Show SAFETY OF UNION AT Al STAKE T. T The steel l strike strike t has h has t thrown rown four four hundred thousand men out out of r work The rhe point at Issue Is the refusal of th the steel company to recognize the tho union in preference to any other honest hon lion est st workman The fight Is on for the tho closed shop whereby a free tree man In America must join a n class organization before he can work and an employer Is denied the right of hiring a competent workman workman workman work work- man who does not belong to such an organization This is not a fight on union ideas It Is a n fight tight for tOle the I preservation of freedom of the individual in America If by superior arguments all the steel el workers can be induced to Join the union there Is no reasonable grounds grounds for complaint and if the union union un un- ion fon and the steel company fail fall to settle settle settle set set- tle grievances the union members have the American privilege of king But when the union says to tho the steel steel company you must hire none but members of our union It Is goIng going going go- go Ing too far as it thereby attempts to set aside the very rights guaranteed b by our constitution to every man man woman woman woman wo wo- wo- wo man and child In this nation Labor organizations have had the sympathy of the public in their endeavor endeavor endeavor en en- deavor to better living working and wage conditions but these organizations organizations organizations have become drunk on their own p power until today If their slightest slight slight- est demands are not granted the they do donot donot donot not hesitate to Jeopardise the very safet safety of ot the nation to gain their point The public has seen the danger danger danger dan dan- ger In the threatened railroad strike when our country was at war The nation as a whole Is face to face with a radical labor autocracy which threatens to crush and destroy with as ruthless a hand as did ever German military autocracy If labor unions cannot exist without without without with with- out denying the right of working to a aman aman aman man who does not belong to some particular union or without demandIng demanding demanding demand demand- ing that an employer hire none but certain specified union members It is time this class of unions were eliminated eliminated eliminated else they will destroy the very foundation principles of this govern govern- ment If It a man can be forced to Join a certain er n n union or class organization before an employer is allowed to hire him It is only a step farther until he can be forced to Join a designated church or political party as a conditIon condition condition condit condit- ion precedent to getting a Job Ours is a government for all the people not for an any class or p privileged few When a handful of of labor dictators demand the right to tell a man where and when he can cart work and an employer employer employer em em- whom he may employ it is time that honest laboring men as well as every other citizen with the best interest of his country at heart expresses expresses expresses ex ex- ex- ex presses his disapproval of such acts The Boston police strike showed to what lengths these labor dictators would go and th the public received Its first real taste of what to expect if such policies are to be unchecked The issue Is clean cut in this case If the U. U S. S Steel Co can be f forced to hire none but employees of a certain certain certain tain union It will be but a short time time before every workman in this nation must swear allegiance to some partIcular particular particular ular organization before he can get et a ajob ajob ajob job and his allegiance to that union would have to come before his allegiance allegiance alleg alleg- lance to the Union of the United States as has been clearly proved In Inthe Inthe inthe the management of the railroad unions unIons unions un un- ions the shipbuilders unions the attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted police union and numerous others during and since e the war One thing Is sure sure the unions are Ignoring the greatest force In the world the force of public opinion |