The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-04

Some people swell up on emotion
brewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick of the leaders oil
the Labor Trust to twist facts and
make the sympathetic ones weep al
the ice house" tThat's part oil the
tale further on)
Gompers ct al sheer 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
opinions freely In this country and
no court viii object. but they cannot
be allowed 10 print matter as part o,
q criminal conspiracy TO injure ano
ruiu other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
| Co, drive It's hundreds of workmen
out OF work and destroy the value oil
the plant without regard to the fac'
thar hard earned money OF men who
worked. had been invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts 10 stop these vicious trust
methods tefforts To break the firm
] that won't come under trust rule), but
| instead OF stopping they dare the
courts to punish them and demand
new laws to protect them In such de-
structive and tyrannous acts as they
NAV desire TO do. The
reason Gompcrs and his band persist
ed in trying 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 the conditions
and have look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to disrniss certain men from
| their union and, the demand being
refused, 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. haze committees call at stores
and threaten to boycott II the mer-
chants sold anything made by that
union. Picket the factories where
members work and slug them on the
I WAY EOiftt, DlOW w AhCli hOhotS ohNa
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 II law
ful for the Labor Trust TO do them.
In such a case. under our laws the
boycotted union could apply 10 our
courts and the courts would order the
company to cease boycotting and try
ing to ruin these union men Suppose
thereupun the company should sheer
at the court and In open defiance con-
tinue the unlawful acts in persistent.
carefully laid out plan. purposely in
tended TO ruin the union and force it's
msmbe rs inc poverty. What a howl
would GO up from the union demand
ing that the courts protect them and
punish their law-breaking oppressors.
Then they world praise the courts and
go on caring living protected from
ruin aud happy In the knowledge that
the peoples courts could defend them.
How could any OF Tie receive pro-
, lection from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to, and do punish
such men.
The court Is placed in position
where IL must do one thing OF the
other--punish men who persist in defy
ina It's peace orders or 90 out Of SER
vice, let anarchy reign and the more
powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaceable c,ilzens sustain the
courts us their defenders, whereas
thieves. forgers. burglars, crooks OF all
kinds and violent members OF labor
unions, hate them and threaten
violence II their members are punished
for breaking 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.
jority OF the "unheard'' union men are
peaccable, upright citizens. The noisy.
violent ones set info ollics and the
leaders of the great Labor Trust know
how 10 mass this kind of men. in labor