The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-10-01
A Dangerous Trust.


a good many thousands dollars to
support a Union Printers home in
Colorado; II has also spent over a
mills n dollars in defending criminal
members brought before the courts
and it has at times tied up industries
and squeezed extra money out OF the
public but il can never permanently
raise wages beyond what TIE industry
can stand IN fact, the highest scale
{ vases IS paid in factorica independ-
ent of the Labor Trust 1t Is univer-
sally admitted that the individual
qua lily OF the working members f the
unions has declined ana it PERSISTENT
~ endeayors 10 keep our youth from
learning trades except in the restrict,
ed number set By the trust and en-
tlely under. It's control.
It's warfare and criminal record is
something fearful TO ntemplate.
The homes OF workmen burned or
blown up and other property destroyed
has run into millions of Il liars w1ilC
the citizens who nave been beaten.
manned or murdered aggregate in the
past ten years several hundred thou
sands.
Tlere wero over 1000 men assault
ed or murdered in one strike (the
teanistorsl in Chicago a few years
ago All OF this violence has been
q ne to establish the fact that II the
common man asserts his right 10
freedom and declines to bow down TO
tlc orders OF the Labor Trust he
mus be punished and forced into sub
missi Il.
1t has cost the common citizens
millions OF dollars to support police
and soldiers 10 preserve property and
protect themselves lr-m the attacks
OF tais trnst
Next Move.
Discovering that the people object
to being attacked and having theil
property destroyed, the Labor Trust
members conclude their next stel
should be to elect members cf the
+, Legislature and Congress who will
change Old laws and make new ones
so that the Labor Trust may safely
{ carry on tae work and not be punish
ed. Hence the demand that they b5
exempt from the trust laws and that
lthe hands OF ur courts be tied so NJ
finjgaction can be issued to prevent
then from picketing boycotting, slug
ging or blowing up property.
We were treated TO a good illustra
tlon q how trusts work together wher
some chiefs Of the Steel Trust. ioinet
the chiefs Of the Labor Trusts at Ia,
Repuhican Convention In Chicago anC
agreed ampng themselves that the
Steel trust would work for the Anti
injuncti ctisn-tie-the-hands OF the courts
platform demanded by the Labo
Trust IL in turn the Labor members
would work for q repeal OF the Sher
man antitrust law demanded by th'
Steel trust Both working TO be frei
of laws which were obstacles TO thei
further ntrol OF the people, AM
what would be the condition Of th
common man ii tle National Citizen
Industrial Association and its allie
With their lawyers headed by James A
Emery had not fought them to finisl
and insisted that these trust plank
should n be incmded in the Ro2nl
lican platforms
We have an Association now mad
/ up Of citizens through which the right
of TIC common man can be asscrte
and defended 10 an extent al least.
THUS by organization The trus
rganizauons can be met ard checke,
Tae ccmmon citizens who read ID
/. papers. vcte aud attend 70 the affair
of life. are far and away in the major
y iy over the niomhers OF aay trus
LABOR or capital and when they mdc
stand Tie hidden attacks made Q
their liberties thcy act and win
Z Who Shall Rule?
N " the Lshar Trust openly assert
I tlai rs members are in politics to Il