The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-16

! They boycotted factories and de-
/ stroyed business. compelling other
workmen to lie idle.
They stopped the loading and un-
1 loading of ships and railway cars;
! stopped work on buildings, the min
/ ing of gold, silver. copper and coal.
| Stopped the manufacture of millions
of dollars worth of American articles
which foreigners stood ready to pay
money for.
1t is believed by many that one of
! the chief causes of the panic and pres
: ent hard times was the persistent and
widespread interference with and
stoppage of industries brought about
by these same Labor Socialists in driv-
ing away business and preventing the
steady distribution of money among
the working classes. Every million
dollars worth of steam pumps, farm
implements, boots and shoes, steel,
iron, locomotives. cars, cotton goods,
etc, etc, sent abroad brings back a
million dollars to be distributed TO the
workmen who dig ore and smelt it;
moulders who cast the iron, machin-
lists. wood workers. cotton mill en-
ployes, etc, etc. But the Labor-So-
cialists have time and again stopped
up the source OF this flow of money
and have entailed on this country mill
lions upon millions of dollars in losses
and. consequently, much misery upon
work people.
The labor leaders have brought
strikes to force all employers to kick
out independent American workmen
and employ only union men, thus to
give absolute power to the leaders, Sc
cure fees TO pay their own salaries first
and, in order to keep their slaves in
terested, force higher and higher
wages. Here we reach the founda ton
fact again.
Now, when the jobs the Labor-So-
cialists threw away are taken by
others, or the business has been killed
for the time. and they are 'unem-
ployed," do they pay their own ex-
penses Or do they besiege the authori-
ties to tax the class of home owners
to pay extra money towards a public
fund to be used to pay the class of
unemployed Labor Socialists?
Here the line between classes is
clearly drawn and you get back again
to the same old spot, Take from one
class and give to the other"
Make the consumer pay extra
money and give 1t to the Labor-So-
cialists."
Charge the home-owner extra
the building of his home"
He has been saving, now let's take
away part of il"
High wages for skillful work is de-
sirable for all but when a labor union
gains power enough to force home
owners to pay two, three or four times
what hodcarriers and other workmen
are actually worth it means Just so
much extra money extracted from the
home owner, more than the service is
worth
II comes back to the same old place.
you see. Look at the purpose of all |
the anti-injunction bills introduced by |
the Labor Socialists. Each ana every |
one seeks to tie the hands of the peo- |
pies courts. and for what purpose No |
injunction issued in labor strikes ever
harmed an honest citizen, intending to |
peacefully pursue his occupation.
lnjunctions stop mobs, intent on in |
suiting, assaulting and perhaps muir |
dering other citizens, from congregat-
ing. The Labor Socialist raises a loud |
cry because he is commanded by a /
court to keep off the public street near
a factory employing Independent men. |
The injunction always directs the
man or men to stay off certain streets
Or refrain from doing other things.
when II is reasonably well known they
intend to go on those streets or do |
those acts. to insult or assault. eitf
lens or destroy property. The peace
Ful citizen is never hurt by an iniunc-
lion in labor case, and the courts
nave right to prevent injury to the
interests of any community But in
functions do prevent Labor-SociaIists
rom terrorizing people into submission
% the labor trust
Therefore, in order to secure submits
sion and power to extract from the
employer extra money. they contend
he injunction must be done awav,l
With
Every public man who supports any
measure seeking TO reduce the power
IF the courts in order to make il more
iifficult for them to protect propertyI
IND the person of the common citizen
S an enemy of home owners and an
lily of the Labor Socialists.
Watch such public men-particuIarlv
hose who want to revise the criminal
ode injunction laws. They want to
make 1t easier for mobs to do damage
md escape punishment. Their Names