The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-10-20

| in cold blood because he ODeyed the
| instincts of an almighty Father, who
| impelled him TO seek work to feed his
little ones? What play is ever made
| by them to sway jury? The muir
derer is supported by the funds OF
the Labor Trust. The orphans of the
victim have no money 10 help them
| obtain justice.
Impudent Pretense.
! The Labor Trust leaders proclaim
peaceful intent and publicly decry
violence. Such bare faced assertions
| as that of the President of the Ameri
! can Federation of Labor that Organ
| lied Labor is enc of the most potent
factors for the preservation of peace,
Is only interesting as in illustration
OF the extreme impudence of these
| leaders with most terrible record OF
| criminal procedure behind them. 1t
| lately became public that this Trust
! expended upwards of $150,000.00 to-
defend its members in the Haywood
| Meyer trial, securing acquital by a
| frightened jury, Notwithstanding the
| fact that the judge VINO presided at
| the trial announced afterward tina,
| the testimony duplicating the mem
bers OF the Labor Trust in the deeds
| OF violence was in his opinion true.
The Labor Trust shouts for the pub
! lie ear, and winks in another direction
while it finds it necessary to rush to
! the support of its criminal members,
| in order to keep up the work.
Without certainty of protection the
| sluSSer would quickly become diScour-
| aged The victim of the Labor Trust
dare not publicly protest even if he
lives through the entertainment by
the entertainment committee" and
the wives, widows and children have
| no way to bring their wrongs to the
| public ear. The poorhouse may take
care of some and the streets of some
but the suffering, terror and agony
put upon the children, wives and
widows of independent workingmen
is known only to themselves and their
God and no one seems 10 have the hui
mdnity or bravery TO speak in their
| defense
| Thousands of individual members
of organized labor have hearts as ten
der as Can be found in all human ma
ture but they seem pOwerless in the
iron grasp of impudent and desperate
| tyrants who hold them bound and
who -extnrt- franz -tLa.ss- aaee-onIs money
Out obedience" and bring reproach
| on the very name of Labor.
Honest Union Men Helpless.
Let an honest union man raise his
voice In protest at a union meeting
| and the men of violent tendencies"
cry him down with shouts to throw
dat guy out de windoY" and if he
oon SHUT up he may expect to be
violently and effectively shut I'D. Some
| day let us hope that organized labor
VIII get rid OF the present leaders and
| conduct the sale of its product (labor)
| in the peaceful legal manner of bust.
ness men who sell the ordinary pro-
ducts of humanity, and when they
cannot sell their labor at a satisfac-
tory price to one man, do as the
farmer does who offers his wheat to
another buyer and either sells it at
the highest price the market will war
rant or keeps it for a higher market
but does not picket the mill. assault
other farmers who prefer to sell their
wheat, or blow up the mill whose
owner cannot at that time buy at the
price asked. \
The man who has saved money
with which to purchase wheat or la
Dor should not be manned, murdered.
or his property destroyed because he
does not feel like parting with that
money to buy wheat or labor when he
either does not want it or knows the
price to be too high to warrant its
purchase Any attempt at coercion
should be promptly and effectualIy
punished by the courts and the bull
lies put where they cannot again
tyrannize over independent Ameri- !
cans.
This rapid growth of anarchy and
evident purpose of the Labor. Trust to |
dictate just what persons shall be |
employed, how long and at what price |
and how much pay to the managers |
has taught every man who has saved |
dollar and wants to build a house |
Or establish a factory, that he had |
better keep his money in some safe |
investment, instead of going into some
thing where he would be actually |
forced to buy labor when not needed |
and to employ men he don't want i
In other words, the man who has a
little money TO invest don't propose to
have any trust, even the Labor Trust, /
tell him how Or where to pay it out
This widespread attack of the Labor
Trust on citizens who would have
money to invest in labor if allowed to
invest peacedbly, has been one of the
strongest elements which brought on
the panic.
Men who have money TO build, don't
like to be haraSsed to death by con-
tinued impudent interference. and ex-
pensive delays by labor union tan
giles, therefore hundreds of them
don't build. So with proposed new
factories and other enterprises.
Between the loud mouthed political
demagogues and the Labor Trust
leaders, the steady attacks on indus
tries dried them up and the panic
came, bringing idleness and misery
% thousands. !
The demand by the Labor Trust ,
eaders for an anti-injunction law. is |
quite in keeping with the purposes of 1
he tyranous leaders. A careful in {
resignation of the records of all Fed 1
raj courts for the past 5 years dis 8
loses the fact that only 90 injunc- {
ions have issued in labor disputes a
Ind in not one of these cases has the 7
superior court reversed Or failed 10
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