The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-03-07
GAMBLING ROBBERS -.
Of WALL. STREET
Toy and Play With the Financial
and Industrial Welfare Of !,
the Nation.
Gamble for the Wealth That Is
Being Filched From the
People.

IaK1nS INTO ConS1derat ton all that
organized worhmen have striven for
and attained in the past, and all that
we hope to do in the future, trade
unionism Is ging to live and continue
its fighting, no matter how mighty its
earthly foes may be, for its mission
is righteous one, and it's work will
never end, until poverty and the un-
happiness it brings cease to exist.
Gambling Must Go.
Why should they who. toll year in
and year out continue "hand to
mouth" existence, while the foulest
and greatest gambling hell, which has
Its abode in Wall street, is allowed to
gather up the fulness Of the land, and
the scoundrels who control its blight
ing machinery revel In the millions
they have wrung from the life-giving
streams of the nation, carrying woe to
industry and idleness and suffering to
the toiler? Why we ask, should this
Wall street gambling monster be per-
mitted, at it's own tickle pleasure, to
toy and play with the financial and
industrial welfare Of the nation, while
the robbers gamble and fight among
themselves as to who shall have the
controlling Interest in the wealth that
has been filched from the people? Is
there any earthly reason for its ex-
istence? If so. we have failed to find
ion, it is time that our American cit
1zenship asserted itself and demanded
from its public servants in no un-
certain terms legislation that will an
nihilate every vestige Of the blight
that this den Of thieves has periodic
ally cast upon our beloved country.
Responsible for Panic.
These, and other gamblers of high
finance, are responsible for the paj(E
icky conditions Of today. They are
the men who have not hesitated to
discredit the nation and its president,
in order that their scheming designs
may bear fruit, and that they may.
by financial manipulation, gain con-
troll Of rival corporate interests. j.
Pierpont Morgan, the so-called "sa-
viour," and the men associated with
him, recently made over twelve mil
lion dollars in the saving process,
which. at the same time, gave to the
United States; Steel Trust the eaaosp-
lutte contro1 and monopoly; Of the ore
lands OF the country, part Of which
were formerly controlled by the Ten
nessee Coal and Iron company. Its
holdings are now 2,400,000,000 tons,
and its promoters say that they can
not be exhausted in q hundred years
while at the same time, it has secured
1000, 900, 900 tons Of coal properties
from its rival, the Tennessee Coal and
Iron company, which is now no more
Sacrifice Other Interests.
In his Saving the country" process
and charitable work, we are told, J.
Plerpont Morgan also crushed out Of
existence the Heinze Copper company
and placed all its properties in the
hands Of H. H. Rogers and VIM
Rockefeller, or the Amalgamated Cop
per company, the biggest monopoly OF
its kind in the world, and this squeez-
ing by the big captains of finance will
go on and on until they get what they
want, no matter whether the wheels
of honest industry hum or not, o,
whether thousands Of honest work.
ing men and women walk the streets
in idleness and in want of bread.