The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-27
STILL SNEERING AT UNIONS.

Coarse vituperation is one of our
morning contemporary lesser vices.
Wilful Misrepresentation of an adver-
sarys position is its daily crime.
Referring TO the news item il found
in The Herald concerning the arrest Of
four Italians who had blown up
mine in the La Sal region, the Tribune
trusts that The Herald will denounce
the man who arrested them on the
ground that those dagoes We're doing
their fellow workmen a favor by des-
troying the property of their employ
ers.
All this is a begging of the question,
q misstatement of our position, a
cowardly attempt of the Tribune to
crawl out of the hole it belongs in, a
malicious and unwarranted hken-
ing of those Italian brigands to the
members of labor unions all over the
United States.
This is not the first time our Re
publican contemporary has called union
laboTing men anarchists" and -des-
peradoes'' And every time an ignor-
ant foreigner-neither a member of an
industrial union nor citizen of the
repuplic-commits a crime like that
reported from the La Sal region, it
remains for the Salt Lake Tribune to
faSten the responsibility upon Ameri-
can workmen and western miners and
to heap upon their heads its epithets
and billingsgate.
AS The Herald said after the blow
ing UP of the mills at Wardner: Men
who kill their fellow beings and destroy
property are criminals and should be
dealt with as SUCH
But the logical position of our con-
temporary is this: "Imprison every
member of a labor union in the La
Sal region. Prohibit them from getting
work there. Drive them out at the
point of the bayonet for they all know
as well as they know there is such a
place as Timbuctoo that they are
guilty" And if a union man should
dare dispute the judgment of this
bogus Daniel who convicts men by
wholesale without a hearing, it Will
turn upon him in its fury and hurl the
charges of 'incendiary," "dynamiteT."
..murderer," and "blatherskite" at his
head.
Men who do not respect the lives
and property rights of others should
NOT be permitted TO be at large" said
The Herald in commenting on the
Wardner riot. But all the anarchists
are not on the labor side" And this
was proved few days later when our
neighbor made a pitiable spectacle Of
e l-rlaa-
to the employees Of one of the local
street railway systems and trying to
make them think they ought to strike
and all because the president of that
system had incurred our neighbours
e,,mity. Talk about anarchists
1t is just as despicable for the Tri-
bane to compare union laboring men
with those Italian brigands of La Sal,
as it was to denounce every delegate to
the miners convention held recently in
this city as IAN incendiary and
murderer at heart" on account of the
crimes committed in northern Idaho.
Why, our contemporary admitted right
after the explosions at Wardner that
the men involved were ignorant
..Swedes and Italians who have at best
but a dim idea of our country and its
institutions" but We're there for the
best wage they could get. That was
before the boss had cracked his whip,
perhaps. Afterwards the organ said:
We assert that there was not a man in
the so-called labor convention in this city
that did not know, as well as he knows
there is such a place as Timbuctoo in
Africa. that the Bunker Hill and sullivan
mills were blown up by union men.
And it claimed TO be speaking for
"the honest laboring men of Utah