Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-20


pathy. SO much for the brutal muir
derer. but who brings into court the
destitute, fatherless children of the
poor workman murdered in cold blood
because he obeyed the instincts Of an
almighty Father who impelled him to
seek work to feed his little ones? What
play Is ever made by them to sway a
jury? The murderer is supported by
the funds of the Labor Trust. The
orphans of the victims have no money
to help them obtain justice.
lmpudent Pretense.
The Labor Trust leaders proclaim
peaceful intent and publicly decry vio-
lence. Such bare faced assertions as
that of the President Of the American
Federation of Labor that "Organized
Labor is one of the most potent fac
tors for the preservation of peace is
only interesting as in Illustration of
the extreme impudence of these lead
ers with a most terrible record Of
criminal procedure behind them 1t
lately became public that this Trust
expended upwards of $3.50 100000 to de-
fend it's members in the Haywood
Meyer trial, securing acquital by a
frightened jury. Notwithstanding the
fact that the judge who presided at
the trial announced afterward that the
testimony duplicating the members o.:
the Labor Trusts in the deeds of vio-
lence was in his opinion true.
The labor Trust shouts for the pub
lie ear, and winks in another direction
while 1t finds it necessary to rush to
the support of its criminal members.
in order to keep up the work"
without certainty Of protection the
slugger would quickly become discour-
aged. The victims of the Labor Trust
dare not publicly protest even If he
lives thru the entertainment by the
entertainment committee" and the
wives, widows and children have no
way to bring their wrongs to the pub
lie ear. The poorhouse may take care
of some and the streets of some but
the suffering. terror and agony put
upon the children. wives and widows
of independent workingmen is known
only to themselves and their God and
no one seems to have the humanity or
bravery to SPEAK in their defense.
Thousands of individual members of
organized labor have hearts as tender
as can be found in all human nature
but they seem poWerless in the iron
grasp of in mt and desperate ty-
rants who hOll them bound and who
extort from them not only money but
obedience and bring reproach on the
very name of Labor.
Honest Union Men Helpless.
Let an honest union man raise his
voice in protest at union meeting and
the "men of violent tendencies cry
him down with shouts to throw dat
guy out de window" and if he don't
shut up he may expect to be violently
and effectively shut up Some day let
us hope that organized labor will get
rid of the present leaders and conduct
the sale of its product Qabor) in the
peaceful legal manner of business men
who sell the ordinary products of hui
and when they cannot sell
their labor at satisfactory price to
one man. do as the farmer does who
offers his wheat to another buyer and
either sells it at the highest price the
lI1dFheL VIII WARRANT VI hGcpS IL IOl
higher market but does not picket the
mill, assault other farmers who pre-
fer to sell their wheat, or blow up the
mill whose owner cannot at that time
buy at the price asked.
The man who has saved money with
which to purchase wheat or labor
should not be manned, murdered or his
destroyed because he does not
feel like parting with that money to
buy wheat or labor when he either
does not want it or knows the price to
be too high to warrant Its purchase.
Any attempt at coercion should be
promptly and effectually punished by
the courts and the DULLES put where
they cannot again tyrannize over IN
dependent Americans.
This rapid growth of anarchy and
evident purpose of the Labor Trust to
dictate Just what persons shall be en-
ployst., how long and at what price and
how much pay to the managers has
taught every man who has saved a
dollar and wants to build house or
establish a factory, that he had better
keep his money in some safe invest
ment, instead of going into something
where he would be actually forced to
buy labor when not needed and to en-
ploy men he don't want
In other words, the man who has a
little money to invest don't propose to
have any trust, even the Labor Trust,
tell him how or where to pay it out.
This widespread attack of the Labor
Trust on citizens who would have mon |
ev to invest in labor if allowed to in
vest peaceably has been one of the
strongest elements which brought on
the panic.
Men who have money to build. don't
like to be harassed to death by con-
tinued impudent interference. and ex-
pensive delays by labor union tangles.
therefore hundreds of them don't build. !
So with proposed new factories and
other enterprises.
Between the loud mouthed political
5emagogs and the Labor Trust lead
ers. the, steady attacks on industries
dried them up and the panic came
bringing idleness and misery to thou
sands.
The demand by the Labor Trust
leaders for an anti injunction law, is
quite in keeping with the purposes OF
the tyrannous leaders. A careful IN
vestipation Of the records of all Fed |.
eral courts for the past 5 years DIS
closes the fact that only 20 inJunctions
have issued in labor disputes and in
not one of these cases has the superior /
court reversed or failed to approve.
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