The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-10-17
Gives ,tlle, Bal Facts Regarding
i Tfs 1ssuance Of Blanket
mctions.
StlRsERVIENT ToOI.
CRUEL CORPORATIONS
During His lncumbency AS Judge
= :. Was q Contemplate
= Lickspittle.

Ham 1T. + Taft owes his present
| pronninence TO the fact that he used
his position as federal judge to assist
the railways in an unlawful con-
splracy having for its object the SUD
port OF the Pullman company in its
effort to starve it's employe into sub
mission" said Eugene v. Debs. when
shown the report OF the speech re-
Gently made by the Republican nom-
inee to the railway unions of Chicago.
Debs went on to show that Taft,s.
actions were in aid of an illegal con-
spiracy on the part of 26 railroads to
crush the pullman strike so that
wages might be reduced on all the
roads. -"' = =
"The Pullman company had made
three successive reductions in wages,
from an already low scale, prior to
the: strike" Debs continued "The
condition Of the employees was ter
r1ble. saw, myself, children whose
emaciated limbs and drawn faces bore
every mark of starvation. I saw wo-
| men without rags enough to cover
their nakedness. All these were living
under condition of serfdom to the
Pullman company. When these slaves
were subjected to another turn OF
the screw OF exp1oitation it was more
: tina M human beings could endure and
they: struck. - ~
: zHIhe Pullman employees were prac-
tical1y assured Of victory when the
railways running into Chicago, 26 of
them, whom recent Investigation has
shown to be the real owners of the
Pullman company, ordered that COM
pany not to surrender, to its en-
ployes. These railroads had already
lbeguna 10%Der cent. cut in the wages
of their employees. Three Of them
| had already made this cut. The others
feared that this reduction could not
be made if the Pullman strike sue
Eceeded. So they came to the support
fof
! 1T was to assist these starving
slaves Of Pullman and to maintain
their own wages that the American
Railway. union, in convention assem-
bled, by unanimous vote, of the 425
delegates. present, decided to. refuse
to haul the Pullman cars"
Quivering with Indignation, Debs
added, 1T was to- maintain those
hideous conditions in Pullman and to
assist the illegal combination of the.
railroads of the United States in the
starvation of their employees that
William H. Taft used all the power
Of the federal judgeshipz1 which he
| controlled.
Taft FaIsifies Record.
| "His statement that Phelan called
the strike on the Cincinnati Southern
| is falsehood, and his own court rec
ords prove it. These records will
show that the strike was called by
the national convention of the A.: Il.
| U. and that Phelan was but an agent
of that organization, sent to Cincin-i
natl to manage strike already in
! existence ......- ...-.... -. -
Until TAFT issued that injunction
against Phelan, and showed his kalb-
serviency to the corporate capital Of
America, he was practically unknown.
That decision, by. proving his allie
glance to the capitalist class, opened
the road to fame and fortune for him.
! Taft always was and is now con-
temptible corporation *lickspittle, and
to that characteristic he owes his
present prominence. -. -. .-s-ssss.
Taft knew that he was working
in support of an illegal combination.
Het knew that when the evidence OF
the combination was Brought out in !;
the only trial where was permitted
to have a jury, that as soon as the
court saw what was about to be res
vealed, that a Juror was taken sick,
! the case adjourned, and has never
been called since" s