The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-20


 So much for the brutal murderer, but who brings into court the destitute, fatherless children of the poor workman murdered in cold blood because he obeyed 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 murderer is supported by the funds of the Labor Trust. The orphans of the victim have no money to help them obtain justice.
 lmpudent Pretense.
 The Labor Trust leaders proclaim peaceful intent and publicly decry vo- lence. Such bare faced assertions as that of the President of the American Federation of Labor that Organized Labor is one of the most potent factors for the preservation of peace,' is only interesting as in Illustration of the eX- treme impudence of these leaders with a most terrible record of criminal procedure behind them. It lately became public that this Trust expended upwards of $15O, ,0OO0O to defend it's members in the Haywood Mover trial, securing acquittal by frightened jury, notwithstanding the fact that the judge who presided at the trial announced afterward that the testimony duplicating the members of he Labor Trust in the deeds of vio- lence was in his opinion true.
 The Labor Trust shouts for the public ear, and winks in another direction while it finds it necessary to rush to the sup port of it's criminal members in order to keep up the work"
 Without certainty of protection the slugger would quickly become discour- aged The victim of the Labor Trust dare not publicly protest even if he lives through the entertainment by the enter tainment committed and tine wives, wid- ows, and children have no way to bring their wrongs to the public ear. The poor house 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 workinsmen is known only to themselves and their God and no one seems to have the hu- manity or bravery to speak in their de- fense.
 Thousands of individual members of organized labor have hearts as tender as can be found in all human nature but they seem powerless in the iron grasp of impudent and desperate tyrants who hold them bound and who extort from them not only money but 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 window and if he don't shut up he may expect to be violently and eHectlVely shut up. Some day let us hope that or ganized labor will get rid of the present leaders and conduct the sale or it's product Qabor) in the peaceful, legal manner of business men who sell the ordinary prod ucts of humanity and when they cannot sell their labor at a satisfactory 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 warrant or keeps it for higher market but does not picket the mill, assault other farmers who prefer to sell their wheat, or blow mp 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 labor should not be maimed murdered or his property destroyed because be 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 it's purchase. Any attempt at coercion should be promptly and effectually pun ished by the courts and the bullies put where they cannot again tyranniZe over independent Americans.
 This rapid growth of anarchy and evil dent purpose of the Labor Trust to die tate just what person shall be employed, how long and at what price and how much pay to the managers has taught every man who has saved a dollar and wants to build 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
 In other words, the man who has 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 peaeeably, has been one of the strongest elements which brought on the panic.
 Men who have money to build, don't like to be harrassed to death by continued ilnpudent interference, and expensive delays by labor union tangles, therefore hundreds of them don't build. So with proposed new factories and other enter prises.
 Between the loud mouthed political demagogues and thesL Labor Trust leaders. the steady attacks on industries dried them up and the panic came bringing idleness and misery to thousands.
 The demand by the Labor Trust leaders for an anti-injunction law. is quite in keeping with the purposes of the tyrannous leaders. A careful in- vestigation of the records of all federal courts for the past five years discloses the fact that only 30 injunctions have issued in labor disputes and in not one of these cases has the superior court reversed or failed to approve. No other subject handled by our courts has been as free from mistake. Humanity Is prone to weakness and error, and our courts are human, but fortunately for mankind we find less error and weak