The San Francisco call., 1909-09-16

man, and in order to get these monthly
fees they must hold the workers in
''the union and force manufacturers
to kick out all independent men.
Can any one devise a more complete
and tyrannicaI trust?
If allowed full sway. no independent
man csuld keep working in free fac
tory, for the goods wouldn't sell no
matter how perfectly they be made
to close and the employees get hungry
enough from lack of wages. the work
ers must supplicate the union leaders
to be allowed to pay their fines (for
not becoming members before) and
pay their monthly fees to the pursefat
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 toward 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
brotherhood of man.. meaning the
brotherhood of the skinny Maddens."
"Sheas, "Gompers," ct al. always ex-
cluding 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
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 it and
in thousands of cases have refused to
buy any article carrying. what some
one named the tag of servitude and
oppression
is fined from $500 to $25.00 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 workingman who is brave
enough to work where he pleases
without asking permission on bended
seek by every known method of op-
preston and hate to govern him.
If these poor wage workers will
thus brave fine and slugging to help
out other men who seek to live a
free life under our laws and cousti-
tuition. can not you. reader. help a
little?
VIII you reach out hand to help
an independent workman earn food
for his wife and babies? Or will you
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
er in Plymouth church, Brooklyn. says:
Union labor hatred for labor burns
like flame. eats like nitric acid is
malignant beyond all description But
the other day, woman representing a
certain union visited many families in
Plymouth church. asking them to boy
colt certain institution
Alas this union womans hatred for
nonunion women burned in her like
the fires of hell
She was pitlessly. relentlessIy and
tirelessly pursuing the nonunion wom-
goods, to ruin their factory and to
starve them out
In the French revolution only per
cent of the French people believed in
violence. The 9S per r~cent disclaimed
violence and yet the 9S per cent al
lowed the per cent to fill the streets
of Paris with fostering corpses. to
clog the Seine with dead bodies, to
shut 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 independ
ent Americans sends out letters de-
claring free sindustries unfair and
tries to boycott their products II they
could bind everyone it would bring suf-
fering upon hundreds of thousands.
immeasurable ruin upon the country.
and land it absolutely under the con-
troll of the men now attempting to
dictate the daily acts of our people and
extract from each a monthly fee
There are babies. children. women
and honest, hard working and skfl1fui
fathers who rely upon the protection of
their fellows. when they seek to sell
their labor where they choose, when
they choose. and for sum they believe
it to be worth.
Every citizen having the rights priv
ifeges and protection of a citizen has
also the respensibility&of a citizen
The Labor Trust leaders may suavely
request (or order those they can) to
buy only union LABEL articles, and
you can of course obey il 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 the label"
They go so far as to have their
women pretend to buy things. order
yards of silk or cloth torn of 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
Let no one who reads this article un-
derstand that he or she is asked to
boycott any product whether 1t bears
union label" or not. One has a con-