| Show AN l CONFLICT The Tho organization of the ho Citizens Alli Alliance once ance In this thle city lIt was wan consequent upon tipon tl ilie c attempts of 01 labor unions to 10 their control of Industrial affairs affect affecting lag ing tho tha rights of employers and of ot em oni Ivory firm tin Ing log workmen of ot any nn trade or class should support the Alliance In lit tho In III Interest InI I terest ot of peace and liberty There Is II nothing I In h Its l alms or 01 a pica Inimical to rights right it 11 does 1011 not hot to or ut with a n labor 11 hot existIng or IJ that within the iii limits of law and order or lva and u It Itt t 1 hi only when wh 11 s seek Iel to toI dominate employer or prevent work workIng I lag Ing In from obtaining employment i they tile tho join n it Union that tho the Alil Alii runes Intends to o Intel Interpose pone Now No it will ho bo of ot no tin UH use ulle tot for the OB totem who n a living by b promoting trouble mid situ pitying the tho tyrant to mis mill tho the act Reu and motives of ot those who bo ho oppose their m methods That Thill laity rC to anger the Ignorant but bUI it will VIII R c 4 not aid tho the union cause No one that we wo o know of ot is against the association o omen ot omen men lOen or women or or both for mutual lion ben They may lOa form Corm os as many unions at oa they choose 10 so tar far as we wo are aro concern concerned ed and the Alliance cores core nothing about bout 0 them It IL Is tho the extreme extremes to which they BO so often otten run that we ve e object to and It II ItIs ItIs Is ns os much for theIr heir own Interest as u that of the public that we wo e call attention to those tho e wrongs Wo We have Intimated that If employer will have hao to return the tho compliment by refusing to employ union labor If Ir nonunion workers are aro combined combine against and turned out OU to 10 starve stare Well why not It HIs Is an on alter aller alternative alternatIve native that Is III being thrust upon many ninny contractors and companies that are nrc placed at lit the mercy of the tho bosses and walking delegates In big cities The New Nets York Commercial recently has taken up this matter vigorously vigorous be because because beCause cause of ot tho the oppressive course courts of ot unions In Chicago and ond In the Empire City ell Here lIere nrc are a n tow few extracts from that paper We exclude some of ot the fiery flery denunciations In which It Indulges This quotation refers refer to 10 affairs affaire In fn Chi Chicago ChIcago cago cage Two local unions union of stationary fire firemen firemen i imen men and engineers have havo had some rame real or fancied grievance against I Ithe the Western Company and andare tire ore not only emily on strike but scheming to I prevent the employment of at the works Judge 1 on Saturday granted the thu com coin company pany pony a n temporary Injunction against uS the lilt strikers This TIui was wan chiefly on the statement of nt Attorney that tho the safety of ot worth of or perishable goods de depends heads upon the time operation oper of the ma mutt machinery chinery In the plants of ot the company He lie alleged that tho the unionists were do doIng Ing Jag all oil In their power even enn retorting resorting to assaults to prevent this necessary operation of the tho cooling machinery Iner The Tho restraining order Includes Include n IL clause pi preventing the union from attempting to persuade or lr Induce the tho officers of It tho the company to employ only union help helpIn helpIn helpIn In the tho case of ot two In imi Now York who were forced out of or their positions petitions by the union because o In their employers Interest they discharged ed an nn Incompetent union workman the em cia employers had to let lot them go or fiRM fight the union and thC tho th Commercial remarks As Au s between bet the dictator ami the faithful that employing company compon cast east out tho the latter and nOlI bent ltd its neck afresh to tho time yoke oko of or tho the tyrant Irant union In Iii that moment It said practically to We Wo arc aro not our own on monsters masters We Wo cannot employ those thone whom wo we would 1110 to employ We cannot reward reword or punish unfaithfulness We are lire at nt the mercy macroy merc of f nn lit organization atlon whose system permits underlings un to select 8 lect and control their own bosses We cannot do oven ONt justice In this case caio be bo CaUS to 10 do tie so ito would put our plant plans lute Into Inton lutea n a 1 condition of ot chaos cimos and demoralize our business Such outrageous conditions cannot long bug continue In n any ony Industry try Every l erY I employer Vho who by yielding permits thorn them must mu l eventually feel the blight that all nil forms of ot sooner or later bring Every el employer who suffers a n labor union to run his hi for fur him will Inevitably come face to truce with conditions that wilt will bo be found Intolerable The Tho longer he its allows allow him himself himself hIm hImself self to bo bl a it slave to unionism the time hard harder er will It bo be to off oct Its yoke oke amid break bronk Its Ita chains when patience anti and endurance shall finally have ceased to tobo bo he a n virtue Industrial freedom alike of ot laborers and employ IraIs being put farther anti and farther away III In thin this country by b the tho continued refusal ot of the tho latter to take n a stand against unionist or by their utter titter failure to 10 recognize tho the In III Inevitable evitable nd to prepare to meet It That Is III the tho situation from rota which em emit employers will hove hive hn to extricate them nt at rummy any cost It Is III bondage of the tho most galling character No less hess un tin unbearable bearable h Is the this position of nonunion working worl people To bo be compelled com lIea to put hut under the yolie of u it 1 society that binds hinds their freedom anti and makes them net act unjustly arid with fiendish to their fellows who sho shodo do not choose to put on those thosa thol chains chain Is III slavery Flavor of ot the tho most moat humiliating kind l Labor must bo be freed from front such lIuch fetters Employers unmet must run tun their own bust 1051 1055 Unions must keep keell within legitimate motile mate bounds Let those who will join them let those who will not Mt stay slay out Make Malce no discrimination d nation between bet wee II union tuition nonunion non workers unless the trouble begins front from union tyranny Then Ihen choose nonunion people veonie every eel time lIine It If there thero are ure disputes between working people and their employers let fair consultation be he had liAti I amid 1111 arbi arbitration when hell necessary htmL but let It be bo bobet between bet time the Individuals aggrieved or their representatives aunt and their employ employees eta ees e 8 hilt halt not with an on organization that to dictate both bolh capital anti labor anti and to dominate the whole sphere ot of human Industry There here need aced not ot be nay on fight of this description 11 I can bo lam conducted on oil lines compatible with right justice mind freedom Such organizations may unity maybe be maintained with benefit to 10 their members mr berA and without menace to so society ably olet No trouble will vili bo ho promoted by hy either employers or employed who do not Join them TIme Tile war that threat throat threatens cuts ens NI will vIll begin If nt at nil all from tho the on cn ninth by b the leaders of ot those societies In II attempts to 10 dictate capital anti oppressive s lve edicts against t nonunion labor Forces are being arrayed la lii readiness for such fluch a 1 and anti every oer eer lover of ot hIs hiI country will endeavor to render It unnecessary |
