The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-19


members Of the Labor Trust and that
most of them are coerced into men,
bership.
How can the authorities answer to
the vast army of % million free work
ers. farmers and householders whose
affairs are from time to time inter.
fered with and who have to bear the
loss Of wages, and the general heavy
loss OF stopped industries brought
about by the leaders of the Labor
Trust in their manipulation of men
seeking to drive them into fee-paying
slavery?
The 2S.OOO,OOO workers. not men,
bers of the trust, object to being driv-
en- from work, or having r. r. trains
stopped with all the far-reaching loss
es. or the street cars stopped and men
and women prevented from getting to
and from work, or factories struck and
perhaps destroyed. the weekly pay roll
stopped and the sustenance of at least
part and perhaps all of a community
withdrawn.
The great Philadelphia street car
strike was forced by the big Labor
Trust, not on account of wages and
hours, but to throw out about 1900
men who had their own union a peace
able one.
These men did not want to pay fees
to the trust leaders and be subject to
their whims SO they formed their own
| union for self protection. Thereupon
the big trust called a strike. blew up
and burned cars, attacked and slaught.
cred men. kept people from getting
to and from work, forced their other
slaves to quit work and cost the people
of Phil. several million dollars and
untold suffering and Inconvenience
solely for the purpose of showing
them the power of the Labor Trust to
force" people to mind" and force
these independent men to join the
trust. "obey" and pay fees to the lead
ers.
/ That is a serious state of affairs In
this free country and is enough tc
awaken every American to the ne
cessity of curbing such men in thei,
insane race for notoriety. power and
fee-gathering.
Citizens want industry. commerce
and wages to continue without inter
ference from any set of men either
employers or employees who seek self
ish gain to themselves alone. without
regard to how much all the peopl,
outside the trust may be inconven
, fenced and damaged.
The trust leaders, to make stronger
their control Of members, tight val
iantly to be allowed to boycott ant
conspire to ruin all free citizens eth
er employers or workmen who do no
pay fees to the trust leaders.
Therefore when this 500 OO.OO ap
, preparation bill came up they deluge,
r Congress with demands to exemp
combinations of labor from prosecu
: ton II they broke the law and startlin,
3 as 1t may seem. over = hundred Con
: gressmen voted to 50 exempt them. Il
Y other words voted to permit one set o
5 men to break the law and dominat
r the great majority OF citizens, Will
the majority must keep the law an
. submit to the damage, losses. insolenc
ouu iuicuccS Put uPOu tucm " VI
comparatively small hand of trus
4 members.
: "Why were these Congressman Gov
: ards?" you ask. Because the trus
a managers sent word to their locs
d managers In all parts Of the countr
e instructing them to IRE letters an
( kilograms to Congressmen wheneve
n a bill to give the trust more power
introduced.
The Great mass Of citi1ens who ar
, to be tyrannised over have no organ
d ixation to warn them to notify Con
gressmen Of their wishes and % II
. heavy nre comes from but one nd