The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-12
They're After You

ployed." That class Is made up large
ly of Labor-Socia1ists and incapable,
botch workmen. The worthy workmen
are seldom unemployed" Many of
these unemployed" are the noisy chaps
who called strikes during the prosper
GUS years. They wouldn't work them
selves and kept thousands Of good men
from work.
They boycotted factories and destroy
ed business, compelling other workmen
to lie idle
They stopped the loading and I'M
loading Of ships and railway cars; stop
ped work on buildings, the mining of
gold, silver, copper and COAL Stopped
the manufacture of millions of dollars
worth Of American articles which for
eigners stood ready to pay money for.
1t is believed by many that one of
the chief causes of the panic and pres
ent hard times was the persistent and
widespread Interference with, and stop
page of industry brought about by
these same Labor-Socialists in driving
away business and preventing the
steady distribution of money among
the working classes. Every million dol
lars worth of steam pumps, farm imple-
ments, boots and shoes, steel, iron, 10
comotives, cars, cotton goods, etc., etc.,
sent abroad, brings back a million dol
lars to be distributed to the workmen,
WHO Q1S ore anu S1H0lL HlOulOSTS WIN
cast the iron, machinists, wood-workers,
cotton mill employees, ETC.. etc. But the
Labor-Socia1ists have time and again
stopped up the source of this flow or
money and have entailed on this coun-
try millions upon millions OF dollars In
losses and, consequently, much misery
upon work people.
The labor leaders have brought
strikes to force all employers to kick
out Independent American workmen
and employ only Union" men, thus to
give absolute power to the leaders, Sc
cure fees to pay their own salaries first
and, in order to keep their slaves in
terested, force higher and higher wages.
Here we reach the foundation fact
again.
Now, when the Jobs the Labor-Social-
lists threw away, are taken by others,
or the business has been killed for the
time, and they are unemployed" do
they pay their own expenses or do they
besiege the authorities to tax the class
of home-owners to pay extra money
towards public fund to be used to pay
the class of unemployed Labor
Socialists?
Here the line between classes is clear
ly drawn and you get back again to the
same old spot, Take from one class
and give to the other"
Make the consumer pay extra mon
A-eAOoA -hCOC<e~AAN~N
Charge the home-owner extra wages
for all labor which enters into the
building of his home"
He has been saving, now let's take
away part of 1t.
High wage for skilled work is de-
sirable for all. but when Labor
Union gains power enough to force
home-owners to pay two. three or
four times what hodcarriers and
other workmen are actually worth it
means just so much extra money ex-
tracted from the home-owner, more
than the service is worth.
1t comes back to the same old
place. you see. Look at the purpose
of all the anti-injunction bills in
troduced by the Labor-Socialfsts.
Each and every one seeks to tie the
hands of the peoples courts, and for
what purpose? No injunction issued
in labor strikes ever harmed an hon.
est citizen intending to peacefully
pursue his occupation
Injunctions stop mobs, intent on in
sulting, assaulting and perhaps muir
dering other citizens, from congregat-
ing. The Labor-Socialist raises a
loud cry because he is commanded by
a court to keep off the public street
near a factory employing independ-
ent men.
The injunction always directs the
man or men to stay off certain streets
or refrain from doing other things,
when it is reasonably we'll known
they intend to go on those streets or
do those acts. to insult, or assault
citizens or destroy property. The
peaceful citizen is never hurt by an
injunction in a labor case and the
courts have a right to prevent injury
to the interests of any community.
But injunctions do prevent Labor-So-
cialists from terrorizing people into
submission to the Labor trust
Therefore, in order to secure SUBJ
mission and power to extract from
the employer extra money, they con-
tend the injunction must be done
away with.
Every public man who supports any
measure seeking to reduce the power
of the courts in order to make it more
difficult for them to protect property
and the person of the common citizen
is an enemy of Home-Owners and an
ally Of the Labor-Soc ialists.