The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-04

| injunction was now established, and
the managers were supreme, while the
! employees were helpless. How perfectly
! the scheme worked, the great Pullman
strike bore haggard testimony. The
/ federal courts, the federal soldiers, the
1 deputy marShalS, in fact, all the ire
mendous powers of the government
were promptly brought into requisition
! to crush the employees, and it was all
done by the application of government
by injunction. There have been sweep.
ing reductions of wages since, amount
ing to millions, but there has been no
protest. There is not likely to be any
protest while government by injunction
continues Unconditional submission is
the order of the day.
EVEN ARBITRATION IS DENIED,
and, in fact, has been made impossi-
bic. Railroad managers have things alb
so.Htely their own way. Should en-
ployees cult work in body, injunc-
tons would probably be issued and they
would be sent to jail without trial. This
is what has happened and what will
| happen again. Employees know this,
and however calling the yoke, they sub
! nit They can do nothing else. Man
ayers are no longer annoyed with COM
mittees. Agreements have been arbi-
trarily abrogated and men reduced to
slavish conditions. No doubt some of
| these employees will deny these state
ments Their jobs will depend on their
doing so. Corporation hirelings will do
! likewise, but the facts are of Pike s
! Peak proportions and defy successful
contradiction. Not long since the en-
ployes of the Plant System, at Savan-
nah, Ca, repudiated and denounced
/ the American Railway Union. The
! company prepared the statement and
compelled the employees to sign it, I'M
4 der pain of dismissal. We have the
| documents to prove the assertion. Can
4 corporate despotism go farther, or the
1 abasement Of employees be sunk lower
/ The election of Mckinley means the
/ perpetuation of government by injunc-
I ton,
THE SUPREMACY OF CORPORA
TIONS,
and the helpless, hopeless subsection
of employees. It will not be confined
to railroad corporations in it's enslav-
ing operations. All other corporations,
trusts and combines will claim it's ben
eficent protection, and therefore all
workingmen, especially those who are
organized, are profoundly concerned
in this issue.
Ex-President Harrison and Bourke
Cochran, both corporation attorneys,
strenuously defended government by
Injunction in their New York speeches.
il Is worth millions of dollars to rail-
road companies, and all comes out of
the pockets of employees.
American railroads consist largely of
British gold and American labor. Gov
eminent by injunction crowns the
former king, and makes the latter his
subject.
The platform upon which William j.
Bryan stands is pledged to abolish this
despotic usurpation of judicial power,
and restore to railway employees their
lawful right to resist reduction and in
justice by the lawful means provided
by their organizations.
The railway corporations are united
and have Gnassed all their tremendous
powers to crush him. This in Itself is
indisputable proof that he is the friend
OF workingmen. In saying this, the
genuine keynote of the railroad cam
paign has been struck. 1t starties ike
alarm bells at night. There is no mis-
taking the issue. Its gravity cannot be
over-estimated. 1t involves the very
existence of organized labor, the bull
wark and defense of workingmen
swept away, leaves them shorn of every
vestige of power, and totally at the
mercy of corporate capital.
The one federal judge who has proven
himself to be imIneas'ura'bly above the
corrupting influences of corporations,
who has earned the confidence and graf
itude of all railway employees for his
unyielding defense of their rights, upon
whose fair name there is no scar or
blemish, Henry c.. Caldwell. has de-
clared that the nomination of William