The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-20

measure to protect the people was
butchered by cowardly Congressman and
saved by a brave President to whom
honor is due for-his protection.
$500, 10000 was to be appropriated for
use by the Dept. of Justice in prosecut-
ing offenders against the Sherman Anti
Trust 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 a living.
Two or three large oil companies might
combine and conspire' to freeze out
small dealer.
He has a right to conduct a business
and earn a living for his family and
should have protection from "combina-
tons which "conspire' to ruin him.
1t also applies to combinations" 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 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 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. 7. Build
ing Trades Council (part of the Labor
Trust) declared strike of all trades on
a 12-story building at 35th and 9Th Ave-
because of the employment of members
of an electrical union, not members OF
the trust. Work on the entire Dululne
was stopped. sl
The Sec'y of the trust said that gen.
eral strikes would be ordered on every
building where the obnoxious electri-
Clans are employed.
These electricians belong to a union
formed under the arbitration plan some
time ago and kept their jobs. The en-
ployers afterward contracted, under pres
ure, with the big trust and We're told &c
and did order the independent union te
Join the Labor Trust. The men refused
because they did not like the trust meth,
DDS of coercion, bullying, slugg1ng ane
general violence.
This is only one illustration of hundreds
of cases where the trust "conspires II
restraint Of trade"
That is, by combination they conspirt
to and do stop work. interfere with IN
dustry, and prevent men from earning
living unless they pay fees to the trus
! leaders.
There is perhaps never one single ga!
in a year but what the Labor trust II
engaged somewhere in America, In re
straining trade" preventing men from
working and stopping the flow OF NOUS
try. No trust in this country preaK
the law one-tenth as many times, o.
takes the bread from mems mouths al
frequently as the Labor Trust.
No trust has ever restrained suci
volumes of work or stopped the paymen
of so much money. ,-
No trust has matmed and killed s.
many men or blown up and destroyed
so much property and yet the attorney
general has been held back from pros
ecutions for some unexplained reason
What does workingman care ABOUT ~
prosecution of the or trust when the pll
labor trust keeps him out OF Work ever
now and then.
Suppose you write Pres Taft ana ar
why the Atty Gen'l does not protect ths
people against the biggest ana mos
hurtful trust we have.
] The authorities forget there arr