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


BETTER CONDITIONS
1t Is hopeful sign to see the Unions" SLOWLY
changing for better and they must contInue To
improve and become more lawabldng If they ex-
pect an indignant public 10 permit them to exist
one great deterrent is the violent character OF
the editors of their labor papers who persIsf
entity misstate facts and mislead their reades
by highly cOlOred reports and comments that
lntame the minds OF people led too often bv
their prejudice instead Of cool reason.
But slowly the Union man is coming 70 r1nd7r-
stdhd Ihat II he becomes a law breaker IN re-
spouse to the anarchistio suggestions of his labor
paper he must pay the penalty of crime against
his fellows. When the anarchists socialists and
criminals are either driven out or suppressed
the unions will perhaps then pattern after the
honored brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
ana win respect for their members BY honesty
uprightness and good citizenship: then the Union
man will be known as a capable, thrifty and high
grade workman 1.-THE old Trade Union ideal and
the scrubs and pretenders wiil not be allowed 10
faunt Union Card as evidence OF their right 10
abuse and maltreat all the balance Of mankind
The Unions as now made M need an immense
amount Of house cleaning and the public has
been forced by their ugIineSs to demand If
Every right thinking Union man knows this
and is earnest in his desire to have the criminals
expunged. for the peaceable members are de-
nounced by the public for their association with
the others
If these high grade men would withdraw from,
the mismanaged bands of outlaws and set ND a
union where good Workmanship was the test
and then offer their first class labor at even
higher prices than common, with their contracts
made legally responsible. and if II became known
that when buyer of labor didn't care TO pur-
chase this union would peaceably offer its labor
elsewhere. but not go bullying about like lot
of bandits and lawbreakers. they would then
command the admiration and respect Of the en-
tire community, for people like TO see workmen
prosperous. Observe the high position in the
minds of the public that the Locomotive Engi-
hava for rblv1 Nv - IL -Io.,
Of procedure
Many and many high grade man IS an I'M
willing associate and member of the anarchy
! tainted unions, and he seeks freedom somehow,
somewhere.
Help him.
II is no insult to tell man he is in a place
that stinks he may know and deplore II but IL
he defends the shrinking place he insults himself.
CRIMINAL BRAND
SO when you hear q Union man denounce
those who point out the crimes or the Unions
and seek to purify them. you may know TO
certainty that he is of the anarchist. criminal
type and squirms when the sunlight OF publicity
is turned upon him. Among this class viii be
found the majority of labor paper editors
We should demand Of our public officials that
they proceed as they did in the beef trust and
give the people protection from this labor trust
that Expresses the common people more than
dozen meat or oil trusts.
What is a cent OF two gallon OF OIL as
compared with the hundreds OF thousands OF
decent bread earners thrown out Of work from
time to time. and the hundreds OF millions OF
dollars in business lost to the people by the
withdrawal of capital from industry
REFUSE TO BUILD
1t is a common remark nowadays that no one
but fool will start new building or a new
industry and subject himself 10 the tremendous
losses indignities, and worry from the labor
unions.
The proposed building operations and new IN
duStries that have been abandoned in the past
two years amount in dollars and cents. lost TO
our work people. more than would keep an army
IN meat and oil for a lifetime
Citizens high and low. YOU must rise IN your
might and free yourselves from this worst OF
all trusts-ths startling menace to human lib
ertv. 1t is before you and its injuries are felt
by every man but the few eaSy-ltving leaders
who have by organization of the $50 OF work
men. threatened the complete domination or the
$50 of unOrganiZed citizens.
This fair country has already been injured
hundreds of millions of dollars and its people
subjected to countless scores Of indignities by
the labor trust
ACT
We have conspiracy and trust laws. Write
President Roosevelt urging that he direct the
proper government officers TO do their duty with
this most ruinous OF all trusts. then don't forget
YOUR own duty towards the boycott. the union
label and TO organize your towns for protection
Read this article over again carefully and Act
c. W. Posi-
NB You ask what motive inspires me to
pay about 100000 10 print this proclamation
of freedom in the various papers In the United
States sure to bring down on me hundreds more
of coarse vlifying. abusive letters from labor
union thugs and many kind letters from law
abiding members of Unions
The officials of the Labor Commissioners Of
flee of Michigan say pay the highest wages IN
the state for like work. But will not bow 10
the comic opera kings and potentates OF the
labor unions or allow them 10 'uniOniZe' the
Postum factories. Therefore they boycott Post
UNI and "Grape-NutS
I was trained TO my business and they
were not vet they propose 10 and their abuse
has been sufficient 10 interest me in a study Of
the fearful conditions that confront our country
to-day.
The people of the world have given me money
enough TO spend in these talks through the
papers In trying TO make better and safer COndi-
lions for the common people, whether the Postum
business runs or not.
Scores OF letters have come 20 me from work
people and others. some from union men, re-
their sufrerings from union domination
and urging that their cases be laid before the
public
1t will not answer for us to only sympathlze
with the poor, the oppressed, those who haven't
power enough to drive off tyrantS anil resent
oppression must help them tie the hands OF
the oppreSSors. Americans must act.
Some of my fOrebears I'm New England left
comfortable homes. took with them the old flint
locks. slept on the ground in rain and frost;
hungry footSore and half clothed they grimly
pushed on where the Eternal God of Human
Liberty urged them. They wOve for and for
you q mantle of freedom. woven in loom where
the ShuttleS were cannon balls and bullets and
where swords were used TO pick out the tangleS
in the yarn
These old. sturdy grandadS Of ours stood BY
that loom until the mantle was finished then.
stained with their life blood Ii was handed down
to us. Shall refuse to bear il on my shoulders
IL,