Arizona republican., 1908-10-01

| good many thousand dollars to support a Union Printers Home in Colorado; it has also spent over a million dollars in defending criminal members brought before the courts and it has at times tied up industries | and squeezed extra money out of the public, but it can never perma- nently raise wages beyond what the industry can stand In fact, the highest scale of wages is paid in factories independent of the Labor Trust. It is universally admitted that the individual quality of the working members of the unions has declined and it consistently endeavOrs to keep our youth from learning trades eX- cept in the restricted number set by the trust and entirely under it's con- trol-
 Its warfare and criminal record is something fearful to contemplate.
 The homes of workmen burned or blown up and other property destroy ed has run into millions of dollars while the citizens who have been beaten, maimed or murdered aggre- gate in the past ten years several hundred thousands.
 There were over 5000 men assaulted or murdered in one skrike (the team- sters) in Chicago a few years ago. All of this violence has been done to establish the fact that if the com mon man asserts his right to free dom and declines to bow down to the orders of the Labor Trust. he must be punished and forced into submis- sion.
 It has cost the common citizens millions of dollars to support police and soldiers to preserve property and protect themselves from the attacks of this trust.
 Next Move.
 Discovering that the people object to being attacked and having their property destroyed, the Labor Trust members conclude their next step should be to elect members of the legislatures and congress who will change old laws and make new ones, so that the Labor Trust may safely carry on the work and not be pun ished. Hence the demand that they be exempt from the trust laws and AAldA Allt lldtluS ol OuI tOuI LS Dt Lltu so no injunction can be issued to prevent them from picketing, boycot- ting, slugging or blowing up prop erty.
 We were treated to a good illus tration of how trusts work together when some chiefs of the Steel Trust joined the chiefs of the Labor Trusts at the republican convention in Chi cage and agreed among themselves that the Steel Trusts would work for the Anti-injunctiOn- tie the hands s-of- | the-cOurts platform demanded by the | Labor Trust if in turn the Labor | members would work for a repeal of the Sherman antitrust law de- manded by the Steel trust. | Both working to be free of laws which were obstacles | to their further control of the peo- pie, and what would be the condition of the common man if the National | Citizens Industrial Association and its allies with their lawyers, headed byl James A. Emery. had not fought them i to a finish and insisted that these trust blanks should not be included in the republican platform?
 We have an Association now made up of citizens through which theI rights of the common man can be asserted and defended to an extent, | at least.
 Thus by organization, the trust or ganizations can be met and checked.
 The common citizens who read the papers, vote and attend to the affairs of life are far and away in the ma jority over the members of any trust, labor or capital, and when they un- derstand the hidden attacks made on their liberties they act and win.
 Who Shall Rule?
 Now the Labor Trust openly as-