The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-07-04

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the poor dead body of a loved mother or
child thrown cruelty into the street
/ and the sorrowing mourners viciously
attacked and driven from the solemn
rites conducted for their loved ones in
the last and final farewell.
These are a few of the many indigni-
ties and tyrannies heaped upon the
common American citizen in this pres
ent day slavery of the labor trust, a
slavery more widespread and irk-
some, with more assaults upon citizens,
more oppression, more property des-
troyed, and more murders committed
than during the period of negro slav-
cry, which SO aroused the human
sympathy Of great people, that in the
settlement of the question millions of
lives and hundreds of millions Of pro-
perry were sacrificed.
All that to free the African while the
latter-day slavery manacles the hands
of the white free-born American.
Think Of the condition under which
thousands of our citizens are forced,
against their will, to pay money to join
the unions, and to obey blindly the or
ders of the leaders to stop work when
told helpless to earn the little money
needed by wife and children for food,
clothing and fuel, helpness to maintain
their manhood and self-respect,, bow
ing and crushed until the suicides
caused by utter despair, has mounted
up to an appalling list.
Why don't the people rise in their
might and free themselves from this
monster, someone inquiries?
Let us look at the facts and see.
Some years ago there arose a Cod
given inspiration for the wage Garner to
better his condition, and the sympathy
of the whole people went out towards
the movement Organization, to mass
power seemed requisite and trade un-
Ions came into being, their early mo-
tives being pure. They must have
| leaders improvements began to appear
in better sanitary conditions, better
hours and better wages. Then the lead
ers began to demand large salaries and
finally to wiring graft" from the mem
bers and from employers. Then APP
peared the intoxication of power the
leader found that his slightest word
must be obeyed and in order to enforce
1t he must rule by terrorism and alb
solute slavery methods, Money In
great sums must be raised and the pro-
cedure seemed simple, Hire agitators
and organizers on a commission basis.
Send an organizer into any district
even where workmen are well paid and
contented. Seek out few hot heads
and wild talking individuals, easy to
End In any community. join them in a
meeting, make some inflammatory
speeches tell them how they are abused
and that tabor creates all wealth and
therefore must take it al"
Urge them to make other workmen
dissatisfied, and in few days a nu-
cleus is formed like small SNOWFALL
which only needs little rolling to
grow rapidly. Then mass these discon-
tents and march to factory and call
the workmen to drop their tools join
"the union and go on strike.
] Some steady heads demur and say
they have good positions and good pay
| Waylay such a man on his way home,
argue and persuade" him to join the
union and strike Call him "scab' II he
refuses, boot and jeer at him, throw a
| few stones and get some boys to chase
and harass him. Have crowd call
on his grocer and tell him he will be
| boycotted if he furnishes that scab''
any goods; same to the clothier, butcher
and coal man. Notify his friends not to
associate with him, instruct the chill
dren to chase his and terrorize them
going and coming from school. Notify
his employer that all other workmen
will quit and boycott his goods if he
don't discharge that scab." About
that time this martyr begins to- feel
| that it is terrible price to pay for his
standing up for the freedom and liberty
| guaranteed him by the constitution OF
his fathers and his right to independ-
ent action and unless he be the one
| bravest man out Of hundred brave
men he Will yield and bow his neck to
| the yoke Of the labor trust, an abso-
| lutte slave crushed and helpless. From
| that time he is subject to orders he
dare not disobey, while occasional fines
of from $1,000 to $4,000 are assessed
against him by "the union" to pun
ish' him and incidentally fatten the
pocketbooks of the leaders.
Thousands and tens Of thousands Of
| high grade American workmen are in
that condition Of helpless slavery to-
day and they curse, but bow.
Give them a chance and they would
free themselves, but the skilful organ
ization set up and ruled by the paid
leaders is powerful enough to keep
them properly ''tamed'"
Thus we see a movement started with
high and noble purpose drifted into
the hands of designing men who, hav-
ling discovered the volume of power put
in their hands, use it for personal ends,
talking loud about the wrongs Of la
Dor" etc, ETC., while fastening the
chains tighter and tighter on the arms
of that labor.
They quickly discover the necessity of
forcing all workmen to join the trust
so the leaders can secure the monthly
| contributions and also govern them.
So to bring this about, we see the
most aggravated forms of oppression
and tyranny; daily pressure and an
noyance is applied by one workman to
the independent man at his side and
the indignities of various kinds are
numberless and variegated. Persistent
and long continued harassing generally
drives the independent man to pay the