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

Unions honor contract when 1t seems to their ,
interest to break it. The wisely managed Broth
erhOod of Locomotive Engineers has become
justly famous for it's integrity in this respect
also the Typographical Union, but the great
majority have shown themselves entirely I'M
worthy.
PERJURY
In one case in a court in Ohio upwards 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 living.
They seek in every way TO prevent fmmIgra-
ton 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 prosperity TO communities.
RUIN TO ENGLAND
The Union" plan has been so effectively con-
Quoted 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 eoun-
tries have taken the business and we see ire
mendous 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 dollars worth of work i'm 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. tyrannized 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. 1t must be curbed and no |
time should be lost
Question, how?
A REMEDY
First let every citizen refuse to humilate him |
self by joining the nefarious boycott in any case.
and remember the union boycott takes a form /
called the union label" by which the unions |
say: 'Don'tsbuy anything except that which zee /
make Boycott whatever is made by indepen- /
dent workmen."
self-respecting American who has any re- |
gard for the rights of his fellow man, and for
his own guarantee of freedom will remember
that many of the finest and most skilful Ameri-
can wOrkmen are not union men and do not re-
quire union label on their productions TO force |
them on the people, but the high character of [
which sell better without union label than /
with it. This is true of hats, shoes, clothing |
and the great variety Of human necessities
The arg ance and impudence of the proclama- |
ton of the Unions, buy only Of us, all else is
bad has driven hundreds of thousands of the 1
best class OF buyers to refuse TO prostitute them
selves TO these union orders and they decline |
absolutely to buy anything with a union label
on it.
SEAL OF SLAVERY
Remember the union label as managed under
diseased unionism' is the seal of servitude and
to the most arrogant and abusive
trust eXtant.
When a self-respecting patriot thinks of the
demoniacal acts, indigniteS and abuses heaped
upon free Americans, in forcing this modern
diseased unicnism" upon them. in order to sup
port few tTGst leaders (alias labor leaders,. il
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 SteD toward freedom is for each city.
town and hamlet TO form Citizens Association
for mutual protection; band together and by
public sentiment and act protect your citizens i'll
their freedom to work when and for whom they
please and the freedom of merchants to sell TO
desires TO buy, despite any union
orders.
TRAITORS
If any merchant is coward enough 10 refuse
to help defend his city and her people preferring
to Hckspittle for the tyrannous Unions, don't 7
boycott him, Just let the public know it and he {
will quickly find that S. per cent of the people :
ire not Union and his cOwardice and traltorous
attitude toward his townspeople will bring It's I
own reward Then have your Citizens AsSoCla-
ton agree to support and protect your INDUS
tries in continuous activity. particularly when I
the Unions try 10 shut them down ana thus
seek to ruin the town.
Some YES many towns have suffered untold
loss from being "unonized' and in such il is l
Easy for the citizens To form their associations
for protection. for they have seen the necessity.
ct other towns that have not yet been through
The fire take warming and act In time for no cpl
lemic of disease can do the financial harm 70 q I
own that is sure to come from diseased union I
sm" we'll started, with the certain following OF
strikes disorders assaults, destruction OF prop
arty and loss of business
UNION MEN JOIN h
Let the peaceable Union men join with the
,ther citizens so that they cannot be tyranniZed
" their leaders or the anarchists and socialists.
There are many Unions so unlawful and ugly ;
hat even the national labor organizations de =
,Iore their existence and sometimes withdraw u
heir charters but this great movement by citi- =
ems 10 protect themselves does not necessarily =
mean the destruction of all Unions. =
MUST BE cUR6E0
II is absolutely demanded by public policy +,
hat they he strongly curbed and held 10 strict h
observance of the law. When they boycott, In n
imidate or conSpire lin restraint of trade let I
he (,itizens Associations lawyers proceed Y
q,inst and punish them under the existing laws I
md let public sentiment be so pronounced and v