The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-08-31

pursued, women stripped, homes de.
stroyed, men murdered and the long,
long list of atrocities practiced by La.
Dor Trust members on other human
beings who cannot agree with the
trust methods.
Now for the better way.
Workingmen are now organizing In
the old fashioned trades union or
guild way, affiliated with the Ma
tional Trades and Workers Associa-
ton whose constitution provides arbt
tration of differences with agreement
for no strikes, boycott, picketing or
hateful coercion of any kind.
This Trade Association has evolved
from the experience of the past and is
the highest order of Trade Unionism
at the present day.
Under its laws it is not possible for
the Hod Carriers Union or the Street
Sweepers Union to order the school
teachers or locomotive engineers to
quit work in sympathetic strike"
If any craft finds Injustice, the case
is presented to properly selected arbi-
traitors. testimony taken and the case
presented to the public through the
press. Thereupon public opinion, that
greatest of all powers, makes itself
felt and curiously enough a fair set
Element is generally the result.
There is no strike, no loss of wages.
no loss to the community. and yet the
faithful workers get their just treat
ment.
There are many details which have
been worked out by men skilled in
labor matters.
1t will recompense any interested
to know these details which can be
secured by postal request for con-
stitution and bylaws written to the
National Trades and workers Associa-
ton, Kingman Block, Battle Creek,
Mich.
Reader, look carefully into this
great question of the relations of
Capital and Labor and it's successful
solution. The new plan works and
brings results for its members.
with the trustworthiness and practi-
cability Of the leaders of this new la
Dor movement that / gave the Associa-
ton a sanitorium at Battle Creek
worth about 100000 and with about
800 rooms, to be used as home for
their old members and the helpless
babies. sometimes made fatherless by
member of the violent Labor Trust =
Suppose you attend church Labor
Sunday and hear what your minister
has to say in defense of the safety
and rights of the common, everyday
man.
Let me ask you to read again a por-
ton of one of my public articles
printed few years ago.
1.-THE people of the world have given
me money enough to spend In these
talks through the papers in trying to
make better and safer conditions for
the common people. whether the Pos
tum business runs or not.
Scores of letters have come to me
from work-people and others. some
from union men, recounting their suf-
ferings from union domination and
urging that their cases be laid before
the public.
1t will not answer for us to only
sympathize with the poor, the OPP
pressed, those who haven't power
enough to drive off tyrants and resent
oppression, we must help them tie
the hands of the oppressors, Ameri-
cans must act.
Some of my forebears in New Eng
land left comfortable homes, TOOK
with them the old flint locks, slept on
the gorund in rain and frost; hungry,
footsore, and half clothed they grim
I ly pushed where the Eternal God OF
Human Liberty urged them. They
wove for me and for you mantle OF
I freedom. woven in loom where
| shuttles were cannon balls and bull
lets and where swords were used to
pick out the tangles in the yarn.
These old. sturdy grandads of ours
stood by that loom until the mantle
was finished, then, stained with their
/ life blood it was handed down TO us.
Shall I refuse to bear it on my shout
ders because the wearing costs me
a few dollars, and are you towards
enough TO hide yours because some
foreign labor union anarchist orders
you to strip it off
l have faith that the blood of 1776
still coursing in your veins will Jingle
and call until you awaken Then
Americans will Act" There's Rea,
SON, c. w. POST.