Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-15

meal trust?
If allowed full sway, no Independent man could
keep working in a free factory for the goods
wouldn't sell no matter how perfectly they be
made. Then, when the factory has been forced
to close and the employees get hungry enough
the union leaders to be allowed to pay their
fines (for not becoming members Before) and pay
their monthly fees to the purse-fat managers of
the Labor Trust. Thereupon (under orders) be-
force the owners Of the business to put on the
union LABEL strike, picket the works, and
turn themselves into sluggers and criminals to-
ward the independent workers who might still
refuse to bend the knee and bow the head.
In the meantime babies and mothers GO
hungry and shoeless but who cares? The schem-
ing leaders are trained to talk Of the uplifting
Of labor and shed tears when they speak Of the
brotherhood Of man." meaning the brotherhood
Of the skinny Maddens'' "Sheas," "Gompers.'
ct al, always excluding the medium or high
grade Independent workers.
Perhaps you have noticed lately that the
tcles have stopped putting on the union label.
Naturally the Labor Trust managers have ordered
their dupes to strike, lie idle, scrap. fight slug
and destroy property to force the makers to again
buying public has been aroused to the insults
and oppression behind it and In thousands Of
cases have refused to buy any article carrying
what some one named the tag of servitude and
oppression
The bound and gagged union slave is fined from
$500 to s25o 90 If he buys any article not bearing
the union label" Nevertheless, he, time and
again, risks the penalty and buys free goods
who is brave enough to work where he pleases
without asking permission Bonded knees from
the bulldozng leaders who seek by every known
method of oppression and hate to govern him.
II these poor wageworkers will thus brave fine
and smuggling to help out other men who seek to
live free life under laws and constitution
cannot you, reader. help little?
Will you reach out hand to help an indie
babies? Or will you from apathy and careless
ness allow him to be thrown out Of work and the
helpless suffer until they PROSTATE themselves
before this stupendous and tyrannical aggregation
of leeches upon honest American labor?
The successor of Henry Ward Beecher in Ply
mouth Church, Brooklyn, says:
Union labor hatred for labor burns like a
flame, eats like nitric acid, is malignant beyond
all description. But the other day, a woman rep
resenting a certain union visited many families
in Plymouth Church asking them to boycott a
certain institution. Alas this union wom-
ans hatred for nonunion women burned in her
like the fires OF hell.
She was pitilessly, relentlessly and tirelessly
pursuing the hon-union women and men to de-
stroy the market for goods to ruin their factory
and to starve them out
In the French revolution only PC Of the French
people believed in violence. The % per cent dis
claimd violence and yet the 9S per cnt allowed
the per cent to fill the streets Of Paris with
fostering corpses, to clog the Seine with dead
bodies. to shut up every factory in Paris. until
the laboring classes starved by the score.
The small per cent element IN the Labor Trust
which hates and seeks to destroy the large per
cent Of Independent Americans sends out letters
declaring free" industries unfair and tries to
boycott their products. II they could bind every
one 1t would bring suffering upon hundreds Of
thousands, Unreasonable ruin upon the country,
and land 1t absolutely under control Of the men
now attempting to dictate the daily acts of
people and extract from each a monthly fee.
There are babies, children, women and honest,
Woodworking and skillful fathers who rely upon
the protection Of their fellows. when they seek
choose. and for sum they believe 1t to be worth
Every citizen having the rights, privileges and
protection Of a citizen has also the responsibility
Of a citizen.
The Labor Trust leaders may suavely re
quest Cor order those they CAM to buy only
union LABEL articles. and you can of course
obey II you are under orders.
Depend upon it. the creatures Of the Labor
Trust will, upon reading this, visit stores and
threaten dire results unless all the things bear
1.-The LABEL
They 90 so far as to have their women pre-
tend to buy things, order yards OF silk or cloth
torn off and various articles wrapped up and
then discover no label" and refuse them.
That's been done hundreds Of times and is but
one Of the petty acts Of hatred and tyranny.
Let no one who reads this article understand
whether IL bears union LABEL or not. One
has q constitutional right to examine the article
and whether its makers Labor Trust con-
tributors and slaves or are free and independent