The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-02

Some people swell up on emotion"
brewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick Of the leaders Of tho
sympathetic ones" weep at the lee
house" CHATS part OF the tale further
on,)
Gompcrs 81 al snecr at, spit upon and
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-
ions freely in this country and no court
will object but they cannot be allowed
TO print matter as part of a criminal
conspiracy to injurc and ruin other citi-
zcrs.
Gompers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove Co.
drive its hundreds of worktnen out OF
work and destroy the value of the plant
without regard to the fact that hard
earned money Of men who worked had
been invested there.
The conspirators were told BY the courts
to stop these vicious trust" methods
efforts to break the firm that won't conc
under trust rule, but instead Of stopping
they dare the courts to punish them.
and demand new laws to protect them in
such destructive and tyrannous acts as
they may dcsircsto dos. The
reason Gompeis ard bis band persisted in
trying to ruin the Bucks Stove Works was
because The stove company insisted OH the
right to keep some old employees at work
when de union" ordered them discharged
and some OF dc gang" put in.
Now, let us reverse the conditions and
have look
suppose the company had ordered the
union to dismiss certain men from their
union, and the demand being refused,
should institute a boycott against that
union, publish its name ils an unfair
list, instruct other manufacturers all
over the United States not to buy tic
labor of that union, have committees call
at stores and threaten to BOYCOTT If the
merchants sold anything made by that
union. Picket the factories where mem
bers work and slug them on the way home,
blow up their houses and wreck tho works,
and even murder a few members Of the
boycotted union to teach them they must
obey the orders Of organized Capital?
II would certainly be fair for the com
pany.to do these things if lawful for the
Labor Trust 10 do them.
In such a case, under our laws, the boy
cottcd union could apply to our courts,
and the courts would order the company
to cease boycotting and trying to ruin
these union men. Suppose thereupon the
company should ,sncer at the court and
in open defiance continue the unlawful
acts i'll persistent, carefully laid out plan
purposely intended to ruin the union and
force its members into poverty, What
a howl would 80 up from the union dc.
handing that the courts protect them and
punish their law breaking oppressors
Then they would praise the courts and "a
on earning living protected from ruiz
and happy in the knowledge that tht
peoples courts could defend them.
How could any Of us receive protection
from law-breakers unless the courts have
power to and do punish such men.
The court is placed ia position
where II must do one thing or the
other-punish men who persist in
deiyine its peace orders or 90 out oil
service, let anarchy reign and the
more powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaeeable citizens sustain the courts as
their defenders, whereas thieves, forecrS
burglars, crooks OF all kinds and violent
members Of labor unions hate them anc
threaten violence if their members arc
punished for breaking the law They
want the courts TO let then, 30 free, anc
at the same time demand punishment fol
other men outside dc uuion" when tlicy
break the law. Notice the aboy,
reference is to violent members Of gabo
unions The great majority Of the 'un
heard union men are pcaccablc, uprighr
citizens. The noisy, violent ones get int,
ahice, and the leaders Of the great Labo