The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-02
Don't Weep 1t
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." (That's 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 we're trying to deprive them Of
free speechs 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
criminal conspiracy to iniure and run
other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
started l,3 ant7 rs 1hd she tllG
sy.Tl.ssf -sporse- and des~rUys the value OF
ffi1e plant without regard to the TACT
that hard earned money OF men VINO
worked, had been invested there,
The conspyators were told 10y the
courts 10 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 demana
new laws TO protect them in such de-
structive and tyrannouS acts as they
may desire to do The reason
Compers and his band persisted in
irving to ruin the Bucks Stove Works
was because the stove company in
sisted on the right to keep some old
enplOvces at work when de union
ordered them discharged and some OF
ode gang" put in.
Now let us reverse the conditions
and have a look.
Sunn0se the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men
from their union and, the demand be-
inc refused, should institute boy
colt against that union, publish It's
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
merchants sold anything made by thai
uniou. Picket the factories where
members work and slug them on the
way home. blow up their houses ant
wreck the works, and even murder {
Few members of the hOycOtted untoI
10 teach them they must obey thi
orders of organized Capital?'
II would certainly be fair for tn
company to do these things If Lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a case, under our laws tn
hovcotted union could apply to on
co,trts and the courts would orde
tbe companv to cease bOyCOtting an
irvine to ruin these union men. SUI
nose thereuDon the company ShOul
eneer at the court and in open DEF
apce continue the unlawful acts in
nersistent. carefully laid out plal
nuruoselv intended to ruin the unto
and force its members into PoVerL
What a howl would so up from tn
union demanding that the courts pr
tect them and punish their laW-bFea,
ing Oppressors. Then they won
praise the courts and 90 on earning
living projected from ruin and hap]
i'm the knowledge that the people
courts could defend them.
How could any of US receive pr
lection from law-breakers unless Il
courts have power to, and do punl'
The court is placed in positi,
where II must do one thing or the OF
er-punish men who persist IN oe'
inc its peace orders or 60 out OF 81
vice. let anarchy reign and the mo
powerful destroy the weaker.
Pcaceable citizens sustain |
courts. as their defenders "neIS
thieves. forgers. burglars, CROOKS
all kinds and violent members OF
Dor unions, hate them and threat
violence If their members are nl
ished for breaking the law. Tn
+. want the courts TO let them go II
and at the same time demand p'
ishment for other men outside
union" when they break the law
Notice the above reference is to "
lent" members OF labor unions. /
great majority of the ''unheaI
union men are peaceabie. upright c
zens The noisy, violent ones get il
Office and the leaders of the great
49, Trust know how to mass {