A Lesson

to Learn

It is a lesson which cannot be learned too soon or too thoroughly, that, under this Government of and by the people, the means of redress of all wrongs, are through the courts and at the ballot box, and that no wrong, real or fancied, carries with it legal warrant to invite as a means of redress the cooperation of a mob with its accompanying acts of violence.

(Justice David J. Brewer, U. S. Supreme Court.)

A MONTHLY PUBLICATION BY THE NATIONAL FOUNDERS' ASSOCIATION AND NATIONAL METAL TRADES ASSOCIATION IN THE INTEREST OF MEMBERS AND THEIR Workmen.

WHEN UNION CROOKS FALL OUT.

Warfare Between Rival Labor Unions in Chicago Brings
to Light Overwhelming Evidence in Support of
Claims of Employers. Union Sluggers
Now Killing Each Other.

If the general public ever needed the slightest additional evidence in support of the assertions so often made by employers throughout the country that the labor unions of today were officered by men who cared little or nothing for law, who were in the habit of hiring criminals to slug and maim and kill nonunion workmen, whose familiarity with the methods of the "gun man" were much more pointed than their familiarity with the home and firesidethat evidence has been furnished in an overwhelming quantity by the recent warfare in which these union sluggers have engaged themselves in Chicago.

In common with many others, the National Metal Trades Association and the National Founders' Association feel that they should give such men as the McNamaras the benefit of the legal doubt and presume them innocent until proven guilty. But when an attempt is made to assert that by no possibility could these men be guilty, the line must be drawn. The evidence of "possibility" is far too strong.

Far too many of that class of men, holding positions similar to those held by McNamara, have been engaging in that sort of crime, and one need not go outside the ranks of the machinists or molders union to find evidence of it. That much of this evidence has not been placed properly before a court of competent jurisdiction is due solely to such despicable conditions as have been disclosed by the late prosecution of the political boss of a southern Ohio city. When one comprehends the disclosures made in this prosecution, showing the ironclad grip on the courts and prosecuting attorneys which these political bosses possess, one can very readily comprehend how it would be possible for the president of a union, who hires an apprentice boy to place dynamite in a mold made by a nonunion man, to escape being brought to justice and serving his time behind the bars.

Chicago.

During the many strikes in Chicago in which union. machinists, molders, and all other craftsmen have been engaged these many years, employers have asserted time and again that the unions were hiring "entertainment committees," "slugging crews," and like weapons to intimidate, maim, murder, and put out of the way those nonunion workmen who might take the places of strikers. To each charge of this nature the unions have professed a childlike innocence, and attorneys have been found, who, for a few paltry dollars of the hard-earned cash of the union laborer, would prostitute their calling by defending these criminals in the courts and then appear before local union meetings and proclaim the spotless character of all union leaders.

Employers and the officials of their defense associations have known of this reign of crime for years; they have done their level best to convict the criminals; in some cases they have been most successful, but now the daily newspaper is

beginning to see the light of day, to realize its duty, and is coming to the front with exposure after exposure, but in doing so is treating the subject as a brand new discovery, termed in newspaperdom a "scoop," or as something "exclusively reported." There is nothing new in any of this literature which the newspapers are now giving to the public for the first time; it is as old as the American labor union, and will continue a part of it until the American people rise in their wrath and demand a cleansing of this cesspool of iniquity.

Altman and Gentleman Cases.

The Altman and Gentleman cases in Chicago have disclosed more of the filth of unionism in that city than a cyclone of public sentiment could have disclosed within the course of a natural lifetime.

Altman was a notorious union slugger in the pay of the officials of several labor organizations; at one time he testified that he had been hired by the molders' union. Gentleman was a "pal" of Altman, but another worthy by the name of Enright seems to have been the most expert gun man of the trio for, as a result of the war in which the sympathizers of these three have been engaged for several months, he is the only survivor.

The Chicago Tribune is now giving considerable space to these cases. It says that two men shot Vincent Altman, labor slugger, to death in the Briggs house bar on March 22, and the evidence already before the grand jury, taken in conjunction with the testimony that will be offered, pins the crime upon Maurice ("Mossy") Enright and William ("Dutchy") Gentleman, who was later on, killed by Enright.

Attorneys retained in the defense of Enright are going to furnish the witnesses which the state's attorney believes will entirely clear up the mystery of the death of Altman.