Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-02

glneers ana nrelnen on the Toledo. Ann
Arbor and North Michigan was
paralyzed by a federal court injunc-
ton. Other disturbances followed and
were settled in like fashion. until
Judge Jenkins actually restrained the
employees Of the Northern Pacific from
quitting the service of the company,
because of a reduction of wages, under
penalty of being adjudged guilty of
contempt of court and committed to
jail. The railway companies exclaimed
in one voice "Eureka!' The problem
OF problems was solved. Here
after they might reduce wages, treat
employees as they saw fit, and they
would have to submit. Government by
injunction was now established, and
the managers were supreme, while the
employees were helpless. How perfect
ly the scheme worked, the great Pull
man strike bore haggard testimony. The
federal courts, the federal soldiers, the
deputy marshals, in fact, all the tre-
mendous powers of the government,
were promptly brought into requisition
to crush the employees, and it was all
done by the application of government
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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
impossible. Railroad managers have
things absolutely their own way.
Should employees quit work in a body.
injuncttons would probably be issued
and they would be sent to Jail without
trial. Employees know this. and how
ever calling the yoke, they submit.
They can do nothing else. Managers
a-e no longer annoyed with committees.
Agreements have been arbitrarily
abrogated and men reduced to slavish
conditions.
The election Of Mckinley means the
perpetuation Of government by injunc-
ton. the supremacy of corporations.
and the helpless, hopeless subsection OF
employees. 1t will not be confined to
railroad corporations in its enslaving
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.
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 rights to resist reduction and
injustice by the lawful means provid-
ed by their organizations.
The railway corporations are unit
ed and have massed all their tremen-
dous powers to crush him. This in it
self is indisputable proof that he is the
friend of the workingmen. In saying
this, the genuine keynote of the rail-
road campaign has been struck. 1t
startles like alarm bells at night. There
is no mistaking the issue. Its gravity
cannot be overestimated. 1t involves
the very existence of organized labor.
the bulwark and defense Of working
men against corporate tyranny, which,
if 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 immeasurably
above the corrupting influences of COR
porations, who has earned the conf
dence and gratitude of all railway en-
ployes for his unyielding defense of
their rights, upon whose fair name
there is no scar or blemish, Henry c.
Caldwell, has declared that the nom
ination of William ]. Bryan is the
greatest since Lincoln. We heartily
concur in the declaration of this hon
est, fearless and distinguished jurist.
In view of all these facts-facts of
tremendous import which cannot be
successfully controverted we pledge
our united and unwavering support to
William ]. Bryan for president. and
appeal to railway employees and all
workingmen to join with us in rebuk-
ing corporate tyranny which attempts
to wrest the sacred right of suffrage
from employees, in abolishing govern
ment by injunction and in securing
and maintaining every right of citi-
zenship vouchsafed by the constitu-
ton Of our country.
EUGENE v. DEBS,
JAMES HOGAN,
SYLVESTER KELIHER,
R. M. GOODWIN,
M. ]. ELLIOTT,
WILLIAM E. BURNS,
Board Of Directors American Rail-
way Union.