The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-19
Mob CoddIing
by congressman

Il
measure to protect the people
was butchered by cowardly congress
men and saved by a brave President
to whom honor is due for his protec-
ton
S200,000.00 was to be appropriated
for use by the Dept. of Justice in prose
cutting offenders against the Sher-
man Antitrust law, which is intend
ed to protect men at work, whether
they be working with hands, heads, or
BOTH
Protect them from combinations
and conspiracies in restraint OF
trade"
That means combinations of men
who conspire to prevent other men
from earning living
Two or three large oil companies
might combine and conspire" to
freeze out small dealer.
He has right to conduct a bust
ness and earn a living for his family
and should have protection from com.
binationsv which "conspire" to ruin
him.
1t also applies to combinations"
of workmen who "conspire" to drive
other workmen 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 hun
bred thousand dollars year.
They intend that no men who refuse
to pay fees to them shall work
Whenever independent men or those
who form their own union seek tc
work, the big trust orders strikes or
the jobs to force the independent
men or independent union men out Of
work until they join the big trust and
pay fees to the leaders.
One illustration will suffice:
On June 22nd, 1910, the N. Y. Build
ing Trades Council (part Of the labor
Trust) declared strike of all trades
on a 12-story building at S5th and /
Ave, because of the employment O
members of an electrical union, no
members Of the trust. Work on the
entire building was stopped.
The Secy 0. the trust said tina
general strikes would be ordered OF
every building where the "obnoxiou!
electricians" are employed
These electricians belong to unioI
formed under the arbitration plar
some time ago and kept their jobs
The employers afterward contracted
under pressure, with the big trust ant
were told to and did order the indepen
lent union to Join the Labor Trust
Inc men refused because they did no
IKE the trust methods of coercion
puilylng slugSin>, and general violence
This is only one illustration of hun
dreos OF cases where the trust "con
spires in restraint of trade,
Inat, is by combination thew con
spire TO and do stop work, interfer
with industry, and prevent men from
earning living unless they pay fee
70 the trust leaders.
mere is perhaps never one singh
gay IN year but what the Labo
trust is engaged somewhere in Amer
ca IN restraining trade preventing
men from working and stopping tn
How of Industry. No trust in thi
country breaks the law one-tenth. a
many times, or takes the bread iron
mems mouths as frequently as TIL
Labor Trust.
no trust has ever restrained sue
volumes of work or stopped the pay
ment OF so much money.
NO trust has manned and killed S.
many men or blown up and destroye
SO much property and yet the attoi
ney-general has been held back fron
prosecutions for some unexplaine
reason. What does working maj
care about the prosecution of the Of
trust when tic big labor trust keep
MIN out of work every now and Their
Suppose you write Pres. Taft an
ask why the Atty Genl does not Pre-
tect the people against the bigges