The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-15

tory, 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 from lack of wages the work CTS must supplicate the union lead CTS to be allowed" to pay their fines
 Cfor not becoming members before) and pay their monthly fees to the purse fat managers Of the Labor Trust Thereupon (under orders) before the factory be allowed to start they must force the owners of the business to put on the union labeP' or strike. picket the works, and turn themselves into sluggers and criminals towards 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 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 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 1t 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 325.00 if he buys any article not bearing the union label" Neverth eless, he time and again, risks the penalty and buys free"
 goods simply in order to help th9 fellow workingman who Is brave enough to work where he pleases with out asking permission on pended knee from the bu1ldozing 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 free life under our laws and constitution ,. cannot you, reader, help little? Will you reach out @ hand to help an independent workman earn food | for his wife and babies? Or will | you from apathy and carelessness all ] low him to be thrown out of work | and the helpless suffer until they pros | trate themselves before this stupendous and tyrannical aggregation of leeches | upon 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 l the other day a woman representing | a certain union visited many fam | flies in Plymouth church asking theE l to boycott a certain institution. l Alas this union woman's hatred for 1 non-union women burned in her like
 the fires of hell.
 l She was pitilessly, relentlessly and
 tirelessly pursuing the non-union & won ar en and mon to destroy the market for
 goods, to ruin their factory and to starve them out
 1 In the French revolution only z
 per cent of the French people believed l in violence. The 98 per cent disclaimed l violence and yet the 9S per cent ai- | lowed the 2 per cent to Ill 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 inde- !, nendent Americans sends out letters | declarinr free" industries unfair and tries to boycott their products. If | they could bind everyone it would bring suffering upon hundreds of thous- lands tumeasurable ruin upon the country. and land it absolutely under | control of the men now attempting to | dictate the daily acts of our people and extract from each monthly fee.
 There are babies. children. women
 and honest, hard working and skillful
 fathers who rely upon the profession
 of their fellows, when they seek to | sell their labor where they choose, l when they choose, and for a sum they believe it to be worth.
 Every citizen having the rights priv LfIeges and protection of citizen has
 also the responsibility Of a citizen. The Labor Trust leaders may suavely
 "reuuest" Cor order those they can)
 to buy only '-unton label articles. and
 YOU can of course obey If you are
 under orders.
 Depend upon it, the creatures of the
 Labor Trust wil, 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
 ar cloth torn off and various articles
 wrapped up and then discover mo label"
 and refuse them. That's been done hun
 dreds of times and is but one of the petty
 acts of hatred and tyranny.
 Let no one who reads this article un- | darstand that he or she Is asked to boy-