The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-05-05
Proclamation Of Freedom


held by the great general public and
by probably more than half OF the un-
| willing members of the unions.
Statistics show about ten union"
| members to every eight hundred citi
zens and this small minority under
takes to rule the rest of us and if we
don't obey exactly and quickly they
| mite, boycott and 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 and a desire to help along every
| honest, peaceable workman SO mer-
chants, manufacturers and all SORTS of
employers who used to work with
their hands and now work harder with
| their brains to get together money TO
! nav to those who work with their
| hands, have, with the general public,
borne patiently many acts OF tyranny
and abuse until the union leaders
| have become more cmboldened ana IN
| toxicated with power.
| WANT TROUBLE
| They must make trouble in order
| to feel their vanity by seeing them
selves 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 * H.
| cars. building operations, delivery OF
goods serving of meals, delivery OF
| 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
! the burial of the dead. They have the
| impudence to interfere in any ana
| Of demanding
movements be made only according to
s'thc union rule Their continued
abuses and interference with the rights
| of citizens has so outraged the people,
| that they not only detest the name
Labor union" but are forced to take
up the most rigorous and emphatic
measures to stop these outrages ana
stop this interference with the move
ments of the common people.
| PEOPLE ANNOYED
| When a man wants to go to bust
| ness on q car he doesn't want to be
| told the unions have tiled up the line,
| When he relies for his dinner on hav-
| ing the meat. bread and vegetables de-
| Iivered, it doesn't set at all we'll to
| lose his dinner because the unions
| had tied UP the meat or bread supply,
| or the teamsterS' 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 SUI
premacy of labor"
| He tries to paint his own house at
| spare times but the painters union
| boot him, and boycott the paint deal
er and grocer that sells him goods
A sudden leak of water pipe IS
| flooding his house and destroying his
| hIIt -
| union impose all sorts Of penalties IL
| he tries to help the trouble. SO they
| interfere in all sorts of ways with
| the liberty and freedom of the COM
! mon people, making life burden ana
| a man an abject slave to the impudent
| "orders" of the labor boss, and these
! labor unions know4fno limit to their
cxactions and abuses SO long as they
! have power to ride down the people.
| They go the full limit even to de-
manding that the laws of the u. S.
| Govt give way to their rules.
a COSfLX BLUNDER
When Pres. Mckinley came to lay
| the corner stone of the federal build
| ing in Chicago Chat 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 pockets of the common people),
| he made the fearful mistake of bowling
|
| eS and allowed them to put on his
neck the yoke of a "Union Card be-
| fore he was allowed to lift trowel
and lay that corner stone. Think of
| it. The chief Executive of this govt
made to step down from his eminent
! position and allow a union boss to sit
| there and issue orders" That one
| act made the labor unions so drunk
| with power and impudent that it has
| cost Chicago in losses to business,
| wages, buildings, depreciation of real
estate and destruction of property by
| fires set by unions, literally hundreds
| of millions of dollars and many lives.
Is it any wonder the common peo-
| pie are sick and tired of unions"
| They ordered the little Colonel now in
| the White House to discharge a prin-
| ter because he wouldn't join a union
and they also ordered him not to ride
on a certain II. r. that refused to
obey them, but they found there Il
| wise and brave man, the real Execu-
| tive of all the people and not alone
of the ten in eight hundred or the
| one thousand who seek to corner the
| labor market and shut out the eighty
| thousand who do not
Hc says "When any labor union
seeks improper ends or seeks to
achieve proper ends by improper
| means all good citizens and more es-
must oppose tho wrong doing of any
great corporation. OF course any vio-
| lence, brutality Or corruption should
| not for one moment be tolerated."
| GENUINE TRUST
But here we see genuine trust q
| labor trust, combination to sell labor.
and this arrogant trust proposes by
| threats of violence 20 force people TO
| buy its commodity
And why do they block progress.
prevent others from working, separate
themselves from other citizens. hate
everyone not in their union" boy
colt aud threaten, conduct themselves
as bandits and outlaws and commit
all sorts of crimes to force themselves
and their one-sided ideas upon peo-
pie?
COST TO CITIZENS
They become criminals in order to
force 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 strike occurs, fight to see if
they can force the employer to let
them do the work as they want to and
not as he requires 1t.