Show Ul Dont Don't Weep At res A a Ice IceHouse iry 1 The House re hoo S I 0 Sh Some omo people sW swell ll up on motion emotion brewed from absolute untruth Its It's an old trick of the leaders of the Labor Trust to twist facts and make the sympathetic ones weep at the Ice house That's part of the tale further on Gompers et Ct al sneer at spit upon and defy our courts seeking sympathy by falsely telling the people the courts were tr trying ing to deprive them pf free I speech and free press Men can speak freely and print opinIons opinIons opinions ions freely in this country and no court will object but they cannot be allowed to print matter as part of a criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin other citizens Gompers and his trust associates started out to ruin the Bucks Ducks Stove Co drive its hundreds of workmen out of work and destroy the value of the plant without regard to the fact that hard earned money of men who worked had been invested there The conspirators were told by the courts to stop these vicious trust m methods efforts to break the firm that hat wont won't come under trust rule but Instead of stopping they dare the courts to punish them and demand new laws to protect them in such destructive destructive destructive de de- de- de and tyrannical acts as they may desire to do The reason Gompers and his band persisted in tryIng tryIng trying try- try Ing to ruin the Bucks Stove Works was because the stove company insisted insist insist- ed on the right to keep some old employees employees employees em em- at af work when do de union ordered ordered ordered or or- dered them discharged and some of de gang put on Now let us reverse the conditions and have a look I Suppose the company had ordered the union to dismiss certain men from their union and the demand being refused refused refused re re- re- re fused should institute a boycott against that union publish its name In an unfair list instruct other manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers man man- all over the United States not to buy the labor of that union have committees call at stores and threaten to boycott if the merchants sold anything made by that union Picket the factories where members work and slug them on the way home blow up their ho houses ses and wreck the works and even murder a few members members mem mem- bers hers of the boycotted union to teach they must obey the orders of organized Capital It would certainly be fair fall for the company to do these things If if lawful for the Labor Trust to do them In such a case under our laws the boycotted union could apply to our courts and the courts courts courts' would order the tho comp company ny to cease boycotting and trying to ruin these union men Suppose Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose thereupon the company should sneer at the c court urt and in open defiance continue the unlawful acts in a persistent persistent persistent per per- carefully laid out plan purposely purposely purposely pur pur- intended to ruin the union and force its members into poverty What a howl would go up from the union demanding that the courts protect protect protect pro pro- them and punish their lawbreaking law break ing lug oppressors oppressor Then they would praise the courts and go go goon on earning a living protected from ruin and happy in the knowledge that the peoples people's courts c could ud defend them How dow could any of us receive protection protection protection tion from la law breakers unless the courts have power to and do punish such men The court Is placed in position where It must do one thing or the other other other- punish men who persist In defying its peace orders or go out of service let anarchy reign and the more powerful destroy the weaker Peaceful citizens sustain the courts as their defenders as thieves forgers burglars crooks of all aU kinds and violent members of labor unions hate them and threaten violence if their members are punished for breakIng breakIng break- break Ing lag the law They want the courts to let them go free freo and at the same timed time d demand mand punishment for other oIlier men outside outside outside out side de union when they break the law Notice the above reference reference refer refer- ence mice to violent members of labor unions The great majority of ot the unheard union men are peaceable upright citizens The noisy violent I ones get into office and the leaders of or orthe 1 the great Labor Trust know how to tomass tomass mass this kind of men in labor conventions conventions con con- and thus carry out the leaders leaders' leaders leaders' leaders leaders' lead lead- ers' ers schemes frequently abhorrent to the rank and file so it was at the late Toronto convention The paid delegates would applaud and resolute as Gompers wanted but now and then some of the real workingmen workingmen workingmen work- work ingmen insist on being heard beard sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times at the risk of their lives Delegate Egan is reported to have 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 The Grand Council of the Provincial Workingmen's of Canada has declared in favor of or severing all connections con con- with unions in the U. U S. S sayIng sayIng say say- Ing any union having its seat of in America and pretending to be international in its scope must fight industrial battles according to American Ameri Amen can methods Said methods have consequences consequences consequences con con- sequences which are abhorrent to the law-abiding law people of Canada Involving hunger misery riot bloodshed and murder all of which might be termed as a result of the practical war now in progress In our fair fall provinces and directed by foreign emissaries of the United Miners of America That is an honest Canadian view of our infamous Labor Trust A few days das ago the daily dally papers printed the following By the Associated Press Washington D. D C. C Nov 10 Char Char Characterizing the attitude of Samuel Gompel'S Gompers Gom Gem pens pers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison Morrison Mor Mor- rison risen of the American Federation of Labor in the proceedings Inthe in inthe inthe the courts of the District of Columbia in connection with the Bucks Bucks' Stove and range company as a willful premeditated premeditated premeditated pre pre- meditated violation of the law Simon Burns general master workman of the general assembly Knights of Labor has voiced a severe severe condemnation of these three leaders Mr Burns expressed expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex pressed his confidence in courts in general general general gen gen- eral and in those of the District of Columbia in particular BY fly DELEGATES This rebuke by Burns was in his annual annual annual an an- nual report to the general assembly of his organization He Hel 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 the world said Mr Burns I that violates laws oftener than do the trust labor organizations which resort to more dishonest unfair and dishonorable dishonorable dishon dishon- enable methods toward their competitors tors than any trust or combinations In Inthe Inthe inthe the country Mr 1 Burns said the action of these so-called so leaders would be harmful for Cor years to come whenever attempts were made to obtain labor legislation The Labor Dabor Digest a reputable workingman's paper says as part of an article entitled The beginning of the end of many organizations organizations organ organ- becoming tired of the rule rule-or- ruin policies which have been enforced enforced enforced en en- forced by the president of the A. A F. F of L L. That he has maintained his leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship for so long a time in the face of his stubborn clinging to policies which the more thoughtful workingmen have se seen n for years must be abandoned has been on account partly of the sentimental sentimental sentimental senti senti- mental feeling on the part of the organizations organizations organizations or or- that he ought not to be deposed deposed deposed de de- de- de posed and the unwillingness of the themen themen men who were mentioned for the place to accept a nomination in opposition to him In addition to 10 o this there is no denying the shrewdness of the leader of the A. A F. F of L. L and his poll political sagacity sagacity sa sa- sa- sa which has enabled him to keep a firm grip on the machinery of the organization or or- and to have his faithful henchmen in the positions where they could do him the most good whenever their services might be needed Further than this he ho has never failed railed at the last conventions to have some sensation to spring on the convention convention con con- at the psychological moment which would place him in the light of ofa ofa ofa a martyr to the tho cause of unionism and excite a wave of sympathetic enthusiasm for him which would carry the delegates off oft their feet and result in his re That his long leadership and this apparent impossibility to fill his place has gone to his head and made him imagine that he is much greater a man manthan manthan manthan than he really reany is is undoubtedly the case and accounts for the tactics he has adopted in dealing with questions before congress where he has unnecessarily unnecessarily unnecessarily antagonized men to whom organized organized organized or or- labor must look for recognition recognition recognition tion of their demands and where labor measures are often opposed on account of this very antagonism which would otherwise There is no doubt but what organized organized organ organ- labor in this country would be beI I much stronger with a leader who was more in touch with conditions as they I actually exist and who would bring lothe to lo the front the new policies which organized organized organized organ organ- labor must adopt if it it expects to even eyen maintain its pr present sent standing to say nothing of making future progress We Ve quote portions of another article a reprint from the same labor paper Organized labor through its leadens leaders leaders lead lead- ers ens must recognize the mistakes of the thelast past last if they expect to perpetuate their organizations or to develop the movement movement move move- ment which they head No movement no organization no nation can develop beyond the intellects which guide these organizations and if the leaders are dominated by a selfish motive the organization will become tinged with witha 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 certain tam tain leaders of organized labor that tile the precarious position which they occupy occupy occupy oc oc- oc- oc cupy as leaders has had a tendency to cause them to lose sight of the object behind the organization The natural instinct in iii man for power and position is In no small measure responsible for forthe forthe forthe the mistakes of the leaders not necessarIly necessarily necessarily in labor unions alone but in every branch of society This desire for power and leadership and personal aggrandizement causes men who have hae been earnest and sincere In their efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts in the start to deteriorate into mere politicians whose every act and utterance Is tinged with the desire to cater to the baser passions of the working majority in the societies or organizations and this is undoubtedly true when applied to the tue present leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers of the Federation of Labor We mention the Federation of Labor particularly particularly par par- in this article because that organization Is the only organization of labor which has yet found Itself In Indirect Indirect indirect direct opposition to the laws of theland the land There are other organizations of labor whose leaders have made mistakes mistakes mis takes but they have always kept themselves themselves themselves them them- selves and their organizations within the bounds of the law and respected the rights of every other man In considering considering considering con con- the rights of themselves and their constituency whereas the motto of the Federation Is just the reverse and nd unless the leaders conform themselves themselves themselves them them- selves and their organization in accordance accordance accord accord- ance alice with the laws of the land the leaders and the organization itself must be disintegrated and pass into into- history for In America the common commonsense commonsense commonsense sense of mankind is developed to a greater extent than in any other nation on the earth and the people who are the court of last resort in this country will n never ver allow any system to develop In this country which does not meet with the approval of the majority of the citizens of the country This must have forced itself upon the leaders of the Federation by this time If it has not the leaders must be eliminated The organization which they head has done many meritorious things in times Umes past and the people a are are o always ready and willing to acknoWledge acknowledge ledge l- l edge the benefits which their efforts have brought to their constituency as asa asa asa a whole but at the present time labor organizations in general and the Federation Fed Feth of Labor In particular stand before the bar of public opinion havIng having haying hav- hav ing been convicted of selfishness and a disposition to rule all the people of the country In the Interest of the few The people are patient and awaiting to VU val see if the object lesson which have been forced arced to give to these out outers outers ers ens is going to be recognized and if It S Sare C are going to conform themselves ie e a their future work and actions Inton f fLet thereto j Let the people remember that y a. a ment The Federation of Labor to In stands before the bar of p jr Tn Th opinion having been convicted o of ien en and a disposition to r rul the people of the country In the I In I Iest Iest Iest est of the few pil The great 90 per cent of Amer nt do not take kindly to the acts br bi br tyranny of these trust leaders o OJ M demanding that all aU people bow don ds the rules of the Labor Trust and anft j F are treated to the humiliating E Ecle ip sp cle dc of our Congress and even the Mrs Mrs- Executive entertaining these w 1 1 law-breakers law and listening w with th esse to their Insolent demands lestic the very laws be changed to CAh sAh them to safely carry carryon on their plough ugh gaining control over the affairs dl d dj people j J disa The sturdy workers of America come to know the truth about if a a Iii lil martyrs sacrificing themselves bl iii noble cause of labor but Its It's a at hysterical ones who swell up a ail aate nl ni over the aforesaid heroes one of the two romantic elderly te who weeping copiously were dieted ered by the old janitor at Jit Mt V ht What is It ails aUs you ladles ladies w hi Taking the handkerchief fro swollen red eye between sobs shere II dan au Why have we so long rever memory of George Washington The we feel it a privilege to come her weep at his tomb VA iA A til tir yo yo shore has a dt df Wh to express yo sympathy but 1 jd yO at de wrong spot l ji ri at de do ice house Dont Don't get maud maudlin Un about law lawens law lif vandi ers ens who must be punished if the an existence of our people leople is to bel be bei- bei f tamed i for tor or orIf If you OU have any surplus can be extended to the honest was was c o who continue to earn cal food when k ened and are frequently hurt burU sometimes killed before the couri coUr J i intervene to protect them ucle Now the Labor Trust mand of Congress that the coal hote Q stripped of power to Issue Bel Bei to prevent them |