The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1906-10-19
LABOR UNIONS FLAYED
In Annual Address of President of Bot
tiers Association at Convention
In Atlanta.

nual session Tuesday morning. The
initial meeting did not attempt aay
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.
B. Hugo delivered the annual address,
in which he clearly outlined the policy
Of the association. One section of his
address bordered on the sensational,
attacking, as he did, trades-unions in
the most whitening fashion, and de-
claring that they are a menace to
society as they are now conducted.
Fully one thousand delegates from
various parts Of the country were in
attendance. Many of them were ac-
companied by their wives and daugh-
ters.
President Hugo's opposition to I'M
ions was based upon his charge that
the union cannot determine the value
OF an employee, that every business
must have a responsible head and
that when his authority is divided
with that of a walking delegate" it
is no longer authority. In this con-
nection Mr.. Hugo said:
'"The logical sequence Of labor I'M
ionism is socialism, and socialism as
commonly understood means stagna-
ton and commercial death to any
country. This propaganda is being
preached until it has created feel
ing of hatred between employer and
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,
intimidation and cruelty, coupled with
the selfshness, greed and cowardice
Of the employers, has first brought the
independent workman to his knees
and now has assumed the dictatorial
attitude OF a tyrant, demanding tho
control and management of our busi-
ness.
"How long will it be before we re-
alize that the trade-unions are giving
us a lesson of which we are badly III
need. showing that individuals de-
foated separately, are invincible when
united.
every business must have a re-
gponsibla 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 employee? How can the
value of an employe be determined?
# 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 a soul has no
value.
"Unionism as at present conducted
must be destroyed, must be killed. AS
Gilbert Hubbard says in his preach
ment on the Law of Pivotal Points:
E" where labor unions go beyond the
Pivotal Point and attempt to dictate
the amount of the output-forbidding
anv many 10 earn more than so much;
decide on the proportion OF appren-
rices 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 tho Pivotal Point, and has
ceased to give an equitable return.
"cWhen your children do not go
to school for fear of the cry Of 'scab;'
when your wife dare not hang out
the washing in the back yard for fear
Of the cry of 'scab; when you hest
tate to go to your work knowing you
NAV 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 selfprotection the union
must be temporarily laid low with
link-pin.
1.-THE people Of America cannot af-
ford to let any combination Of men
become an engine for the destruction
of liberty, be it labor union, Molly
Maguires or Ku-Klux."