The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-09-23

cal acts against American citizens and
haven't told half the tale. Right here
II becomes necessary to say for the
ten thousandth time that there are
scores OF honest, law-abiding union
men who deplore and are In no way
responsible for the long Infamous rec
ord of the Labor Trust" under its
present management. but they don't
seem to stop it
Inc men who manage, who pull the
strings and guide the policy have
made the record and 1t stands, as
made by them.
Examine. IL you please. the record
or string Of members of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor and you will
view a list Of crimes against Amer
leans. stupendous beyond belief. They
defy the laws. sneer at the courts,
1ncite mobs and are avowed enemies
or the peaceable citizens of all classes
This band wields an iron bar over
their subjects and drives them to
1dleness whenever they want to call a
strlke or exact extra pocket money
for themselves.
Men don't want to be thrown out
OF work and lose their livelihood, but
what can they do when the slugging
and numbering committee stands al
ways ready to do them" II they try
to work.
The poor women and helpless chill
dren suffer and no one dares present
their case to the public. They must
suffer In silence for they have no way
TO right their wrongs, while the no.
toriety-seeking leaders carry out their
work.
These men cannot thus force op-
preston on the weak and innocent or
use them to bring newspaper notice to
themselves and money to their pock-
cts 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 tho 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 tho union" and force
manufacturers to kick out all inde-
pendent men.
Can anyone devise a more COM
plete and tyrannical trust?
II allowed full sway, no fndeoend-
ent man could keep working in a free
factory, for the goods wouldn't cell
no matter how perfectlythey be made.
Then, when the factory has been
forced to close and the employees get
hungry enough from lack of wages
the workers must suppIicate the
union leaders to be allowed" to nav
their fines (for not becoming mem
bers before) and pay their monthly
fees to the purse-fat managers of the
Labor Trust. Thereupon (under or
ders) before the factory be allowed
to start they must force the owner,
OF the business to put on the "union
label" 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 moth
ers go hungry and shoeless. but who
cares. The scheming leaders are
trained to talk Of the uplifting of Ia
Dor" and shed tears when they speak
Of the brotherhood of man." mean
Ing the broth erhood OF the skinny
Maddens." "Sbeas," "Gompcrs. et
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 stonneo
putting on the union label. Natural
ly the Labor Trust managers have or
dered their dupes to strike. lie idle
scrap, fight. slug and destroy proner,
ty to force the makers to again nut
on "the LABEL" But for some reason
the buying public has been arouseo
to the insults and oppression behind
1t, and in thousands of cases have ra-
fused to buy any article carryino
what some one named the tag of ser,
vitude and oppression"
The bound and gagged union sIave
is fined from $500 to $500 n he
buys any article not bearing tbe
union label" Nevertheless. he
time and again. risks the penalty and
buys free" goods simply IN order to
help the fellow workingman who is
hvave enough to work where n.
pfeases without asking permission on
bended knees from the bulldozine
leaders who sect By every knovn
method OF oppression and hate 20