The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-01-02

Some people swell up on emotion
brewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick Of the leaders of
the Labor Trust to twist facts and
make the "sympathetic ones" weep
at the ice house." Chats part of the
tale further on.)
Gompers ct al sneer at, spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympa-
thy by falsely telling the people the
courts were trying to deprive them of
free speech and free press.
Men can speak freely and print opin-
ions freely in this country and no court
will object, but they cannot be allowed
to print matter as part Of a criminal
conspiracy to injure and ruin other
citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co., drive it's hundreds of workmen
out of work and destroy the value of
the plant without regard to the fact
that hard earned money of men who
worked, had been invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop these vicious trust
methods, efforts to break the firm
that won't come under trust rule) but
instead of stopping they dare" the
courts to punish them and demand
new laws to protect them in such de-
structive and tyrannous acts as they
may desire to do. The reas-
on Gompers and his band persisted in
trying to ruin the Bucks Stove Works
was because the stove company in
sisted on the right to keep some old
employees at work when de union
ordered them discharged and some of
ode gang" put in.
Now let us reverse the conditions
and have look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
their union and, the demand being re-
fused, should institute boycott
against that union. publish it's name
in an unfair list" instruct other
manufacturers all over the United
States not to buy the labor of that
union. have committees call at stores
and threaten to boycott if the mer-
chants sold anything made by that un-
ion. Picket the factories where mem
bers work and slug them on the way
home. blow up their houses and wreck
the works, and even murder a few
members of the boycotted union to
teach them they must obey the orders
Of organized Capital?"
It would certainly be- fair for the
company to do these things if lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case. under our laws the
boycotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order the
company to cease boycotting and try
ing to ruin these union men. Suppose
thereupon the company should sheer
at the court and in open defiance con-
tinue the unlawful acts in a persist
ent. carefully laid out plan, purposely
intended to ruin the union and force
its members into poverty. What
howl would go up from the union de-
manding that the courts protect them
and punish their law-breaking Cypress
ors. Then they would praise the courts
and go on earning a living protected
from ruin and happy in the knowledge
that the peoples courts could defend
them
How could any of us receive protec-
ton from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to. and do punish
such men.
The court is placed in position
where it must do one thing or the
men who persist in de-
Tying its peace orders or go out Of
let anarchy reign and the
more powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain the
courts as their defenders. whereas
thieves. forgers, burglars, crooks OF all
kinds and violent members of labor
Unions. hate them and threaten VIC
ence If their members are punished
-or breaking the law. They want the
courts to let them go free and at the
same time demand punishment for
other men outside de union" when |
they break the law. Notice |
The above reference is to violent"
OF labor unions. The great |
majority OF the "unheard" union men !
are peaceable, upright citizens. The |
noisy. violent ones get into office and |
the leaders Of the great Labor Trust |
know how to mass this Kind of men.