The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1910-01-14

Some people swell uD on emotion"
s1TcNod from absolute untruth.
It, an old trick of the leaders of the
Labor Trust to twist facts and make
the sympathetic ones weep at the
acc house" CHATS part OF the tale
Further on.)
Gompers Ell al sheer at, spit upon
saIlo defy our courts. seeking sympathy
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-
scD8 freely in this country and no
ccGr will object, but they cannot be
Allowed to print matter as part Of a
criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin
other citizens.
Gonpers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Go, drive its hundreds of workmen
AIT Of work and destroy the value of
the plant without regard to the fact
taat hard earned money of men who
worked, had been invested there.
The conspirators we're told by the
&ouTts to stop these vicious trust
methods, efforts to break the firm
chat won't come under trust rule), but
instead of stopping they dare the
courts to punish them and demand
LeW laws to protect them in such de-
structive and %tyrannical acts as they
La desire to do. * - = The reason
Erainpers and his band persisted in try
rig 30 ruin the Bucks Stove Works
was because the stove company insist
ed on the right to keep some old en-
EloyeeS at work when de union" Or
deIed them discharged and some of
d gang put on.
Now let us reverse the conditions
and have a look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
Gheir union, and, the demand being re-
fused, should institute a boycott
against that union, publish its name
fn an unfair list" instruct other man
U~tacturers all over the United States
not to buy the labor of that union,
havQ committees call at stores and
threaten to boycott if the merchants
sold anything made by that union.
Picket the factories whore members
woEE and slug them on the way home,
allow up their houses and wreck the
works. and even murder d few men,
1ers OF the ~boycotted union to teach
IItS must oDtS tlc OIuCIS u
~orEanized Capital?"
Il would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things if lawful
&or the Labor Trust TO do them.
IN such a case, under Our laws the
~hoycotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order
the company to cease b~oycotting and
trTinC 10 ruin these union men. Sup
pose thereupon the company should
SIeer at the court ana in open defiance
continue the unlawful acts in a per
s%lstent, carefully laid out plan, pur-
poseiy intended to ruin the union
and force it's members into poverty
what a howl would go up from the
AOAon demanding that the courts pro-
tect them and punish their law-break-
fnE OppressOrs. 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.
flow could n of us receive protec-
zion from la~w-breakcrs unless the courts
have power to. and do punish such
men?
The court is placed in position where
Il must do n thing or the other
punish men who persist in dcfying its
EEaCe orders or go out OF service, let
anarchy reign, and the more powerful
destroy the weaker.
Peaceful 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 violence if
their members are punished for break
4ng he law. They van the courts to
let them go free and at the saaNs.:,ime
demand punishment for other men ''out-
side de union" when they break the
Law. Notice the above refer
enc to violent members of labor
unions. The great majority of the
~unheard" union men are peaceable,