The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-03-13

wouldn't work themselves and kept thou- sands of good men from work.
 They boycotted factories and destroyed business compelling other workmen to lie idle.
 They stopped the loading and unloading of ships and railway cars; stopped work on buildings the mining of gold, silver, copper and coal. Stopped the manufac- ture of millions of dollars worth of Amer ican articles which foreigners stood ready to pay money for.
 It is believed by many that one of the chief causes of the panic and present hard times was the persistent and widespread interference with, and stoppage of indus try brought about by those same Labor Socialists In driving away business and preventing the steady distribution of money among the working classes. Every s1. 0O0,0O0 worth of steam pumps, farm i'm plements, boots and shoes, steel, iron, To- comotlves, cars, cotton goods, etc. etc, sent abroad brings back s1 000,000 to be dis tributed to the workmen, who dig ore ana smelt it: moulders who cast the iron. 1nachinists woodworkers, cotton mill em- ployes, etc., etc But the Labor Socialists have time and again stopped up the source of this flow of money and have entailed on this country millions upon millions of dollars in losses and, con- sequently, much misery upon work people.
 The labor leaders have brought strikes to force all employers to kick out indc- pendent American workmen and employ only union men, thus to give absolute power to the leaders, secure fees to pay -..1 .x-1A fx. keep their slaves interested, force higher and higher wages. Here we reach the foundation fact again.
 Now, when the jobs the Labor-Socialists threw away are taken by others, or tife business has been killed for the time an0 theyiare unemployed" do they pay their own expenses or do they besiege the au- thorities to tax the class of home-owners to pay extra money toward a public fund to be used to pay the "class' of lnem- ployed Labor-Socialists?
 Here the line between classes is clearly 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 money and give it to the Labor Socialists
 "Charge the home-owner extra wages for all labor which enters into the build ing of his home"
 ''He has been saving, now let's take away part of it.'
 High wage for skillful work is desir- able for all, but when a Labor Union gains power enough to force home- owners to pay two, three or four limos what hodcarriers and other workmen are actually worth 1t means just so much extra money extracted from the home owner, more than the service IS worth.
 It comes back to the same old place, you see Look at the purpose or all the anti-injunction bills introduced py the Labor Socialists. Each ana every one seeks to tie the han or the pen ple s courts, and for what purpose? NJ" injunctioh issued In labor strikes ever harmed an honest cftizen, intending 'o peacefuIIy pursue his occupation.
 Iniunctions stop mobs, intent on 1n- sulting assaulting and perhaps murder ing other citizens, from congregatins' The Labor Socialist raises loud crY because he is commanded by q court to keep off the public street near lac tory employing independent men. inc injunction always directs the man Or men to stay off certain streets or refrain. from doing other things, when it is reasonably well known they intend to TO on those streets or do those acts to insult or assault citizens or dactrov nronerty. The peaceful citizen ,s never hurt by an injunction in q labor case and the courts have right to prevent injury to the interests of any con,nunity. But injunctions do nreyens Labor Socialists from terror izing people into submission to the | labor trust.
 Therefore In order to secure submis- l sion and power to extract from the em | blower extra money, they contend the l injunction must he done away with. Every public man who supports any ! measure seeking to reduce the power of l in courts in order to make 1t more diff | fcult for them to protect property and | the person of the common citizen ss an enemy of Home Owners and an ally | of the Labor Socialists.
 i Watch such public men-particularly | those who want to revise the criminal l code injunction laws. They want to