Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-01

I knew years ago that the plan Of this big labor trust was to
ultimately gain control over every workman, clerk and enPloye in
the U. S, including farm hands and government employees.
This has been partly accomplished in some localities; then
followed acts which clearly showed the intent.
to "join the union"
Next, monthly dues. Say s25ooOo a month in a town with
10000 members" at rs cents each.
Next, zines assessed for some infraction of rules"
Then the lash of the slave driver came forth. Orders to strike;
show power and to contribute from the hard-earned pay envelope
for strike benefits to other men forced into idleness pending nego-
tiations between crooked leaders (D and crooked employers who
hire said leaders to call strikes on competitive jobs. thus making
the workmen tools, kept idle while the chiefs scrap for control or
One of the hardest strokes of the lash is the money forced from
But let an honest workman, who, perchance, has been driven into
"the union" dare to dsobey one of these orders" and he is taught
a lesson through the smuggling or diynamiting committees. 49,.
when closed shop" full control is obtained by the tyrannical leaders.
Now, observe the plan Of this gang to govern men and affairs.
Organize every trade. Insist on closed shop. Then use the
ing all government employees. Some of the oaths defining that the
union rules shall "precede Church, State and Family.
Then force Congressman to pass antrlnJunctlon laws to prevent
Force merchants to hire only union" clerks and sell only
ing crews to drive back the protesting ones or remove" them
OF course, in carrying out the plan for complete control by the
gang, some we're caught.
Whenever openly exposed the men higher up" Immediately
begin to assess members to protect the criminals and always rush
into print with loud cries and much mock sentiment about the
brotherhood Of man" and the defense of the wage worker" with
such play , upon + the ,a sympa dsyir Of tt the read psG tbejr tn nsme s0i ie th see pap s~n
1t would be hard to convince the widows of the twenty-one
1ha1 ,heir mh N sr received cSs much benefit from the defense Of the
VIC q worker" nor could they we'll understand such working OF that
particular brand of the brotherhood of man. scheme.
Late events have stripped the lambs coat from the body OF the
wolf and shown most clearly the lying deceit and horrible portent
underneath, which have tried time and again to explain to the
public.
wavad. Fingers chopped of, with the comforting assurance that
"now YOU can set type il you will" Crowbars and heavy weights
dropped on heads. Fathers beaten unconscious and many times
crinpled for life; little homes blown up and many and many a corpse
brought to the destitute family.
These ar not occasional cases." Such crimes run literally
into the thousands, and judges and junes have been threatened with
death. bribed, and witnesses slugged or put out Of the way.
In the Government cases now pending the witnesses must De
guarded from the agents of the Labor Trust with its tentacles
Teaching to the most remote corners Of our country.
Don't permit yourself to be misled by the vaporings OF senti-
mental. drooling degenerates who assert that these murders are Justl-
fed because society has oppressed workingmen.
In No other country in the world are they paid as high and as
earnes effort devoted to their welfare. Nor is there as alum
dant opportunity in any other country in the world for workingmen
to gain fortunes.
wage earners. u.
These murders are instigated by that class of men, always in
evidence, who hate success: They coony and cruelty plan and exc
cute assaults and murders to satisfy their own hate and show their
mower over the slaves who dare protest. The nightly talk OF strikes,
given in many a union meeting, develops the hate and murderous
instinct which waits only for opportunity to carry out.
Take the Los Angeles case as an Illustration. The Times had
withstood about Is years of all kinds of attacks, not because Its
faithful employees we're underpaid. They received wages higher than
the union scale. but they refused to bow down and place themselves
under control of the gang" hence they were persstently. assaied
and finally 81 we're murdered. These men only asked to be let alone
10 support thir families, but union leaders determined to rule over
them, hence the murders.
The whole set-up Of the leaders of the great Labor Trust" the
American Federation of Labor, points toward a diabolcaly adrot
to secure to those leaders complete control over their own mem