The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1903-12-03
Retrencl,nent the Rule.

Golfer S weekly Liz 8IIuSlS HdVe l
been il all far worse sinners than the
unions. The trusts expanded inordi-
nately. in both capital and the demand
for labor. Both nave collapsed. The
Harvester combine is about to dis
charge 5000 men, and the Acme Har-
Nester company. n OF the biggest in
the country, ~hasEfailed. The Lake Sui
perior ore mines are cutting down labor
one half. The Steel$trr:st continues re-
trenchment. FrstcaI Shrinking, the
Pennsylvania railroad shuts down S10,-
900, 900 of Improvement. BY January,
any one will be able to run oXer a list
of s~idetracked railroad b~etter1nents
which will tally a round S100,000,0o0.
The Amalgamated Copper trust is
loaded with heavy copper stocks, ac-
cumulated in pegging up the price of
Lake copper, and it has made an adj
verse judicial decision on a single mine
an excuse for shutting down all its
mines and throwing 10000 men out Of
work. Such things are always COM
promised and adjusted, but unless all
was Shrinking, such g. shutdown would
never have occurred. Judge Clancy's
decision in favor of John MeGtnnis' suit
to protect his property and the injunc-
ton against the A1nalgamated is only
one step in a long struggle, which has
brought at Butte one trust and one
union face to face, amicably keeping
up sIllll!GES WAGES GllA H OpPCA&34uOld
tions1at the sanle time.
The attempt has failed. 1t is bound
to fail everywhere, but the difference
is that when the miners make a mis-
take they lose, but e. the trust
makes a mistake the public loses. The
various collapses of trusts and other
risky attempts to discount h future
closed, as a beginning, two trust COM
panies9 in Baltimore maryland and
Union) and two banks in Pittsburg
(First National and Federal). One Of
these banks was an attempt to organ
ize a chain" or trust in a series of
country banks. 1t collapsed as the
other attempts toward partial monop-
oily ve. PPii tttssburg more than any
other center, is affected by the monop-
oily expansion of iron and steel cap
it%alization. There, the Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
Workers and the Steel trust divide the
field.
The Federation of Labor comes to its
annual meeting at Boston, therefore,,
With the entire round of the industries
it represents affected. Railroads, iron
and steel, iron ore. copper, anthracite,
western mines, agricultural implements,
building trades carpenters. lumber-all
show ~shutdoWns. In all, the demand
for labor is decreasing. Pennsylvania
railroad tTailnaen, New York elevated
InoloifneI,aand OtnerS, are In confer
encel with the m-anagements. but these
things are small beside the great move
lnent in thaebb of industry, an ebb
due to the extravagant nigh tide Of
trusts.
When lack Of work has spread, the
fact will be plain that the unregu-
lated2organization of industry by trusts
can not continue. First trusts expand,
then labor, naturally aroused by the
spectacle Of vast Danar nrOfifS otrtkaS
dislocating industry, and after8a year
and a half of strikes. beginning with
anthracite, men are thrown out Of Swork
by ttSas of thousands, In the reaction
from the I~1sssgulated acrton Of great
combinations of capital and labor. A
single trust like Amalgamated Copper
deadlocks a state. Should it?