The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-12-14
THE LABOR UNION TRUSr

These are the sentiments Of c. {
Goodwin, editor of Goodwin's Weekly
on the attitude of organized labor il
the world today:
1t is a common thing to see trust
denounced in the press. No matte
how stainless may be the reputat.o4
of the men WHO cOnttOl a truss, thu
Is no discrimination in the denuncla
non and loud c.Ies aie made for laws
hat viii control them, TO make ac
ccunl.ngs Of what they do, and to con
vert Jnois MANUAL acts into misds
meano.s or feICn.es.
But the very biggest trust in Am
erica today is the Labor Trust. Thel,
are two millions of stockholders AM
So aI-emblacIng is their power tina
their BoaId of Control can by a sim
pie order stop tie roll of the wheel
or Industry in any state.
If a thousand or ten thousand o.
the stockholders are employed, say
in Utah; If they are content with theit
wages, their homes. their food-every
thing. and if the pc. s0nal welfare o
tens OF thousands of people, and tht
pc s0nai fortunes of hundreds are con
ineent upon their continuing wo.
stAl by the simple order of a Board 0.
DI. eeJOrs IN Colorado or Minnesota o
sumo other outside state, all thes,
stockholders viii no only cease wo.k
but will 90 their utmost to proven
other men from being employed, an
will boycott all who OBJ ect to thel.
methods. Now this would not be tot
Grated for an hour save for the COW
ardice of politicians ard a time-servIns
press. 1t is a dil ect peryersion of al.
the principles professed in the foTma
ton Of labor unions: it is simply the
exercise of tyranny backed by brute
force. 1t shows the necessity of tn
enactment Of laws hat will protec
unions in every legitimate purpose, act
o. dasi.e, but will fix things so thai
it will be out of the power of a few
men in n state to order what wouln
be equivalent to a coal famine in an
other state in December.
n one man knows everything. To
b capable of handling a great organ
~ization, something more is needed h
a knowledge of the chief uses of the
pick and shovel The smelter trust
like the steel Dr. the lead trust. draw
10 them by princely salaries the fines
legal, financial and administrative tai
n in the country.
But the Labor Trust, the great trus
Of all, is not careful in this regart
and in many cases the noisy members
gravitate to the front.
These men are not far-seeing or
they would see that they are hasten
ing the day when a majority Of the
people Will insist that the public utIli-
ties, like the railroads, the telegraph
Ares, the coal mines and a THOUSAND
other branches of industry shall be
taken in by the government and op-
Grated by the government. Then wages
Will be fixed at whatever the govern
ment plelses and there will be n
more strikes. At the same time in
competent men will be relegated I
tho rear, and they will never get an
other job from the great c~ontroIin.
force that will direct those industries
No people car afford to always b,
kept on the anxious seat and a bus
ness man would sooner go out OF busi
ness than 10 pursue it under perpetual
anxiety and apprehension of evil an
danger. The Labor Union Trust Shout
revise its constitution and amend an.
Americanize its bylaws"