The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-07

TIE BOYCOTT THIEVRRY.


punishment for the same, cannot be main
tanned, for the reason that the members of the
union cannot expect to command the SYM
pathy Of the public in it, and without the in
dorsernent of the people it cannot stand. The
men in question were convicted of having
boycotted certain concert saloon, the bust
ness Of which they sought to ruin for some
reason satisfactory to themselves, but not IN
accordance with law and order Not content
with boycotting the place, these gentlemanly
highwaymen compelled the proprietor to pay
over to them the sum of 81 900, for some rea-
son or other, in accordance with the rules
and usages of the organization to which they
belonged. They not only interfered with his
business directly, but put their hands into
his pockets and robbed him of the money they
demanded. Never was highway robbery more
fagrantly perpetrated than on this occasion.
Had they placed pistols at their victims head
and babe him deliver they would not have had
him more completely at theirmercy, nor would
the robbery have been more complete. There
can be little doubt that the men employed in
the boycott were Of the kind, by nature or
education, that constitute that class Of people
who make their living at the expense of hon
est men. They were little, if any better than
recognized thieves and would doubtless have
hoap avoided ixy INV WON ~ oorpr, ~ ovpnca
himself to violence. After hearing the evil
dence and receiving the verdict of the jury
that they were guilty as charged, Judge Bar
rett very promptly and very properly SEN
fenced them to the renitentiary, where, it is
to be hoped, they will remain till they serve
their time.
Comes now the Central Labor Union COM
planning that they were not tried by a jury
of their ''peers," in that they were not tried
by a jury composed of laboring men, as the
members of the union interpret that term.
After reciting this fact. the union proceeds in
series Of resolutions to declare that instead
of putting an end to the practice of boycotting
this will only incite them to 'smake it more
effectual and unrelenting in the future
There is a good deal of buncombe in THIS,
doubtless and the men who passed the reso-
luton do not mean exactly what they say.
The fact that four Of their fellows have been
sent to the penitentiary will have dampen-
ing effect upon them. The conviction of
these boycotters has the unqualified approval
of all honest men inside and outside of the
labor unions, so that public sentiment
indorses the action of the court The
day of the infamous boycott is at an end,
and nothing can again make it appear re-
spectacle. 1t is useless to pass resolutions in
dorsing it, for the people of this country will
have mono of it, and will not submit to the
tyranny that has been displayed by the high
waymen who have been masquerading as
workingmen. With the boycott legitima-
tized, freedom of the individual is at an end,
and everything is placed at the mercy Of such
organizations as may see fit to arrogate to
themselves the fright to say what other men
81 all be obliged to do whether they wish to
or not. and without reference to the laws of
the country.
That this Isl the feeling of the members Of
the labor union that met and passed the reso-
that they Endorsed and unanimously voted to
give to the public resolution passed by the
Concord Labor Union, which was as follows:
Believing that George Ehret, the brewer,
has been instrumental in prosecuting and per-
scouting workingmen, we request that all
trades represented in the Central Labor Union
refrain from patronizing any one selling the
beer of said George Ehret."
The significance of this new boycott is that
the courts shall not only be defed and the
law Knocked at, but that the processes of
justice shall be crippled. It is the evident
intention of these law. breakers to terrorize
witnesses so that they will not testify against
any man or men who may take it upon them
selves to exercise tyrannical rights in this
free land. II is thus made the more apparent
that it is the intention of the men who as
sumo to represent the labor unions of New
York that the law shall not be allowed to
stand between them and the victims Of their
imperial displeasure. The resolution quoted
means that they intend to try to paralyze the
courts and to run things to suit themselves.
These banded ''workingmen" who have sought
this country to enjoy the benefits of the
same, are arrayed against the law and its en-.
forcement, and expect to introduce a reign of
lawlessness 1t is their evident purpose to