know no limit TO their e1actlons
and abuses long as they nave power to rue
down the people. They go the full limit even to
demanding that the laws Of the L. s. Govt
give way to their rules.
A COSTLY BLUNDER
When Pres Mckinley came to lay the corner
stone Of the federal building in Chicago that
the unions had delayed FOR years and forced
thereon an unnecessary cost of some millions
Of dollars which had to be paid out OF the peck
cts of the common people, he made the fearful
mistake of bowling his head to the orders of
the labor bosses and allowed them to put on
his neck the yoke of q Union Card before he
was allowed to lift a trOwel and lay that cor
ner stone. Think of it. The chief Executive
of this govt made to step down from his emf
nent position and allow union boss to sit there
and issue orders That one act made the
labor unions drunk with power and impu-
dent that it has cost Chicago in loses to bust
ness. wages buildings, depreciation of real es
tate aud destruction of property by fires set
by unions, literally hundreds or millions Of dol
lars and many lives.
Is it any wonder the common people are sick
and tired of unions" They ordered the little
Colonel now in the White House to discharge
q printer because he wouldn't join union and
they also ordered him not to ride on GER
tain r. II. that refused to obey them, but they
found there a wise and brave man, the real
Executive Of all the people and not alone of
the ten in eight hundred the one thousand
who seek TO corner the labor market and shut
out the eighty thousand who do not.
He SAYS: when any labor union seeks inn
proper ends or seeks to achieve proper ends by
improper means all good citizens and more eS-
lII- oil bOnOrn bile
pose the wrong doing as reSolutely they
would oppose the wrong doing of any great cor
poration OF course any violence brutality or
corruption should not for one moment he toll
Grated"
GENUINE TRUST
But here we see genuine trust, labor trust.
combination 10 sell labor, and this arrogant
trust proposes by threats Of violence to force
people to buy its commodity.
And why do they block progress, prevent
others from working, separate themselves from
other citizens, hate every not in their
union boycott and threaten, conduct them
selves as bandits and outlaws and commit all
sorts of crimes TO force themselves and their
e-sded ideas upon people?
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 di-
rected by the employer and alstrike occurs. a
fight to see if they force the employer TO
let them do the work they want TO ana not
as he requires It.
The Chicago teamsters refused to deliver
goods where directed and committed all sorts
of outIaWry because the employers hired men
who would properly help them do business
A mechanic pays for Il ton of coal and before
II is delivered the labor trust issues orders that
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