The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-02
DON'T Weep al
The Ice House

Some people swell up on "emotion "
brewed from absolute untruth.
1t 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.l
Gompers ct al sneer at, spit upon and
falsely telling the people the courts
wcro irving 10 deprive them of free
speech and free press.
Men can speak freely ard print opin.
iops freely in this country and no court
VIII object, bat they cannot be allowed
to print matter as part Of q criminal
conspiracy to injure and ruin other
citizens.
Gnmpers and his trust associates
started out TO ruin the Bucks Stove Co.
drive its hundreds of worlsmen 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 10 break the firm that
won I como under trust rule), but in,
stead of stopping they "dare' the
courts 20 punish them in such destruct
i've and tyrannous acts as they may dc
sire TO do. The reason Comp
ers and his band persisted in trying to
ruin the Bucks Stove Works was be-
cause the stove company insisted on
the rIrht TO keen some old EMPLOYEES
ri work when "de union ordered them
discharged and some Of "de gang
put in.
Now let US reverse the conditions
and have n 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 Gun
fair list. y instruct other manufacturers
all OVER the United States not to buy
the labor Of that union. have commit.
tees call AT stores and threaten to boy
cott If the merchants sold anything
made by that union, picket the fac
tories where members work and slug
them on the way homo. blow IN their
houses and wreck the works. and even
murder n few members Of the bovcotted
union to teach them thev must obey
the orders of "organized Capitalp
1t would certainly he fair for the
.ompanv to do these things if lawful
ior the Labor Trust TO do them.
In such a case. under onr laws the
hovcotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order the
company to cease bovcotting and try
ing to- ruin these union men. Suppose
thereupon the company should sneer at
the court and in open defiance continue
the unlawful acts in a persistent. care
fully laid out rlan, purposelv intended
10 min the union and force its mem
hcrs into poverty. Whist howl wcnld
rn up from the union demanding that
tho courts protect them and punish their
lawhreaking oppressors. Then they
would rraise the courts and go on earn
ipp living protected from ruin and
hanpy in thc knowledge that the peo-
pie g courts could defend them
How could any of us receive protec-
ron from Iaw-breakers unless the courts
have power In. and TO punish such men ?
The court is plared in position where
II 1nust do one thing or the other
runish men who persist in defying its
peace orders or go out of service, let
fuarchv reign and the more powerful
destroy tie weaker.
Pcaceable citizens sustain the courts
Fs their defenders. whereas thieves
forgers. burglars crooks Of all kinds
md violent members of labor unions
hate them and threaten violence if their
members are punished for breaking the
law. They want the courts to let them
30 free and at the same time demand
punishment for other men "outsidc do
nnion when they break the law.
Notice the above reference is tc
'violent'' members of labor unions The
great majority of the "unhcard union
mon arc .peaceable, upright citizens. The
noisy, violent ones get into office. and
know how TO mass this kind of men, II