The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-01

But what would this trust do to the
people sif given unlimited power?
The Labor Trust has supplied good
paying positions for several hundred
officials of the trust and has paid out
a good many thousand dollars to sup
port a union printers home insColoradO;
it has also spent over a million. dol
lars in defending criminal membcrs
brought before the courts and 1t has
at times tied up industries and
squeezed extra money out of the pub
lie, but it can never permanently
raise wages beyond wat the industry
can stand. In fact the highest scale
of wages is paid in factories indie
pendent of the Labor Trust. 1t is
universally admitted that the indiyi-
dual quality of the working members
OF the unions has declined and 1t
persistently endeavors to keep our
youth from learning trades except in
the restricted number set by the
trust and entirely under It's control.
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 beat
en-, manned or murdered aggregate in
the past ten years several hundred
thousands.
There were over 5000 men assaulted
or murdered in one strike,( the team
sters) in Chicago a few years ago. All
of this violence mas been done TO es-
tablish the fact that il the common
man asserts his right to freedom and
declines to bow down 10 the orders
of the Labor Trust, he mus; be punish.
ed and forced into submission.
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 punish
ed Hence the demand that they
be exempt from the trust laws and
that the hands of our courts be tied
so no Injunction can be issued 10
prevent them from picketing, boycott
ting, slugging or blowing up proper
ty.
We were treated to a good illustra-
ton 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
eago and agreed among themselves
that the Steel Trust would work for
the Anti-injunction-tie s-of-the.
courts platform demanded by tie La.
Dor Trust If in turn the Labor mem,
bers would work for a repeal of the
Sherman antitrust law demanded bS
the Steel trust. Both working to be
free of laws which were obstacles TO
their further control of the people, and
what would be the condition of tie
comon man If the National Citizens
Industrial Association and its allies
with their lawyers headed by James
A. Emery had not fought them TO a
finish and insisted that these trust
planks should not be included in the
Republican platform?
We have an Association now made
Up OF citizens through which the
rights Of the common man can be as
serted and defended 10 an extent, at
least.
Thus by organization. the trust or.
CARNATIONS can be met Ard checked
The common citizens vino 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 under
stand the hidden attacks made or