The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-20
Mob-Coddling
by COngressmen

A measure to protect the people
was butchercd by cowardly congress
men and saved BY bravo president
10 whom honor Is due for his protec-
ton.
S2oo.00000 was TO be appropriated
for use by tho Dept. Of Justice in
prosecuting offenders against the
Sherman Antitrust Law. which is In
tended to protect men at work, wheth-
CT they be working with hands, heads.
or both.
Protect them from "combina-
tons and conspIracies In restraint of
trade"
That means combinations OF men
who conspire to prevent other men
from earning a living
Two or three large oil companies
might combine and conspire" to
! freeze out small dealer.
He has a right to conduct a busI-
. ness and earn living for his family
and should have protection from
combinations which "conspire" TO
ruin him.
1t also applies TO combinations"
OF workmen who "conspire" TO drive
other worimen 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
thousand dollars year.
They intend that no men who re-
fuse to pay fees to them shall work
Whenever independent men OF
those who form their own union
seek to work. the big trust orders
strikes on the jobs. to force the In
dependent men or independent union
men out of work until they join the
big trust and pay fees to the lead
ers.
One illustration will suffice:
On June 22nd, 1910, the y. Y.
Building Trades Council (part OF the
Labor TrusD declared strike OF
all trades on l2-story building at
36th and avenue, because of the
employment Of members OF an cleo
trfcal 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 "obnox-
ious electricians are employed.
These electricians belong TO a un-
ron formed under the arbitration plan
rome time ago and kept their Jobs.
The employees afterward consented
under pressure, with the big trust and
were told TO and did order the inde-
pendent union to join the Labor
Trust The men refused because
they did not like the trust methods
OF coercion. bullying, slugging and
general violence.
This Is only one illustration OF
hundreds OF cases where tho trust
"conspires in restraint OF trade"
That Is, by combination, they con-
spire 10 and do stop work, interfere
With Industry, and prevent men from
earning a living unless they pay fees
to the trust leaders.
There is perhaps never one single
day in year but what the Labor
Trust is engaged somewhere In Amer
lea, In restraining trade" prevent
Ing 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
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 so
many men or blown up and destroy.
cd so much property and yet the at
torney-gencral has been held back
from prosecutions for some unexplain.
ed reason. What does a working
man care about tho prosecution OF
tho oil trust when tho big labor trust
keeps him out OF work every now and
then.
Suppose you write Pres. Taft and ask
Why the Atty Gen does not protect the