Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-01

port a Union Printers home in Colora
do 1T has also spent over q million dol
lars in defending criminal members
brought before the courts and 1t has
at times tied up industries and
squeezed extra money out of the pub
lia. but it can never permanently raise
Wages beyond what the industry can
stand. IN fact, the highest scale OF
wages is paid in factories independent
of the Labor Trust. 1t is universally
admitted that the individual quality of
the working members of the unions has
declined and it persistently endeavors
to keep our youth from learning trades
except in the restricted number set by
the trust and entirely under Its control.
It's warfare and criminal record Is
something fearful to contemplate,
The homes of workmen burned or
blown up and other property destroyed
has run into millions OF dollars while
the citizens who have been beaten,
manned or murdered aggregate in the
past ten years several hundred thous-
ands.
There were over 5000 men assaulted
or murdered in one strike, (the team
sters) in Chicago a few years ago. All
of this violence has been done to es-
tablish the fact that If the common man
asserts his right to freedom and de-
clines to bow down to the orders of the
Labor Trust, he must be punished and
forced into submission.
1t has cost the common citizens mill
lions of dollars to support police and
soldiers to preserve property and pro-
tect themselves from the attacks of this
trust.
Next Move.
Discovering that the people object to
being attacked and having their prop
erty destroyed, the Labor Trust mem
bers 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 punished. Hence the de-
lnand that they be exempt from the
trust laws and that the hands of our
courts be tied SO no injunction can be,
issued to prevent them from picleting,
boycotting, smuggling or blowing UP
property.
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 Chicago and
agreed among themselves that the
Steel trust would work for the Anti
iNtunction-tie-t the hands OF 1.-The courts
platform demanded by the Labor
Trust If in turn the Labor members
would work for a repeal of the Sher-
man antitrust law demanded by 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 the common
man if the National Citizens Industrial
Association and It's allies with their
LAWYERS headed by James A. Emery
had not fought them to a finish and in
sisted that these trust planks should
not be included in the Republican plat
form?
We have an Association now made
up of citizens thru which the rights of
the common man can be asserted and
defended to an extent, at least.
Thus by organization, the trust orr
CARNATIONS can be met and checked.
The common citizens who read the
Diapers. vote and attend to the affairs
of life are far and away III 1.-THE ma
foritv over the members Of any trust,
labor or capital, and when they under
stand the hidden attacks made. Oh their
liberties they act and win. -