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Show Some people swell up on- "emotion " hrewed from absolute untruth. Tt 's an .bid trick of The leaders of the Labor Trust to twist facts and make the "sympathetic ones" "weep at tho ice house." (That's part of the talo further on.) Gompors ct al sneer at, spit liponiand defy our courts, seeking- sympathy by falsely telling the people the courfs were trying to deprivo them of free spppch and free press. ' " Men can speak freely and print opinions opin-ions freely in this country and no court will obieef. but tho3' cannot be allowed to print matter as part of a criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin other citrons. Gompers and his trust associates started out to ruin the Bucks Stove Co.. drivo its hundreds of workmen out of work aud destroy the value- of the nlant without regard to, the fact, that hard earned monev of men who worked, had been invrsted there. Tho consnirators were told' by the rourts to stop these vicious "trust" methods, (efforts to break the firm that won't come under trust rule), but in? stead of storming they "dare" the courts to punish them in such destructive destruct-ive and tyrannous acts as thoy may do-sire do-sire to, do. Tho reason Gompors Gomp-ors and his band nersistcd in trying to ruin tho Bucks Stove Works was because, be-cause, the stove compan- insisted on the riftht to keen some old emnlovccs .'i work when "de union" ordorcd them discharged aud some of "dc gang" put in. Now let us reverse -tho conditions and have a look. Suppose tho company had ordered the union to dismiss certain men from their union, and. the demand being ro-fnsod, ro-fnsod, should institute a boycott against that union, riublish if h name in 'an "unfair "un-fair list." instruct other manufacturers all ovor the United States not to buy the labor of that union, have commit-tees commit-tees cU at stores and threaten to boy-colt boy-colt if tho merchants sold anything made bv that union,' picket tho factories fac-tories where members work and slug them on the wav homo, blow up their houses aud -wreck the works, and even murder a for members of the bovcofted union to teach them thev must obey tho orders of "organized Oanital?" It would rertainly be fair for the omnany tn do these things if lawful 7or tho Labor Trust to do them. Tn such a case, under our laws the bovontted union could apply to our courts and ihe courts would order the oompnny to cease 'boycotting and try-innr try-innr ti ruin (heso xmion men. Suppose thereupon the company should snoer at the court and in open defiance continue Iho unlawful acts in a persistent, enre-fully enre-fully laid out plan, purposely intended to ruin the union and force its members mem-bers into poverty. What, a howl would fi up from Iho union demanding thnt lm foui'N protect them nnd punish their inw-Waking oppressors. Then they would prajse the ronrt and go on carri-inr carri-inr a livinn protected from- ruin and happy in tho knowledge that the peo' pie's courts could defend them. ' How coiild anv of us receive prolcc-rion prolcc-rion from law-breakers unless the courts have power tn. and to punish such. men 7 The court is placed in position wliere it must do one thing or the other punish men who persist in defying its peace crdors or go out of sorvico, let rnarchy reign and tho moro powerful daeroy tf e weaker. Poareablc cjtizens .sustain tho o.ourla rs their defenders, whoreas thieves, forgcrK, burglars, crooks of all kinds nnd violent members of labor unions, hate them nnd threaten violenco if their members are punished for breaking the law. They want the court to let them go free and at the snmo time demand punishment for other men "outside dc union" when they break the law. " Notice the above reference 'is tn " violent; ' members, of labor tinions. The w groat majority of the "unheard" union mon are peaceable, upright citizens. The noisv, violent ones got into office, and the lenders of the erent Lnbor Trusl know how' to mass this kind of men, ir labor conventions and thus carry out I the .lenders schemes, frequently abhor-! renii-to tho rank and-file; so it was at tire In to Toronto convention. The paid delegates would applaud and "resolute" as Gompors wanted, but now and then some of the roal work-ingnien work-ingnien insist on being beard, some-times i at the risk of thoir lives. Delegate Etran is reported to havo said at the Toronto convention: "If the officers of the federation would only adhere to the law we would think a lot more of them." Tlie Grand Council of tho Provincial Workingmen 's Association of Canada has .declared in favor of severing- all connection with unions in the United Spates, sa.yiug "any union having its. seat of government in America, and pretending to be international in its scope, must fight industrial battles according ac-cording to American methods. Said methods have consequences which are abhorrent to the law-abiding people oT Canada, involving hunger, misery, riot, bloodshed and murder, all of which might' be termed a result of the prac,' lical war now in progress, in our fair, province and directed by foreign emissaries emis-saries of the United Miners of America.'' Amer-ica.'' This is an honest Canadian view of bur infamous "'Labor Trust." A few days ago tho daily papers printed the following: (By the Associated Press.) Washington, D. C, Nov. 10. Characterising Char-acterising the attitude of Samuol Gomp-crs. Gomp-crs. John Mitchell and Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor in the contempt proceedings in the courts of the District of Columbia, in connection with tho Bucks' Stove and Range company, as a "willful, premeditated premedi-tated .violation of the law," Simon Burns, general master workman of the genoral assembly, Knights of Labor, has voiced a severe condemnation of those three leaders. Mr. Burns expressed ex-pressed his confidence in courts in general gen-eral and in those of 1ho District of Columbia Co-lumbia in particular. Approved by Delegates. This rebuke bv Burns was in his annual an-nual report: to tho general assembty of his organization. Ho received the hearty approval of the delegates who heard it read at their annual meeting in this city. " There is no trust or combination of capital in ihe world," said Mr. Burns, "that . violates laws oftcner than do the trust labor organizations, which resort re-sort to more dishonest, unfair and dishonorable dis-honorable me'thods toward thoir competitors compet-itors than any trust or combinations, in the country." Mr. Burns said tho action of "these so-called leaders" would bo harmful for years to come whenever attempts were made to obtain labor legislation. "T1iq Labor Digest," a reputable workingman'R paoor, sa3's, as part of an article entitled "The beginning of, tho end of Oomperism, many organizations becoming tired of the rulc-or-ruin policies poli-cies which have boen enforced hy tho president of the A. F. of L." 'That ho has maintained his leadership leader-ship for f.o long a time in tho face of hia stubborn clinging to policies which the more thoughtful of tho working-. working-. men have seen for years must "be abandoned, aban-doned, has been on account partly of tho sentimental feeling on the part of ; the organizations that ho ought, not to bo deposed and the unwillincness of tho men who were mentioned for the place, ; to accent a nomination in opnosition to , him. In nddition to this, thcro is no i denying tho shrewdness of the leador of . the A. F. of L and his political sagacr ity, which has enabled him to keep n firm grip on the machinery of the or-i or-i ganizntion and to havo 'his faithful I henchmen in tho positions where thoy could do him the moat good whenever thoir services might bo needed, i , "Further than this, ho has never s failed, at Iho last conventions, to have i some sensation to spring on the conven-s conven-s tion at tho psychological moment, which 1 would place him in tho light of a martyr i totho cause of unionism, nud excite a i wave of sympathetic enthusiasm for him, which would carry tho delegates off, their, feet,- and result in his re-olec-tion. "That his long leadership, and this apparent impossibility to fill his place lias gone to his head, aud nia-lo him imagine that he is a much greater man than bo really is, is undoubtedly the case, and accounts for the tactics he Ins adopted in dealing with questions-before questions-before congress, where ho has unncccs-saiily unncccs-saiily antagonized men to whom organized orga-nized labor must look for recognition recogni-tion of their demands, and where labor nif-asurcs arc ofton opposed on account of this very antagonism, which would otherwise receive support. "There is no doubt bu what organized labor in this country would be much stronger with a. loader who was rnorn in touch with conditions as they actually exist, aud who would bnnp to the front tho new policies which organized labor must adopt if it expects to even maintain its present standing, to Bay nothing of making future progress." We quote portions of another article, a reprint, from the same labor paper: "Organized labor, through its leaders, must, rccoguizc the mistakes of the past if thoy expect, to perpetuate their organizations or-ganizations or to develop tho movement which', they head. ' No movement, no organi7ftt:on, no nation can develop beyond the intellects which guide these organizations,' nnd if the leaders arc dominated by a selish motive the organization or-ganization will becomo tinged with a spirit of selfishness, which has never appealed to mankind in any walk of life at any time since history began. "It can be said in extenuation of certain cer-tain leaders of organized lnbor that the j-reeanous conditiou which they occup3' as leaders has'had a tendency o cause them to loBe sight of tho object behind be-hind the organization. Tho natural instinct in-stinct in man for power and position is in no small measure responsible for the mistakes of the leaders, not neces-sarilj neces-sarilj in labor unions alone, bu: in every branch of socioty. This desire for power nnd leadership and personal aggn;ndjzemcnt causes men who havo been earnest and since.ro in their e.Tortp in ihc ptnrt to deteriorate into mere politicians whose every act and utterance utter-ance is tinged with the desire to cater to tho baser passions of the working majority in the societies or organizations, organiza-tions, and this is undoubtedly true when applied to tho present leaders of the Federation of Labor. We mention the Federation of Labor particularly in this article because that organization is the only organization of labor which has yet found itself in direct opposition to the laws of tho land, Thero are other organizations 'of labor whose IcaderH havo made mistakes, but they have always al-ways kept thomHelves and their organizations organi-zations within tho bounds of the Inw and respected tho rights of every other; man in considering the rights of themselves them-selves and their constituency: whereas, tho motto of the Federation is just the reverse, and unless the leaders conform themselves and their organization in accordance -with tho laws of tho land, the leaders of the organization itself must be disintegrated nnd phBs into history, for in Amorica the common Konec in mankind is developed to a greater extent than in any other nn-tion nn-tion on the earth, and tho people, who are tho court of last resort in this count try, will never allow any; system to develop in this country which does not meet with the npprovn'l of the majority of the citizens of tho country. "This must havo forced itself upon the .leaders of the Federation by this time: Tf it has not. the. leaders must be olimipated. Tho organization vhich they head has 'dono man meritorious things in times post, and tho people nrc always ready and willing to acknowledge acknowl-edge the benefits which their offortB havo brought to thoir constituency as a whole, but at the present timo labor organizations iu genera, and tho Federation Fede-ration -of Labor in particular, ptnnd bo-foro bo-foro the bar of public opinion, having been convicted of selfishness and a disposition dis-position to rule all tho people of the country in the interest of the few. The peoplo aro pationt and awaiting to see if tho object lesson which thoy have been forced to give to these, leaders is going to be recognized and,. if thoy aro going to conform themselves and their future work and actions in accordance ac-cordance thereto," Let the people remember that comment, com-ment, "Tho Federation of Lnbor in particular stands beforo the bar of public opinion, having been convicted of selfishness and a disposition to rule all tho peoplo of tho country in the interest in-terest of the few." The great 90 per cent of Americans do not take kindly to tho acts of tyranny by these trust leaders openly demanding thafyall people bow down (o tho rules of the Labor Trust, and we aTO treated to the humiliating spectacle of our congress, nnd even the chief executive entertaining theso convicted law-breakers and listening with consideration con-sideration to their insolent demands that tho vory laws bo changed to allow them to safely carry op their plan of gaining control over tho affairs of the people. Tho sturdy workers of America havo come to know tho truth about these martyrs .sacrificing themselves in the noble cause of labor," but it'F only the hysterical ones who swell up and clover cl-over the aforesaid "heroes," reminding one of the two romantic oldcrly maids who. weeping copiously, were discovered by the old janitor at"Mt. Vernon. "What is it ails you. ladies?" Taking the handkerchief from one swollon rod eye, between sabs sha said: "Why, we have so long revered the memory of George Washington that we feel it a privilege to come hare and weep at his tomb." "Yes'm, yas'm, yo' shore has a dc-siro dc-siro to express yo' sympathy, but vo' arc overflowin' at. dc wrong spot; yo'' is wcepin' at do ice house." Don't get maudlin about lawbreakers, lawbreak-ers, who must be punished if the very oxistenco of our people is to be maintained. Tf you havo any surplus sympathy it can bo extended to the honest workers who continue to earn food when threatened, and are frequently hurt nnd sometimes killed before the courts can intervene to protect them. Now the Labor Trust, lenders demand of congress that tho courts bo stripped of .power to issue injunctions to prevent pre-vent them from assaulting or perhaps murdering men who dare earn a living when ordered by the Labor Trust to quit work. "Don't weep at tho Jco House" and don't permit any set of law-breakers to bully our courts, if your voice and vote can prevoiit. Be sure and write your representatives and senators in congress, asking them not. to vote for any measure to prevent tho courts from protecting homes, property and persons from attack bj' paid agonts of this great Labor Trust. Let every reader write, and write-now. write-now. Don't sit silent and allow the organized orga-nized and paid men of this erent trust to force congress to believe thay represent repre-sent the "treat masses of the American .people. Sav your say aud lot your representatives rep-resentatives in congress know that vou do not want-to bo goveruod under new lawa which would empower the Labor Trust leaders with le?al Hght to tell you when to work I Where! For w.homl At what pi'icel What to buy! What not to buy! Whom to vote for! How much you shall pay per month in foes to the Labor Trust! etc., etc., etc. This powor is now being demanded by the passnge. of laws in congress. Tell your senators and representatives plainly that; you don't want them to voto for any measure that will allow any sot of men, either representing Capital or Labor, to govern and dictate to (he common people, who prefer to be freo to go nnd como, work or not, and voto for whom they ploase. Every man'H liberty will disappear when the leadern of the great Labor Trust or any other trust can ride rough shod over people and mass their forces to prevent our courts from affording protection. " Thero 's n reason." C. W. POST, Battle Creek. Mich. |