The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-07-04

CARRIED Tar enough, II can easily be
seen they would expect to elect trust
members from President of the u. S.
on down through all the offices. Such
control would mean that the trust
members fatten off the people, who are
not members of the unions, and, from
past experience, life would not be worth
living nor could the common man hope
to own and protect his little home, in
peace. This is no fancy picture but the
conditions are being pressed, and
fought for by the labor trust right here
and now.
There are literally thousands of
splendid men, members of unions,
who heartily but silently denounce the
| acts of the anarchists and trouble
| breeders in the unions But what can
they do? have seen some of the most
earnest letters from such union men to
newspapers appealing to the public to
hear of their slavery but, when asked
if they would allow the letters print
ed over their names, decline for fear
Of the certain punishment that would
be put upon them by the trust lead
ers.
One sample will illustrate. Otto G.
Heggen, of Des Moines, Ia, naturali-
zed citizen of Norwegian nativity,
testif1es in this connection:
Why do wish to no longer be
cttizen?" he repeated, speaking in a
slow, and labored English, with the un-
mistakable Norwegian accent because
this is no longer a free country. An hon
est man who wants to work and support
his family must pay ia xto the union.
l had a good job at the Bloomfield
mine as blacksmith. Then the miners
| organized their union, and they said |
must pay tax to them or else quit my
Job
II believe in freedom. That is why I
left the dear old fatherland. thought
that here in America I would have
greater rights and that my children
and my children's children would have
| better chance, but instead we must
take our hard-earned dollars and pour
them into the union. If they make
strike, as they do so much, I must quit
work, no matter if l am content with
everything. Maybe must fight and get
killed
1t behoovvs every free workman who
hopes to preserve his right to work and
support his family, who hopes to hold
and save his home and other property,
every union man who hopes to escape
| further tyranny, every merchant who
hopes to escape the sudden boycott,
every farmer who hopes to postpone the
day when with wheat or other crops
overripe and spelling he is confronted
with a strike and his farm picketed
horses COWS, family and property
threatened, and the usual labor trust
warfare set up against him. and 1t be-
fiooves every patriotic citizen. who
hopes to keep the industries in his
community moving and the people de-
pendent upon them supplied with the
necessities Of life, to join with every
other citizen for protection to the COM
/ mon interest.
Let every candidate for office be
watched, and if. when questioned" by
| the labor trust, he agrees to represent
that trust and its measures in opposi-
| ton to the measures of the people, re-
member him.
The man who goes into office pledged
to any man, corporation, organization.
or trust, Is lined UP against the people.
The beef trust congressman or one re-
presenting the oil, railroad or labor
trust must work for the trust that put
him there, and whatever advantage a
trust gains in the making or execution
Of laws must be an advantage gained
at the expense of the common citizen
| There Is no other way for the trusts
] to fatten and thrive except upon the
fpeople outside the trust. The labor
trust tries to pass laws to prevent any
one buying labor except from MEM
bers of the labor unions, and at any
price the trust may have power to
lname. This trust does not ask congress
to pass a law to prevent employers or
common citizens from assaulting or
numbering labor union members or
blowing up their houses.
Such a law is not necessary to the
trust, but it does seek with all its pow
err to force a awthrough Congress, CALI
ed the Anti Injunction law, to tie
the hands of the courts, so they cannot
issue restraining orders or "injunc-
lions" which would have the effect of
restraining union men from assault
ing citizens or blowing up houses or
| property.
Is it not plain they want to be left
| free to do those things?
Think for one moment of the auda-
city and desperate lengths to which the
labor trust leaders will go to terrorize
and force the public to "obey." What
foreign squad of bandits would dare
ask for laws to protect them in their
raids on the people? No man is safe
and no family protected with such riot
and anarchy rampant in our midst.
The public man who will sell himself
to any trust interest and betray the
people richly deserves the certain de-
feat he will encounter at the polls
when his sentiments become known.
Demand of your candidate state
ment that he will stand to represent
the whole people and not simply
the few members of any trust
or organization. Just SO sure as a pub
lie man bows to the labor trust and
agrees to do it's will, just so sure he
deserts the people and joins the aliens
working to extract extra gain from the
public. He must be looked at for ex-
actly what he is and the people must
elect their own candidates and not
trust candidates if they care to pre-
serve sacred their freedom and peace.
The whole people want things done
and are the great majority. The la
Dor trust perhaps numbers two million