Labor Unions and Blacklisting
The labor unions denounce the corporations for maintaining "black lists" against strikers and discharged employees whom they deem undesirable; but the unions themselves are, as far as possible, blacklisting every employer and employee, and every special product that does not bear the union label. Thus they are following in the wake of the great capitalists and trusts, whose methods they profess to oppose. But they go a little further; they not only set up the black list (otherwise called the boycott), but they set noisy "pickets" to call special attention to their victims. It is not surprising that the unions and the capitalist oppressors unite to monopolize the business and the labor of the country, and to crush the great mass of laborers who believe in liberty and the small employers whose business can not stand the extortions of the labor unions. Verily these are days of oppression, and the Golden Rule is becoming more and more ruled out of industrial and commercial circles as well as the political and financial policies of the world.