The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02
Don't Weep At
The Ice House

Some people swell up on emotion
brewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick of the leaders of the
labor trust to twist facts and make
the sympathetic ones" weep at the
ice house" Chats part of the tale
further on.)
Gompers ct al sneer 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 can not be allowed
TO print matter part of criminal
conspiracy to injure and ruin other
citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co. drive its hundreds of work
men 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 come under trust rule). but
instead of stopping theye dare" the
courts to punish them and demand new
laws to protect them in such destruct-
i've and tyrannous acts as they may
desire to do The reason
Gompers and his band persisted in try
ing to ruin the Bucks stove works was
because the stove company insisted on
the right to keep some old employees
at work when "de union" ordered
them discharged and some of de gang"
put in.
Now let us reverse Nthe conditions
and have a look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
their union and, the demand being re-
fused, should institute boycott
against that union, publish its name
in an unfair list" instruct other
manufacturers all over the United
States not to buy the labor of that
union. have committees call at stores
and threaten TO boycott if the mer-
chants sold anything made by that
union Picket the factories where
members work and slug them on the
way home. blow up their houses and
wreck the works, and even murder a
few members Of the boycotted union
to teach them they must obey the
orders of organized capital?
1t would certainly be fair for the
company to do these, things if lawful
for the labor trust to do them.
In such a case, under our laws the
boycotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order the
company to cease boycotting and try
/ ing to ruin these union men. Suppose
thereupon the company should sneer
at the court and in open defiance con-
tinue the unlawful acts in persistent
carefully laid out plan, purposeIy in
! tended to ruin the union and force it's
members into poverty. What howl
would go up from the union demand
1 ing that the courts protect them and
punish their law breaking oppressors
Then they would praise the courts and
go on earning a living protected from
ruin and happy in the knowledge that
the peoples courts could defend them
How could any of us receive pro-
lection from law breakers unless the
courts have power to, and do punish
such men.
The court is placed in position whert
I IL must do one thing or the other
punish men who persist in defying its
peace orders or go out of service. let
anarchy reign and the more powerful
destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain the courts
as their defenders. whereas thieves
forgers. burglars, crooks of all kinds
and violent members of labor unions
hate them and threaten violence il
their members are punished for break
ing the law. They want the courts
to let them go free and at the same
time demand punishment for other
men outside de union" when they
break the law Notice the
above reference is TO violent mem
bers of labor unions. The great ma
iority of the "unheardv union men arc