The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-19

A measure to protect the people was
butchered by cowardly Congressman
and saved by brave President to whom
Ihonor is due for his protection.
| s2oo,ooo.oo was to be appropriated
for use by the Dept. OF Justice in pros
ecuting offenders against the Sherman
Antitrust Law, which is intended to
protect men at work, whether they be
working with hands, heads, or both.
Protect them from combinations and
conspiracies in restraint of trade"
That means combinations OF men who
conspire to prevent other men from earn
ing living.
Two or three large oil companies
might combine and conspire" to freeze
out smaller dealer
He has right to conduct business
and earn a living for his family and
should have protection from "combina-
tons which "conspire" to ruin him.
1t also applies to combination" Of
workmen who "conspire' to drive other
workmen from work.
The great Labor Trust has been
seized by certain men who now have
control
They force every member to pay fees,
which aggregate several hundred thou
sand dollars year.
They intend that no men who refuse
to pay fees TO them shall work.
Whenever independent men or those
who form their own union seek to work,
the big trust orders strikes on the jobs,
to force the independent men or inde-
pendent union men out OF work until
they join the big trust and pay fees to
the leaders.
One illustration will suffice:
On June 22nd, 1910, the N. Y. Build
ing Trades Council part OF the Labor
Trust) declared a strike OF all trades on
"a l2-story building at 55th and 9th Ave,
because Of the employment Of members
of an electrical union, not members Of
the trust. Work on the entire building
was stopped.
The Sec'y Of the trust said that
general strikes would be ordered on every
building where the OBNOXIOUS electri-
clans are employed.
These electricians belong to union
formed under the arbitration plan some
time ago and kept their jobs. The en-
.ployers afterward contracted, under pres
sure, with the big trust, and were told
to and did order the independent union
to join the Labor Trust. The men re-
fused because they did not like the trust
methods OF coercion, bullying, smuggling
and general violence.
This is only one illustration Of hun
dreds OF cases where the trust Con
spires in restraint Of trade
That is, by combination thew conspire
to and do stop work, ntefere with in
dustry, and prevent men from earning
a living unless they pay fees to the trust
leaders.
There is perhaps never one single day
day in a year but what the Labor Trust
is engaged somewhere in America, in
restraining trade, preventing men from
working and stopping the flow OF in
dustry. No trust in this country breaks
the law one.tenth as many times. or
takes the bread from mems mouths as
frequ .ntly as the Labor Trust
No trust has ever RESTRAINED" such
volumes Of work or stopped the payment
Of SO much money
No trust has MANNED and killed 50
many men or blown up and destroyed
50 much property and yet the attorney
general has been held back from pros
ecutions for some unexplained reason,
What does workingman care about
the prosecution Of the oil trust when
the bis labor trust keeps him out OF work
every now and then
Suppose you write Pres, Taft and ask
why the Atty Gen'l does not protect the