The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-04
POSTUM AND GRAPE NUTS.

Why have the people come TO oespiSe
the very term labor unioni
The feeling seems universal and IA heid
by the great general public and by probably
more than half OF the unwilling members
Of the unions.
Statistics show about ten 'union' MEM
bera to every eight hundred oitizens' and
this small minority undertakes TO rule the
rest Of us. and II we don't obey exactly
and quickly they slug, throw bricks, shoot
cut, dynamite, boycott and murder.
BORN WORKERS
Most all Americans were born Of work
peopls. We know what IL Is TO work and
work hard. We are not children Of Dukes,
Tarls or the idle rich and we have an Unborn
sympathy for and a desire 10 help along
every honest peaceable workman. So
merchants, manufacturers and all sorts
81 EMPLOYERS who used TO work with their
hands and now work harder with their
brains to get together money 10 pay 10 those
who work with their hands, have, with the
general public, borne patiently many acts
OF tyranny and abuse until the union lead
ers have become more embroidered and In
to1icated with power.
WANT TROUBLE
They must make trouble In order to feed
their vanity by 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, inter-
fere with business, stop street and K X.
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 burial OF the dead. They have the
impudence to interfere In any and every
act Of life, demanding that all movements
be made only according 10 "the union rule.
Their continued abuses and interference
with the rights Of citizens has 30 outra ged
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, and stop
this interference with the movements OF
the common people.
PEOPLE ANNOYED
When a man wants TO 60 20 business
on a car he doesn't want TO be told the
unions have tied up the line When
he relies for his dinner on having the meat,
bread and vegetables delivered, IL doesn't
set at all well to lose his dinner because
the unions had tied up the meat or bread
supply, or the teamsters' union slugged
and driven OF the new teamsters that tried
10 deliver the goods. His baby needs milk,
but the milk drivers union has stopped
the supply. "Let few Of the d. babies
die. some sacrifices must be made for tho
supremacy Of labor
He tries TO paint his own house at spare
times, but the painters union boot him, and
boycott the paint dealer and grocer that
sells him goods.
A sudden leak Of a water pipe Is flooding
his house and destroying his property, but
the rules OF the plumbers union impose all
sorts Of penalties II he tries to help the
trouble. SO they interfere In all sorts OF
ways with the liberty and freedom OF the
common people. making life burden and
man an alb ject slave TO the impudent orders
OF the labor boss. and these labor unions
know no limit TO their exacuons and abuses
30 long as they have power to ride down
the people. They 60 the full limit even TO
demanding that the laws Of the U. s. Govt
give way TO their rules.
A COSTLY BLUNDER
hnen ITeSs hChlIlley ChLlo 70 lay Nh0
cornerstone Of the federal building in
Chicago that the unions had delayed for
years and forced thereon an unnecessary
cost Of some millions Of dollars which
had 10 be paid out Of the pockets Of the
common peoplel he made the fearful mis-
take Of bowling his head TO the orders
Of the labor bosses and allowed them to
put on his neck the yoke Of a union Card"
before he was allowed to lift a trowel and
lay that cornerstone. 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 sorders. .
That one act made the labor unions so drunk
with power and impudent that Il has cost
Chicago in losses to business, wages, build
ings, depreciation OF real estate and de-
struction Of property by fires SGT by unions
literally hundreds OF millions Of dollars and
many lives.
Is it any wonder the common people
are sick and tired Of unions They or
dcred the little Colonel now in the White
House 10 discharge a printer because he
wouldn't join union, and they also ordered
him not TO ride on a certain r. r, that re-
fused 20 obey them, but they found there a
wise and brave man, the real Executive 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.
He says: when any labor union seeks
/ improper ends or seeks TO achieve proper
ends hy improper means all good citizens
| and more especially all honorable public SER
! wants must oppose the wrong doing as reso-
/ mtely as they would oppose the wrong
doing Of any great corporation. OF course
! any violence, brutality or corruption should
not for one moment DO tolerated"
GENUINE TRUST
But here we see a genuine trust, labor
| trust, a combination 10 sell labor, and this
arrogant trust proposes by threats Of vio-
lencs 70 force people 10 buy its commodity.
And why do they block progress, prevent
others from working, separate themselves
| from other citizens, hate everyone not in
! their -unlon.' boycott and threaten, conduct
/ themselves as bandits and outlaws and COM
! NIT all sorts Of crimes TO force themselves
and their one-sided ideas upon peoPlel
COST TO CITIZENS
! They become criminals IN order 10 force
a few cents or dollars extra out OF the public.
Then after they have forced their labor
on some firms, they refuse 10 do the work
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