The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-19

people against the biggest and most
hurtful trust we have.
The authorities forget there are about
thirty million workers in this country
and only about 100000 members OF
the Labor Trust and that most Of them
are eoeEced INTO membership.
| How can the authorities answer to the
vast army OF % million free workers,
farmers and houscholders whose affairs
are from time to time interferred with
and who have to bear She 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 100000 workers. not members
of the trust, object to being driven from
work, or having r. R. trains stopped
with all the far-reaching losses. 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 sus-
tenance 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| of a community withdrawn.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 1000 men who had their
own union, peaceable 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 strike, blew up and
burned cars, attacked and slaughtered
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 leaders.
That is a serious state OF affairs in this
free country, and is enough to awaken
every American to the necessity OF curb
ing such men in their insane race for noto-
riety, power and fee-gathering.
Citizens want industry, commerce and
wages to continue without interference
from any set OF men, either employers
or employees, who seek selfish gain to
themselves alone, without regard to how
much all the people outside the trust may
be Inconvenience and damaged.
The trust leaders, to make stronger
their control Of members, hight valiantly
to be allowed to boycott and conspire
TO ruin all free citizens, either employers
or workmen, who do not pay fees to the
trust leaders.
Therefore when this s2oo,ooO.oo ap-
propriation bill came up they deluged
CONGRESS with demands to exempt com
3binations OF labor from prosecution if
they broke the law and, startling as it
NAV seem, over hundred Congressman
voted to SO exempt them. In other words.
voted to permit one set Of men to break
the law and dominate the great majority
Of citizens, while the majority must keep
the law and submit to the damage, losses.
insolence and idleness put upon them by
the comparatively small band of trust
members.
"Why were these Congressman cow
ards?" you ask. Because the trust man
ayers sent word to their local managers
in all parts of the country instructine
them to FIRE in letters and kilograms to
Congressman whenever bill to give the
trust more power is introduced,
The great mass of citizens who are to
be tyrannized over have no organization
to warn them to notify Congressman Of |!
their wishes, and so the heavy FIRE comes
from but one side (the Labor Trust sde)
and thus impresses the members OF Con-
gress with the belief that the whole mass