Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-01-12
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. sheer at, spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympathy
ny 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 demand
new laws to protect them in such de-
structive and tyrannous acts as they
may desire to do. The rea-
son 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 some of
de gang put in.
Now let us reverse the conditions
and have 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 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 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 or
ders of organized Capital?"
It would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things If 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. Suppose
thereupon the company should sheer
at the court and in open defiance con-
,tinue the unlawful acts in a persist
ent, carefully laid out plan, purposely
intended to ruin the union and force
its members into poverty. What a
howl would go up from the union de-
handing that the courts protect them
and punish their law-breaking oppres-
sors. Then they would praise the
courts and go on earning living pro-
tected 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
where it must do one thing or the
other-punish men who persist in de-
flying 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 la
Dor unions, hate them and threaten
violence il their members are punish
ed 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"
members of labor unions. The great
majority OF the "unheard' union men
are peaceable, upright citizens. The
noisy. violent ones get into Office and
the leaders of the great Labor Trust
know how to mass this kind Of men,