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

APPRENTICES
They deny the right to young men to
learn trade This is to keep the sup
ply OF workmen scarce. make high
wages for the few, and drive all the
balance into poverty and perhaps crime !
by lack of chance to learn trade and
earn an honest living.
BREAK CONTRACTS
A few and very few instances, show
where Unions honor a contract when it
seems to their interest to break it. The /
wisely managed Brotherhood of Loco |
motive Engineers, has become justly
famous for its integrity in this respect, |
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 40 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 20 years.
They lend themselves to any sort of
crime they dare perpetrate to prevent
other Americans from earning a living.
They seek in every way to prevent
immigration when our farmers and
housewives 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 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 keep
/ ing down the output, Soldering and
doing as little work as possible. keep
ing out improved machinery and con-
Quoting 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 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
and direct every act of the people
| the common people, who are now
/ abused, tryanniZed over, and the cost
of their actual necessities increased by
strikes and labor troubles, in order to
foster the power of the leaders of the
trust. It 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 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.''
I A self-respecting American who has
any regard for the rights of his fellow
man, and for his own guarantee of
| freedom, 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-
| auctions to force them on the people,
but the high character of their work
| shows in the articles they produce
/ which sell better without z 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
anything with a union label on it.
SEAL OF SLAVERY
aged under diseased uniOnisn'' is the
seal of servitude and contribution to
the most arrogant and abusive trust
extant.
When self-respecting patriot
| thinks of the dem oniacial acts, indig-
mites and abuses heaped upon free
Americans, in forcing this modern
diseased unionism' upon them, in or
der to support 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
Citizens Association for mutual pro-
lection; band together and by public
sentiment and act protect your citizens
in their freedom to work when and for
whom they please, and the freedom
of merchants to sell to whomsoevcr
desires to buy. despite any union"
orders.
TRAITORS
If any merchant is coward enough to
refuse to help defend his city and her
people, preferring to ickspittle for the
tyrannous Unions don't boycott him.
just let the public know it and he will
quickly find that IS per cent of the peo-
/ ple are not Union" and his coWdrdice
and traitorous attitude toward his
townspeople will bring its own reward.
Then have your Citizens Association
agree to support and protect your in
dustries in continuous activity. partic-
uIarly when the Unions" try to shut
them down and thus seek to ruin the
! town.
Some, yes many, towns have suffered
untold loss from being ''unionized" and
in such it is easy for the citizens to
I form their associations for protection,
z for they have seen the necessity Let
other towns that have not yet been
through the fire take warning and act
. in time for no epidemic of disease can
do the financial harm to a town that is
sure to come from diseased unionisn
= well started with the certain following
, of strikes, disorder, assaults, destruction