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

about thirty million workers in this
country and only about 100000 MEM
bers of the Labor Trust and that most
of them are coerced into membership.
| How can the authorities answer to the
vast army of 2S million free workers.
farmers and householders whose affairs
are from time to time interfered 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 100000 warkers, not members of
! the trust object to being driven from
work, or. having R. R. trains stopped with
all the far-raching losses, or the street
cars stopped and men and women pre-
vented from getting to and from work.
or factories struck and perhaps destroy
ed, 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all of a community withdrawn.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 1000 men who
had their own union, a 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 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
| O. fAr "a ~ oh mi, ~S
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 to
awaken every American to the ne
cessity of curbing such men In their
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 selfish
gain to themselves alone. without re-
the trust may be Inconvenience and
| damaged.
The trust leaders, to make stronger
their control of members, fight 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 200.000.00 APP
preparation bill came up they deluged
Congress with demands to exempt
combinations of labor from prosecution
If they broke the law and. startling as II
may 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 sub
nit to the damage. losses. insolence
and idleness put upon them by the
comparatively small band Of trust mem
lbers
i why were these Congressman cow
ards?" you ask. Because the trust
managers sent word to their local man.
ayers in all parts Of the country in
structing them to fire In letters and tele
grams to Congressman whenever a bill
to give the trust more power is intro
lduced.
+ The great mass of citizens who are I,
be tyrannized over have no organization
to warn them to notify Congressman Of