The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-07-20

| A measure to protect the people
was butchered by cowardly Congress
men and saved by brave President
to whom honor is due for his protec-
/ tion.-= .-e-. rr-
5000, 100000 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 earning living.
Two or three large oil companies
might combine and conspire" to
freeze out a small dealer.
He has a right to conduct a bust
ness and earn a living for his family
and should have protection from com
binations" which "conspire" to ruin
him.
1t also applies to combinations"
of workrnen who "conspire" to drive
other wcrkmen 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 a 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 independent union smen out
of work until they join the big trust
and pay fees to the leaders.
One illustration viii suffice:
On June 22nd. 1910. the N. Y. Build
ing Trades Council (part of the Labor
TRUST declared strike of all trades
on a 12-story building at s5th 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
electricians" are employed.
These electricians belong TO union
formed under the arbitration plan some
time ago and kept their jobs The
employers afterward contracted, under
pressure, with the big trust and We're
told TO and did order the Independent
union to join the Labor Trust. The
men refused because they did not
like the trust methods of coercion,
bullying, smuggling and general violence.
This is only one illustration Of
hundreds of cases where the trust
"conspires in restraint or trade"
That is, by combination they con-
spire to and do stop work, interfere
with industry. and prevent men from
earning living unless they pay fees
To the trust leaders.
There is perhaps never one single
day in a year but what the Labor
Trust is engaged somewhere i'm Ameri-
ca, in restraining trade" preventing
men from working and stopping the
flow OF industry. No trust in this
country breaks the law one-tenth as
many times, or takes the bread from
mems mouths as frequently as the La
Dor Trust.
No trust has ever restrained
such volumes of work or stopped the
payment of so much money.
No trust has manned and killed
so many men or blown ND and destroy
ed SO much property and yet the attOr-
ney general has been held back from
prosecutions fer some unexplained rea-
son. What does a workingman care
about the prosecution OF the oil trust
when the big labor trust keeps him out
q work every now and then.
Suppose you write Pres. Taft and pslx
why the Atty Gen'l does not protest