The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1906-10-18
LABOR UNIONS ATTACKED
President Of American Bottlers' Asso-
citation Says Unionisn7. as Now
Conducted, Must Re Destroyed.

! The American Bottlers' Protective
Association began its eighteenth an
nual session Tuesday morning. The
initial meeting did not attempt any,
business, and the session was given
! ever to addresses of welcome by Gov
ernor Terrell, Mayor Woodward and
| responses by members of the associa-
ton. Following these, President Geo.
| 8. Hugo delivered the annual address,
| in which ne clearly outline; the policy
yf the association. One section of his
address bordered On the sensational,
attacking, as be did, trades-ulions IN
| the mcst whitening fashion, and de-
claring tha; they are a menace 10
society as they are now conducted.
Fully one thousand delegates from
various parts of the country were in
attendance. Many. Of them were ac-
COllDdlilSC Wy luCA1 "A'SS S'-Ae N~SNN
ters.
President Hugo's opposition to un-
ions was based uron his charge that
the unicn cannot determine the value
Of an employee, that every business
must have q responsible head and
that when his authority is divided
with that of a walking delegate it
is no longer authority. In this con-
ncction Mr.. Hugo said:
THE logical sequence of labor un-
ionism is socialism, and socialism as
commonly understood means stagna-
ticn and commercial death to any
country. This propaganda is being
preached until it has created feel
ing of hatred between employer ana
employe, in place of that feeling OF
good will so necessary for the sue
cess of any business. The labor union
With it's deviiish weapons of coercion
:atimidation and cruelty, coupled with
the selhshness, greed aad cowardice
CT the employers, has first brought the
inderendent workman to his knees
and now has assumed the dictatoriaj
attitude of a tyrant, demanding the
control and management OF our busl'
ness.
ssHow long will it be before we re-
a1ize that the trade-unions are giving
rs a lesson of which we are badly III
need, showing that individuals de-
feated separately, are invincible when
united.
Every business must have re-
snonsible head who must have au-
thority. Divide this authority with
a walking delegate and it is no longer
authority. Who is to determine the
value of an employe? How can the
value of an employe be determined?
II he is a member of a labor union
he cannot serve two masters, he can
not be loyal to you and his union.
and a man without soul has no
value.
"IJnionism as at present conducted
must be destroyed, must be killed. AS
Elbert Hubbard says in his preach
ment on the Law of Pivotal Points:
"'Where labor unions go beyond the
Pivotal Point and attempt to dictate
the amount Of the Notwithstanding
any many 10 earn more than so much;
decide on the proportion OF appren'
1ices to workmen-that is, who shall!
advance and who not; tear our work
that has been done by non-union men
and require that it shall be done over
by union men; insist that you must
ioin a union, or else be deprived OF
the right to work; then the union has
passed the Pivotal Point, and has
ceased to give an equitable return.
"eWhen your children do not go
to school for fear of the cry OF 'scab;
wien your wife dare not hang out
the washing in the back yard for fear
of the cry of 'scab;' when you hesi-
tate to go to your work knowing you
may be carried home on shutter;
when brickbats take the place OF rea'
son. and the walking delegate says:
Garry a unuion card or take out an
accident policy then things have gone
so far in self-protection the union
must be temporarily laid low with
nnk-pin.
"sIhe people of America cannot al
ford to let any combination OF men
become an engine for the destruction
Of liberty, be it labor union, Molly
Maguires or Ku-Klux."