Show A SUGAR TRUST KINO KING HIS WORD IS LAW IN ALL THE TH refineries FIN EniES OF THE LAND to save rare a few dollars several dwen dozen more lore In borer will ino EC aasted in ilk ills fits protected Reni itry in an ol of the bo ioner er of trusts the terrible power of trusts to oppress labor is just now illustrated by me strike in tho elder refinery er y tho the largest refinery in tho the sugar trust and that means the largest in ill the world when a trust gains full control of an industry and can ly by the aid of a protective tariff control production and prices price as does the suar trust not only must 3 t the consumer suffer from froin extortion but bul tho the workingmen also sud find themselves subject to the tha tyranny of an all a almost 0 s t ol 01 omnipotent ard lot e nt or organization g a n iz ati on theoretically cally the laborer is still a free man inan but if ho he knows only ono one occupation ha h is practically a slave for fort there liero being no competition for his labor lio must bell it for whatever tho the almighty 0 at the tha head of tho the trust is 13 willing to lo pay the other alternative is starvation for him bim belf balf and his family tho the heat in the rooms room phero sugar is melted becomes intense in summer tho the unusual heat in which men are required to and tho the small pay allowed them by tho the for their services and risks has driven nearly all americans out of the refineries those employed now are mostly huns poles and italians many of them brought over under contract to work at low wages and to displace tho the americans americana at in this protected american industry over 2000 aro are employed employ cil in n tho the great elder refiner refinery y in brooklyn during the excessive heat of last summer the rooms in this refinery approached so nearly to an earthly hades that several hundred laborers were taken from the rooms more dead than alive a largo proportion of whom could not be resuscitated it ir ahmo had been other important refineries not in the hands of tho the trust the laborers could have thrown up their jobs indi individually or struck altogether with fair prospects of obtaining obtain in employment ele elsewhere where or of 0 termination of the strike dot but as they had to deal I 1 d with witha a sugar suar king kill g whose word was law in all the refineries of the land they must either submit to tho the heat and oppression or see their families starve they submitted this year with the renewal of last years conditions rooms heated to degrees strong men fainting ambulances hurrying back and forth from hospitals to the refinery deaths and funerals the c hief chief topics of conversation the laborers naturally beg begin rin to think of means of improving their hard lot ono hundred and two firemen and their helpers who are getting a day for 13 hours continuous on billu work timidly approach the sugar king tell him of their terrible experience last year remind hirn him that while they arel are kept at most severe work for 13 12 hours they get less wages than firemen and boiler men on steamships who are i i L i 0 1 uio 1 J ii 1 and anif then ti I 1 en ask that their ih cirbo hours u r s be be reduced r ec 1 nc e 1 from 13 12 to 8 they say that for this concession they are willing to work four boilers instead of three as now tile the kin king who is dressed in a li liblit lit colored sa s1 summer in m or suit and who is making Q 2000 0 0 0 a month clear profit for his royal family takes liis his cigar out of his mouth and informs his intruders that it would cost him a month to grant theli request and adds as tho the impudence of their pro proposition posit tion dawns upon him ill be damned dani if wo we will do it then said mr ir lyons tho the chairman of tho the committee if wa were willing to work for CO 50 cents for eight hours you would not allow it I 1 would v not said the king mr air lyons then explains the tha special reasons tor for their request tho the men cannot work 1 13 1 hours a lay day during the warm warin weather he be r sa last summer when meu men were carried front from the works overcome over como by heat and there therb were several dozen deaths we a were told that tbt that was the time to strike but wo di did 1 I not do it because we considered v we is v would bo be taking you at a disadvantage now alen we come to you to savo save us from a repetition of that experience you say til rii be ba damned if I 1 do the king icing is immovable and as the com cittee leaves the office orders tho the superintendent in to shut down the mixers and call tiptoe up tho police tho the commit committee tee turns and tells b him bim im 11 wo we aro arc not going to give you any trouble we lve resign we do nut The great potentate however who can purchase legislation and who thinks the occasion a good one to display his bis police force lias has his refinery surrounded by blue coats for several days he announces that it is a particularly fortunate timo fona strike as the trust frost has enough refined sugar to last three months and that tho the decreased production duo to tho the strike o will ill kielp to sustain prices the men ion have been out less than two v but their poverty and helpless neba a arnfast r c making thein abc m willing to again submit their bodies to the burning heat and to the tyranny of their former masters before buforo their places are filled by more suli submissive missive if not fireproof slaves un ported imported for the occasion great is ia protection and great greab is the trust king bynoe W volt HOLT |