Evening journal., 1905-05-04
Proclamation Of Freedom

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Why have the people come to de-
spise the very term labor union?'
The feeling seems universal and Is
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
slug, throw bricks, shoot cut, dyna-
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 lnborn sympathy for and a
desire TO help along every honest
peaceabe workman. SO merchants,
manufacturers and all sorts OF en-
ployers who used to work with their
hands ard now work harder with their
brains to get together money to pay
those who work with their hands. have
with the general public, borne pa
tiently many acts of tyranny and abuse
until the union leaders have become
emboldened and intoxicated with
power.
Want Trouble.
They must make trouble in order to
feed their vanity be 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 opera
tlons, 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 hor-
lrifying scene of their interfering with
the sacred rite Of burial of the dead.
They have the impudence to interfere
I'm any and every act of life, demand
| ing that an movements be made only
according to the union rule" Their
continued abuses and interference
with the rights Of citizens has so out
ragged the people that they not only
detest the name labor union" but are
.d to take up the most rigorous
and emphatic measures to stop these
outrages. and stop this Interference
with the movements Of the common
people.
People Annoyed
When a man wants to go TO bust
ness on a car he doesn't want to be
told the unions have tied up the line"
When he relies for his dinner on hav-
| ing the meat. bread and vegetables de-
! livered, IL 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 sacri-
lces must be made for the supremacy
of labor"
He tries TO paint his own house at
spare times, but the painters union
lhoot him, and boycott the paint deal
er and grocer that sells him goods.
A sudden leak Of a water pipe is
aooding his house and destroying his
property, but the rules Of the plumb
I ers' union impose all sorts Of penalties
II he tries to help the trouble. SO they
Interfere I'm all sorts of ways with the
liberty and freedom Of the common
people. making life a burden and man
an abjeot slave to the impudent "or-
lders" Of the labor boss, and these labor
unions know no limit to their exac-
tions and abuses so long as they have
power TO ride down the people They
go the full limit even 10 demanding
that the laws OF the u. S. Govt give
way to their rules.
A Costly 6lundsr
when Pres. Mckinley came to lay
the corner stone Of the federal build
ling I'm 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 pockets Of the common people, he
made the fearful mistake of bowing his
{ head to the orders" of the labor
bosses and allowed them to put on
! his neck the yoke of a Union Card
b before he was allowed to lift a trowe
land lay that corner stone. Think OF
IL. The chief Executive OF this gov'i
made 10 step down from his eminent
position and allow a union boss to sill
3 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 rea
estate and destruction of property 10y
fires set by unions, literally hundreds
5 of millions of dollars and many lives
. Is IL any wonder the common peopll
p are sick and tired of unions" They
e lordered the little Colonel now in tn
White House to discharge printer be-
cause he wouldn't join a union an'
they also ordered him not 10 ride OF
la certain r. r. that refused to ODE.
{ Them, but they found there a wise ant
- brave man, the real Executive Of al
. lthe people and not alone OF the tel
lin eight hundred or the one Thousand
who seek TO corner the labor marke
and shut out the eighty thousand VIII
ldo not.
He says: when any labor uniol
- seeks improper ends or seeks q
achieve proper ends by improper mean
Ian good citizens and more especially al
c honorable public servants must op
pose the wrong doing as resolutely "a
they would oppose the wrong doing o
y lany great corporation. OF course, am,
, violence. brutality or corruption shoul
not for one moment be tolerated"
Genuine Trust
But here we see a genuine trust,
a labor trust. a combination to sell labor
land this arrogant trust proposes b,
. threats Of violence 20 force people q
buy its commodity.
= And why do they block progress