Arizona republican., 1905-05-12
Proclamation Of Freedom

4 mechanic pays for ton of coal, and before it is delivered the labor trust issues orders that the coal shall not be touched. The mechanics fam fly is cold and suffering. so he tries to deliver his own coal and is sIugged un- conscious by the union labor trust committee
 WHAT FORT
 All this interference with the affairs of the people, the violence and crim- inal 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 labor shall be used, but that the workman shall say what he shall do, how he shall do it and when. These are the reasons pure and simple and the public-you and I--must suffer in- convenience and loss, and ultimately pay all the bills. for maintaining order by our city, county or state authorities, the total cost of prosecuting the crim- inals, and on top of all that, we, the public must pay whatever raise in wages is made to buy off the trouble | makers. It is the people who suffer and pay.
 Suppose the Union" flour mallers go on strike for a raise from S3 to $5 a day and tie up or blow up the mills and finally secure the advance in wages. That advance must be put on | the price of flour and the people pay | 1t, and also pay all costs for suppress ing the rioters.
 So we see a few men become avari- cious for money, form a labor trust. l 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 unchecked. Is it not time the people took steps to pro tect themselves from this violent and | grasping trust?
 ALL JOIN
 Suppose every one of us adopts the Labor Urion 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 $20 a bushel, and picket, | assault or kill the miller and blow up his mill if he tries to buy wheat at less price of anyone but a Union" l farmer.
 Then the milers' union sets the price of flour at $S5 a barrel. and calls everyone "scab" that refuses to buy flour 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 about SIS a barrel extra on every bar rel of flour to the little labor trust of millers. Someone says, that's ex- treme." It is not. but is exactly what would hapen if that particular union got power enough. You see the only init fC fIn s,f, 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 $1 a 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 $35O (any price they set goes for that's the union rule) and the poor corpse whose relatives can't borrow or beg the price to 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 a peaceable organi- zation compared with the riotous. ar rogant and lawbreaking labor trust a menace to every citizen including i the upright members of the Unions | themselves.
 Is a public contract to be let, i'm mediately 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 dis aster are made. Suppose a quarry ! 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 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 they have no right whatever to make laws for the con- troI of other people and when they in- | terfere 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 1 law just as true as a needle turns | to the north pole.
 Have a careful look at the stock and see.
 OPPOSE POLICE
 | When manufacturer cannot afford to pay the price asked for labor. the unions, in order to force him, go on strike. picket, boycott, riot. and set up general disorder. Then the police are called in to preserve peace. There has been no disorder by the man who buys labor. It is only caused by the men who have labor to sell and who become outlaws, and bandits under the leader ship of anarchists. The police are hired by the peoples money to protect the community but when these peace officers appear do the Unions show