The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-01-06
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 sympa-
thy 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 will object, but they cannot be
allowed to print matter as part of a
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 workmen
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 they dare"
the courts to punish them and de-
mand new laws to protect them in
such destructive and tyrannous acts
as they may desire to do.
The reason Gompers and his band
persisted 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
a0rnp ~ p1a qangh mt in
Now let us reverse the 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 a 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 II the mer-
chants sold anything made to 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
20 teach them they must obey the or
ders OF organized Capital?"
II would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things II lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such 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. Sup
pose thereupon the company should
sneer at the court and in open de-
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a persistent, carefully laid out plan
purposely attended to ruin the union
and force It's members into poverty
What a howl would go up from the
union demanding that the courts pro.
teet them and punish their law-break.
ing oppressors. Then they would
praise the courts and go on earning q
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 tbs
courts have power to, and do punish
such men.
The court Is placed In position
where II must do one thing or tho
other--punish men who persist In de
flying It's peace orders or go out %
service. let anarchy reign and tn,
more powerful destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain tn;
courts as their defenders, wherea
thieves. forgers. burglars, crooks o
all kinds and violent members OF la
Dor unions. hate them and threaten
violence II their members are pun
ished for breaking the law. The,
want the courts TO let them 60 fire.
and at the same time demand punish
ment for other men ''outside d
union" when they break the leW
Notice the above referenc
Is 10 violent members OF labo
unions The great majority OF III
"unheard" union men are peaceabls
upright citizens The noisy. yiolen
ones get into office and the leaders O
the great Labor Trust know how I
mass this kind Of men, in labor cor