The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-05-04

often by their prejudice instead of cool
reason.
But slowly the Union man Is coming
to understand that if he becomes law
suggestions of his labor paper he must |
pay the penalty of crime against his fell |
lows 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, and win re-
spect for their members, by honesty, up
Union, man will be known as a capable,
thrifty and high grade workman (the
old Trade Union idea) and the scrubs
and pretenders will not be allowed to
haunt Union Card as evidence of their
right to abuse and maltreat all the
balance of mankind. The Unions as
now made up need an immense amount
of house cleaning and the public has
been forced by their ugliness to demand
it, Every right-thinking Union man
knows this and is earnest in his desire
to have the criminals expunged for the
peaceable members are denounced by
the public for their association with
the others.
If these high-grade men would with
outlaws and set up a union where good
workmanship was the test, and then
offer their frst-class labor at even
higher prices than common, with their
contracts made legally responsible, and
4 if it became known that when a buyer
of labor didn't care to purchase, this
union would peaceably offer its labor
elsewhere, but not go bullying about
like lot of bandits and lawbreakers,
they would then command the admira-
ton and respect of the entire commu-
nifty, for people like to see, worlxmen
hoo k1,o I, ir1,
> in the minds Of the public that the
! locomotive engineers have won for
themselves by just this plan of proce-
dure. 10y
Many and many high grade man is
an unwilling associate and member OF
the anarchy-tainted unions, and he
seeks freedom somehow, somewhere.
1t is no insult to tell man he is in
: a place that stinks; he may know and
l deplore it; but if he defends the stink
> ing place he insults himself. %
$ CRIMINAL BRAND
So when you. hear union man de-
S nounce those who point out the crimes
= of the unions and seek to purify them
J. you may know to a certainty that he
e is Of the anarchist, criminal type and
< squirms when the sunlight OF publicity
J. is turned upon him. Among this class
IS will be found the majority of labor
q paper editors. 81 >> ..% +
n We should demand of our public Of
+ ficials that they proceed as they did II
h the beef trust and give the people pro
4 lection from this labor trust that .op
e. presses the common people more thai
dozen meat or. Oil trusts. g.. -
,e What is a cent or two on gallon o
" oil as compared with the hundreds o
~ thousands of decent bread-earner
II thrown out Of work from time to time
n and the hundreds Of millions Of dollar
ID in business lost to the people by TIL
20 withdrawal of capital from industry.
REFUSE TO BUILD.
It is a common remark noWaday
ri that no one but "a fool will start a ne'
Al building or new industry and subjec
no himself to the tremendous losses, il
# dignities and worry from the labc
ks unions. ~ =.
I'd The proposed building operation
in and new industries that have. bee
n abandoned in the past two. veal
q amount in dollars and cents, lost
il our work people. more than would kee
Id an army in meat and oil for a lifetim
co Citizens, high and low, you must rit
he in your might and free yourselves fro
Of, Of menace to human liberty. It is befc1
you, and it's injuries are felt by ever
man but the few easy-living leade
who have by organization Of the
or per cent of workmen threatened tt
a complete domination Of the IS per ce]
&C. of unorganized citizens.
an This fair country has already BET
in injured hundreds of millions Of dolla
,or and its people subjected to countle
Of scores of indignities by the labor trus
ae- ACT.
We have conspiracy and trust law
Write President Roosevelt urging tn
he direct the proper government {
to fcers to do their duty with this mo
Ter ruinous of all trusts; then don It forg
he your own duty toward the boycott, t
Oft union label and to organize your tow
he for protection.
Of Read this article over again ca
his fully, and Act.
to- C. W. POST.
Wn N. B.-You ask what motive inspil
ecu proclamation of freedom in the
ny, rious papers in the United States, s,
70 to bring down on me hundreds more
u1n coarse, villifying, abusive letters fir
20 labor union thugs and many kind
~ 'on ters from law-abiding members
[on Unions.
the The officials of the Labor Comm
LOT sioner's office. in Michigan say I F
ne the highest wages in the state for 1
nor work But I will not bow to the con
ing opera kings and potentates of the lal
ois, unions or allow them to 'sunioniz
. "a d the Postum factories. Therefore Il
t the boycott Postum" and Ora
5 Ine Nuts. -
aei; I was trained to run my busin
anu and they were not; yet they prop
to, and their abuse has been suffici
to interest me in study of the fe
ioin full conditions that confront our CO
hey try today
ders Inc people OF the world nave q
me money enough to spend in tn
vful talks through the papers in trying
abor make better and safer conditions
ence the common people, whether the P
ters. UNI business runs or not.
8 to Scores Of letters have come to
lrily from work people and others, some fl
!. union men, recounting their suffer-
from union domination and urging t
their cases be laid before the public.
lbl1c 1t will not answer for us to only $,
and pathize with the poor, the Cypress
law. those who haven't power enough
con- drive off tyrants and resent OPP
the sion, we must help them tie the ha
ceeo Of the oppressors. Americans must
j 10 "a Some Of my forebears in New. 7
= ~ ~ land left comfortable homes, took v
~ " them the old flint locks, slept on
: ~ III ground in rain and frost; hungry,
az sore, and half clothed they gri
90 pushed on where the Eternal God
~ ~, ); Human Liberty urged them. They. W
loii for me and for yOlls a mantle of f