The San Francisco call., 1908-10-01
A Dangerous Trust

a Union Printers home in Colorado; 1t
has also spent over a million dollars In
defending criminal members brought
before the courts and 1t has at times
tied up industries and squeezed extra
money out of the public, but 1t can new
er permanentlyraise wages beyond what
the industry can stand. In fact, the
highest scale OF wages is paid in fac
tories independent of the Labor Trust.
1t is universally admitted that the In
dividual quality of the working mem
bers of the unions has declined and 1t
persistently endeavors to keep our
youth from learning trades except in
the restricted number set by the trust
and entirely under its control.
It's warfare and criminal record is
something fearful to contemplate.
The homes of workmen burned or
blown up and other property destroyed
has run into millions of dollars, while
the citizens who have been beaten,
MANNED or murdered aggregate in the
past ten years several hundred thou
sands.
There were over 5000 men assaulted
or murdered in one strike tthe team
sters) in Chicago few years ago. All
of this violence has been done to estab-
lish the fact that if the common man
asserts his right to freedom and de-
clines to bow down to the orders of the
Labor Trust, he must be punished and
forced into submission.
1t has cost the common citizens mill
lions of dollars to support police and
soldiers to preserve property and pro-
tect themselves from the attacks of
this trust
NEXT MOVE
Discovering that the people object to
being attacked and having their prop
|erty destroyed, the Labor Trust mem
bers conclude their next step should be
to elect members of the Legislatures
and Congress who will change old laws
and make new ones, SO that the Labor
Trust may safely carry on the work and
not be punished Hence the demand that
they be exempt from the trust laws
and that the hands of our courts be tied
vent them from picketing, boycottfng,
smuggling or blowing up property.
We were treated to good illustra-
tion of how trusts work together when
some chiefs of the Steel Trust joined
the chiefs of the Labor Trusts at the
Republican Convention in Chicago and
agreed among themselves that the
Steel Trust would work for the Anti
injunction ds-of-the-courts
platform demanded by the Labor Trust
II in turn the Labor members would
work for a repeal of the Sherman anti
trust law demanded by the Steel Trust.
Both working to be free of laws which
were obstacles to their further con-
troll of the people, and what would be
the condition of the common man if the
National Citizens Industrial Associa-
ton and its allies with their lawyers,
headed by James A. Emery, had not
Fought them to a finish and insisted
that these trust planks should not be
included in the Republican platform
We have an Association now made
up OF citizens, through which the rights
Oh the common man can be asserted
and defended. to an extent, at least.
Ihus by organization. the trust or
CARNATIONS can be met and checked.
Ihe common citizens who read the
papers, vote and attend to the affairs
Oh life are far and away in the majority
over the members of any trust, labor
or capital, and when they understand
the hidden attacks made on their lib
critics they act and win.