The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-04

maintain peace and support the laws is ,
threatened, and where the trust is
strong enough the citizen is not al
lowed to paint his house, fix his water
pPs lay c RFSk mix s mSTtaf p play IN O.
wait on table, drive teams, deliver
milk, or work as machinist, blacksmith,
molder, carpenter, painter, typesetter,
pressman, cigarmaker, paperhanger, or
do any other form of work without per-
mission of the labor trust and paying
money to support it's leader. Observe,
I say '.'where the trust is strong
''strong enough in places where it
is yet too weak to rule. It even had a
hod carriers union and horse lead
ers'' union to federate with other
slaves among the unionized doctors and
grand opera singers. The punishment
| of refractory members or citizens. who
dare assert their personal rights includes
times the hearse is overturned and the
poor dead body of a loved mother or
child thrown cruelty into the street and
the sorrowing mourners viciously at
tackled and driven from the solemn
rites conducted for their loved ones
in the last and final farewell
These are few of the many indig-
mites and tyrannies heaped upon the
common American citizen in this pres
ent day slavery of the labor trust,
slavery more widespread and irksome,
with more assaults upon citizens, more
expressions, more property destroyed,
and more murders committed than dur
ing the period of negro slavery, which
SO aroused the human sympathy Of a
great people, that in the settlement Of
the question millions Of lives and hun
dreds of millions of property were sac
rifced.
All that to free the African while the
| ,tter-day slavery manacles the hands
the white freedom American.
Think of the condition under which
.ousands Of our citizens are forced
gainst their will, to pay money to join
he unions, and to obey blindly the
riders Of the leaders to stop work when
I'D. helpless to earn the little money
'eeded by wife and children for food,
lothing and fuel, helpless to maintain
heir manhood and self-respect, bow
ng and crushed Until the suicides
Ep to an appalling list.
night and free themselves from this
monster, someone inquires7
Let us look at the facts and see.
Some years ago there arose God-given
Inspiration for the wage Garner to bet
ter his condition, and the sympathy of
the whole people went out towards the
movement. Organization, to mass power
seemed requisite and trade unions came
into being. - They must have leaders,
sanitary conditions, better hours and
better wages. Then the leaders began to
demand large salaries and finally to
wiring "graft y from the members and
from employers. Then appeared the
intoxication Of power; the leader found
and in order to enforce it he must rule
by terrorism and absolute slavery meth
DDS. Money in great sums must be
raised and the procedure seemed simple
Hire agitators and organizers on com
mission basis. Send an organizer into
any district even where workmen are
we'll paid and contented. Seek out few
easy to find i'll any commounity.. Join
them in a meeting, make some infam
matory speeches, tell them how they
are abused, and that "Iabor creates al
wealth and therefore must take it all:
Urge them to make other workmen dis
satisfied, and in few days q nucleus i
formed like q small SNOWFALL which
} only needs a little rolling to grow rap
idly. Then mass these discontents ant
> march to factory and call on the
, workmen to drop their tools, join . the
union' and 90 on strike. ~.
Some steady heads demur and say
+, they have good positions and good pay
Waylay such man on his way home
a and Ga him him ss oibn IN
: he refuses, boot and ieer at HON, throw
o few stones and get some bows to chase
= and harass him. Have a crowd call OF
. his grocer and tell him he will be boy
/ cotted if he furnishes "that seab, :
l any goods; same to the clothier, butch
er and coal man. Notify his friends
net to associate eli c Th him nstf ce e
ing. from school: Notify his EN-
: ployer that. all other workmel
will quit and boycott his goods # h
: don It discharge that scab. Abou
t that time this martyr, begins to fee
that it is terrible price to pay f 5!2 IN nj
s guaranteed him by the constitution O
@ his fathers and his right to Independent
: action and unless he be the one braves
. man out of q hundred brave men h
: will yield and bow his neck to the yok
Of the labor trust, an absolute slav
g crushed and helpless From that tim
e he is subject to tordersD he dare no
disobey, while occasional fines Of from
! $40 to 800 are assessed against hir
by E'the union ;. to punish him an
r incidentally fatten the pocketbooks 0
! the leaders.
Thousands and tens Of thousands o
: high grade American workmen are il
: that condition Of helpless slavery toda.
9 and they curse, but bow.
,. Give them chance and they woul'
), free themselves, but the skilful organ
e ization set up and ruled by the pai
leaders is powerful enough to kee'
them properly s tanned.
). Thus we see a movement started wit
!. high and noble purpose, drifted into tn
= = hands Of designing men who, havin
= discovered the volume Of power put i
: their hands,, use it for personal ends
X talking loud about the wrongs Of Ia
y bor, etc, ETC., while fastening th
; chains tighter and tighter on the arm
IT Of that labor.
Y They quickly discover the tnecessit
Of forcing all ,workmen to Join the trua
D so the leaders can secure the MONTH
u contributions and also govern them. 81
= to bring this about, we see the mos
le aggravated forms Of oppression an
tyranny; daily pressure and annoyanc
oils applied by one workman to the ind'