The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-08

overturned and cOFpSeS thrown into me streets under the eyes of the hOrrihed friends and relatives. All this misera- ble record of crime by labor unions to force fires American citizens to bow to the impudent laws of the unions which they demand must take precedence ever all Othsr laws, even of the United States government. To check this an- arachy manufacturers are forced to act together. We absolutely must have ths. free or open shop as contrasted with the slave or closed shop.
 When a manufacturer operates a closed shop he prostitutes his American manhood, insults his own intelligence and business sagacity, strikes vicious blow at every honorable independent workman, and like the craven that he is, turns over the control of his busi- ness to the labor union, whose demand, once they get the power, become more and more tyrannous and unbearable day by day until the weak-minded
 manufacturer wakens to the fact that
 he is bound hand and foot and ruin oVertakes him unless he has money and
 backbone enough to go through the ter
 rible fight back to freedom once more,
 and that fight has destroyed many a
 business and ruined many an industry
 Modern Unionism is like a fixed and
 chronic disease. Once it becomes fas-
 tened to the victim it slowly and surely
 pushes him daily closer to the grave.
 Only those survive who have the force,
 intelligence and vitality to shake it off.
 If you doubt that statement try becom- ing inoculated with the disease of a
 closed shop and you will surely pay the
 penalty of such a crime against hu-
 manity, as any one and every one must when they transgress either fundamen- tai or natural law.
 The manufacturers who find them selves enmeshed in this disease will lose money every day they delay the step to freedom. Open your shop at once, come what may. If they declare
 a boycott advertise the fact in the pa-
 pers. Experience proves that the great
 eighty-five per cent. of freedom loving
 Americans will rush to your assistance
 and increase your business more than
 you would believe. Dozsns and hun
 dreds of instances prove the truth of
 this assertion. Don't have the slightest
 fear of boycott. The American buy
 ing public are heartily sick of labor un-
 ions and their interference with human liberty and the general prosperity oa this country. They are glad of an opp
 portunity to put the impudsnt anar- chist and law breakers in the back ground, where they belong.
 REFERENCE LETTERS. l Let no manufacturers give letter of ! recommendation to any workman who has been a dissatisfied malcontent and, agitator, or a striker, stone thrower
 scab shouter or insulter of other and i mora decent workmen. Then let no employer hire man unless he can show clean record as a desirable man
 and bring with him a good testimonial from his former employer. What kind of business policy is it to take a fire brand into your works, a man who
 hates all employers and believes the la Dor union tenet oft expre ssed that "em- ployers are the enemies of the work
 men?" Such a man will spoil goods, spread discomfort and not hesitate to harm, either in pocket or person. the
 man who pays him. You had as well
 warm a snake in your bosom.
 EXAMINATION BEFORE EMPLOY MENT.
 Pursue this policy of examination vigorously. It is a tremendous safe guard.
 DISMISS TROUBLE MAKERS. l Discharge union men promptly and 1 for all time when you learn of the little and big acts of meanness, or incivility with which they are prone to insult other men with whom they work. It is
 common practice of union men in the
 open shop to harass daily in a variety
 of underhanded ways the upright and 1 capable workman who may not choose to poin union and subject himself to 1 their laws, dues, fines and limiting of | energy and output CLEAN FACTORIES.
 Preserve the best of hygienic condi- | tions in your factories.
 APPRENTICES. l Put in as many apprenticese as your 1 own pjudgment dictates, absolutely i without regard to any union rules. HIGH WAGES. Pay your high grade skilled men the very best wages the condition of trade | will admit, remembering that such men at high wages are the cheapest in the l end.
 GRADED MEN. Grade your wages to fit the capahili- l ties of each man.
 Allow no Union Card" to force a "scrub' on you at the wages of firset- class man.
 PIECE WORK.
 Pay by the pisce as far as possible and do not cut the piece work price, when the men become proficient and earn good wages, The fast piece work CT should earn from B 1-3 to 50 per cent. more than the same man will av- l craze on day work.
 BOYCOTTS.
 | A boycott is an unlawful conspiracy | to injure trade and a most cowardly act from which no man is immune if | allowed unrestricted use for any wasp | ish enemy might thus attack for any | fancied grievance. One of the insult- | ing boycotts thrust under the noses of Americans is the Union Label" It | impudently proclaims, Don't buy any, l thing but what We make. Everything | made by our competitors or indepen- 5ep yYyorl- iS Irad