The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-14

Can anyone devise more complete and tyrannical trustf
 If allowed full sway. no independent man could keep working in free fac tory. for the goods wouldn't sell nc matter how perfectly they be made Then. when the factory has been forced to close and the employees get hungry enough from lack of wages the work ers must suppiicate 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. There upon (under orders) before 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 slug gers and criminals towards the inde- pendent 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 scheming leaders are trained to talk of the uplifting of labor" and shed tears when they speak of the broth erhood of man" meaning the brother hood of the skinny Madden" 'Sheas. ." "Gompers," ct al, always excluding the medium or high-grade independent workers.
 Perhaps you have noticed lately that the makers of the finest hats. shoes and other articles 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 put on ''the label. /" But for some reason the buying public has been aroused to the insults and oppression behind 1t and in thousands of eases have refused to buy any ar- ticle carrying, what some one named the tag of servitude and oppression. :"
 The bound and gagged union slave Is fined from $5 to s25 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 help the fellow work ingman who Is brave enough to work where he pleases without asking per- mission on pended knees from the bull dozing leaders who seek by every known method of oppression and hate to govern him.
 If these poor wageworkers will thus brave fine and slugging to help out other men who seek to live e free life under our laws and Constitution. can- not you. dear reader, help a little?
 Will you reach out a hand to help an independent workman earn food for his wife and babies7 Or will yov from apathy and carelessness allow him to be thrown out of work and the helpless suffer until they prostrate themselves before this stupendous and tyrannical aggregation of leeches up- on honest American labor?
 The successor of Henry Ward Beech- CT in Plymouth 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 representing a certain union visited many families in Plymouth Church, asking them to boycott certain institution. Alas this union woman's hatred for non-union women burned in her like the fires of hell.
 She was pitilessly, relent1essly and tirelessly pursuing the non- union wo- men and men to destroy the market for goods, to ruin their factory and to starve them out.
 In the French revolution only 2 per cent. of the French people believed in violence. The 9s per cent dlsciaimed violence and yet the ss per cent. allow ed the 2 per cent to i'll the streets Of Paris with fostering corpses, to clog the Seine with dead bodies, to shut up every factory In Paris. until the la- boring 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 in1e- pendent Americans sends out letters declaring free" industries unfair and tries to boycott their products. If they could bind everyone. it would bring suffering upon hundreds of thousands, immeasureable ruin upon the country, and land 1t absolutely under control of the men now attempting to dictate the daily acts of our people and ex- tract from each a monthly fee.
 There are babies, children. women and honest. hard working and skillful fathers who rely upon the protection of their fellows when they seek to sell their labor where they choose. when they choose. and for a 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 suave- ly "reouest" Cor order those they canl to buy only union labeP' articles, and you can of course obey if you are un- aer orders.
 Depend upon 1t. the creatures of the Labor Trust will. upon reading this, visit stores and threaten dire results unless All the things bear "the label 2
 They go so far as to have their wo- women pretend to buy things, order yards of silk or cloth torn ofr and va- rious articles wrapped up and then dis cover mo 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 un- derstand that he or she is asked to boycott any product whether 1t bears . Hunion label" or not. One has a con- stitutionai right to examine the article and see whether its makers are Labor