Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-09-14

Ito right their wrongs, while the no
toriety seeking leaders carry out thel.
work.
| These men canno, thus force oppres-
zion on the weak and innocent or use
them 10 bring newspaper notice to
themselves and money to their pockets
Unless they can hold them in line
| Therefore. with the craft of the fox
and venom of the serpent they devise
the union label and tell the public
| to buy only articles carrying that label.
| Smooth scheme isn't it?
! They extract a fee from every union
man, and in order to get these monthly
fees. they must hold the workers IN
1.-THE union and force manufacturers
10 kick out all independent men,
| Can anyone devise more complete
and tyrannical trust?
| If allowed full sway no Independent
man could keep working in a free fac
l1ory. for the goods wouldat sell 10
matter how perfectly they be made
Then. when the factory had been
forced to close and the employees get
hungry enough from lack Of wages the
workers must supplicate the union
Headers 10 be allowed" to pay their
fines (for not becoming members be-
Ifore) and pay their monthly fees to the
lpurse-fat managers of the Labor Trust
iThereupon tUnder ordcrs) before the
factory be allowed to start they must
lforce the owners of the business to
Iput on the union label or strike.
lpicket the works, and turn themselves
into slugSers and criminals towards
1.-The independent workers who might
lstill refuse TO bend the knee and bow
the head.
In the meantime babies and mothe,s
go hungry and shoeless, but who cares.
The scheming leaders are trained to
talk of the uplifting of labor and
shed tears when they speak of the
brotherhood of man meaning tho
brotherhood of the skinny MaddenS,
; l'Sheas,' 'Gompers." ct al, always ex.
GLIDING the medium or high-grade in
dependent workers.
Perhaps you have noticed lately that
the makers of the finest hats, shoes
and other articles have stopped putting
lon the union label. Naturally the
: Labor Trust managers have ordered
their dupes to strike, lie idle, scrap
fight. slug and destroy property tt
force the makers TO again put on 9TH,
label" But for some reason the buy
: ing public has been aroused to the in
suits and oppression behind it and u
thousands of cases have refused to bu,
any article carrying, what some on.
named the tag of servitude and op
preston
The bound and gagged union slave
t is fined from $500 to $500 if he buy:
any article not bearing the ''uniol
o LABEL Nevertheless, he, time AM
/ again. risks the penalty and buy
: free goods simply in order to hel,
n the fellow workingman who is Draw
: enough to work where he pleases with
Y out asking permission on bende
n knees from the bulldozing leaders VIII
: lseek by every known method of o.
t Ipression and nate to govern him.
II these poor wageworkers will thu
;. brave fine and smuggling to help on
i lother men who seek to live free lif
v under our laws and constitution car
/ not you, reader. help little?
Will you reach out hand TO hei
n an independent workman earn foo
!. for his wife and babies? Or will yo
! from apathy and carelessness allol
), him to be thrown out of work aud tn
Helpless suffer until they proStrat
hnT x.4,r y,
= ltyrannical aggregation of leechesy upo
e honest American labor?
. The successor of Henry War
- Beecher in Plymouth church, Brood
tlyn. says:
Union labor hatred for labor burn
like a fame. eats like nitric acid,
e malignant beyond all description. BIZ
L. the other day. woman representa-
~ a certain union visited many familis
IL in Plymouth church asking them
II boycott a certain institution
q Alas this union woman's hatred ft
e non-umion women burned in her lih
e the fires of hell.
e She was pitilessly. relentfessly ar
n tirelessly pursuing the non-union wor
C. goods. to ruin their factory and
IS starve them out
I In the French revolution only 2 Pr
cent of the French people believed
le violence. The IS per cent disclaime
lie violence and yet the IS per cent :
y lowed the 2 per cent to fill the stree
of Paris with fostering corpses, to clt
Of the Seine with dead bodies, to shut |
III every factory in Paris. until the labc
e ing classes starved by the score.
s, The small per cent element in Il
" Labor Trust which hates and scel
t. to destroy the large per cent of ind
he pendent Americans sends out lette
declaring free" industries unfair al
sr tries to boycott their products.
q they could bind everyone it won
a bring suffering upon hundreds of tho
Or sands, immeasureable ruin upon Il
country, and land it absolutely und
Of control of the men now attempting
u dictate the daily acts of our peop
ly and extract from each monthly fe
II Hob