The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-04-02
FLOwERY WORDS CONCEAL EVIL

Community Of interest" is a ayore phrase in Wall ST. lei
is the substitute Tor the pool trust that the laws Of the nation
condemned Instead of the written agreement
maintain prices otherwise silc competition there IS the
Community o interest plan It Is maintained by the gentle
mems agreement What is that2 The chief or controlling
stockhodng interests IN supposedly rival con
agree among themselves that there shall be uniform rate
price There is signed agreement In some eases at
the officers OF the corporations not parties to this
genemens agreement directly eogusant OF II They can
that their corporations not parties 90 trust
Bu, the thing effective Just the For instance 4 IS
mma,ea to which telegraph company go the rates at the
Postal and Western Union just tho And with the
railroads Competition confined efforts get your bust
reader No which railroad telegraph COM
pany you patronxe you have to pay the same rates
Community OF interest and who is in the community
Nobody but the capitalists Let tell YOU how works Here
railroad telegraph company whose securities have been
watered and whose physical condition has declined until Il Is
tottcrng would speedily fall there legitimate COM
petition The gentlemen who make these agreements arc m
maintaining the prices OF these inflated stocks and
bonds They fax the return all that
Vastly lower rates could be given reasonable return
on the actual investment all that desired
For telegraph could be cut onehali and bet
wages paid only reasonable profit actual investment
called for The gentlemen by their agreements make us
pay profit the they have poured into the
Il is merely public utilities which thus used to rob
the public The game worked in every possible direction
Publishers have themselves suffered by H. The paper mills
combined exvagaut high prices Some of the plants were
ready tor the junk pile BUT publishers compelled 70 pay
prices lot paper which give ptoit ON thNc JUNK pes anu on
chose inflated prices II publishers compelled pay only
such prices would return fair profit a modern mill,
equipped with upodate machinery prices Of print paper would
be much lower And the paper manufacturers asking con
gres maintain high tariff print paper help them
make profit their waered securities The chief business 81
Wall form and maintain these gentlemens agreements
for robbing the public.
But the people who suffer by this community OF in
erest scheme the workers While themselves maintaining
"closed shop these gentlemen cry aloud Tor open shop
lar labor concerned Then. while themselves sitting
competition and ahuormaiy increasing everything that the
worker has it that the steamship companies (which
they offer low and every possible ndueement flood
the labor market and dcprc And when The consuming
public finally forces reduction in prices the Of falls
the workethe clerk mechanic and labore These gentle
who maintain the community OF interest boycott
any business who will play their game aud render
almost impossible capital Tor public utility OF
large enterprise and the time deny the
right Of publicity for those who viii workers fairly
and send their leaders 20 jail.
Community Of interest and "gsnsnens agreements" are
generally merely polite phrases for devices theft