The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-09-14

toriety-seeking leaders carry out their
work.
These men cannol thus force OPP
preston on the weak and innocent or
use them VI bring newspaper notice
to themselves and money to their
pockets unless they can aold 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 Ia
bel.
Smooth scheme isn't it?
They extract a fee from every union
man, and in order to get these month
ly fees, they must hold the workers
in the union" and force manufactur-
ers to kick out all independent men.
Can anyone devise MOI, complete
and tyrannical trust?
If allowed full sway, no INDEPENDENT
man could keep working in free fac
tory, for the goods wouldn't sell no
matter how perfectly they be made.
Then, when the factory has been fore
ed to close and the employees get
hungry enough from lack of wages the
workers must supplicate the union
leaders to be allowed" to pay their
fines (for not becoming members be-
fore) and pay their monthly fees to
the purse-fat managers of the Labor
Trust. Thereupon (under orders) be-
fore the factory be allowed to start
they must force the owners OF the
business to put on the union label
or strike. picket the works, and turn
themselves into sluggers and criml-
nails towards the independent workers
who might still refuse to bend tne
knee and bow the head.
In the meantime babies and mothers
go hungry and shoeless, but who CAFES.
The scheming leaders are trained 10
talk of the uplifting of labor" ana
shed tears when they speak OF the
brotherhood of man" meaning the
brotherhood of the skinny Maddens,
"Sheas." "Gompers," ct al, always ex-
Guiding the medium of high-grade in
| dependent workers.
Perhaps you have noticed lately that
the makers of the finest hats, shoes
and other articles have stopped put
ting on the union label. Naturally the
Labor Trust managers have ordered
their dupes to strike, lie idle, scrap,
fight, slug and destroy property to
4 force the makers to again put on the
LABEL" But for some reason the buy
ing public has been aroused to the
insults and oppression behind 1t anc
in thousands of cases have refused tc
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 $500 If he buys
any article not bearing the union
LABEL Nevertheless, he. time and
again, risks the penalty and buys
free" goods simply in order to helI
the fellow workingman who is brave
enough to work where he pleases
without asking permission on bendee
knees from the. bulldozing leaders
who seek by every known method o.
oppression and hate to govern him.
If these poor wageworkers will thus
brave fine and smuggling to help ou
other men who seek to live free life
under our laws and constitution can
not you, reader, help a little!
Will you reach out hand to hell
an independent workman earn foot
for his wife and babies? Or will yol
from apathy and carelessness ALLOW
him to be thrown out of work and thu
helpless suffer until they PROSTATE
themselves before this stupendous ant
tyrannical aggregation of leeches upol
honest American labor?
The successor of Henry Ware
Beecher in Plymouth church, Brook
lyn, says:
Union labor hatred for labor burns
like flame, eats like nitric acid, II
malignant beyond all description. Blu
the other day, woman representing
certain union visited many familie!
in Plymouth church asking them t
boycott certain institution.
Alas this union woman's hatred 70
non union women burned in her lik,
the fires of hell.
She was pitilessly, relentless1y an,
tirelessly pursuing the non-unio1
women and men to destroy the marke
for goods, to ruin their factory and t,
starve them out.
In the French revolution only pc
cent of the French people believed ii
! violence. The 9S per cent disclaimet
; violence and yet the SO per cent al
! lowed the 2 per cent to fill the street
of Paris with fostering corpses, to cloi
| the Seine with dead bodies, to shu
up every factory in Paris, until tn
| laboring classes starved by the score
The small per cent element in tn
Labor Trust which hates and seek
to destroy the large per cent of indie
pendent Americans sends out letter
declaring free" industries unfair an
tries to boycott their products If the,
could bind everyone 1t would brin
suffering upon hundreds OF thousands
immeasureable ruin upon the country