The San Francisco call., 1910-07-19
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by Congressn7en

most hurtful trusts we have.
The authorities forget there are
about thirty million workers in this
country and only about 100000 mem
bers of the Labor Trust and that most
of them are coerced into membership.
How can the authorities answer to
the vast army of 2S million free work
ers, farmers and householders whose
affairs are from time to time inter
fered with and who have to bear the
loss of wages and the general heavy
loss of stopped industries brought
about by the leaders of the Labor Trust
in their manipulation of men seeking
to drive them into feel paying slavery?
The 2S.000,000 workers, not mem
bers of the trust, object to being driven
from work, or having r. r. trains
stopped with all the far-reaching
losses, or the street cars stopped and
men and women prevented from get
ting to and from work. or factories
struck and perhaps DESTROYED. the
weekly pay roll stopped and the sus-
tenance of at least part and perhaps
all of a community Withdrawn.
The great Philadelphia street car
strike was forced by the big Labor
Trust not on account of wages and
hours but to throw out about 1000 men
who had their own union, a peaceable
one.
These men did not want to pay fees
to the trust leaders and be subject to
their whims so they formed their own
union for self protection. Thereupon
the big trust called strike, blew up
and burned cars, attacked and slaught-
cred men, kept people from getting to
and from work, forced their other
slaves to quit work and cost the people
of Phil several million dollars and un-
@aJJ A,@i, nd cnl1 al
for the purpose of Showing" them the
power of the Labor Trust to force
people to mind" and force these in
dependent men to join the trust, "obey'
and pay fees to. the leaders.
That is a serious state of affairs in
this free country and is enough to
awaken every American to the neces-
sane race for notoriety, power and fee
gathering.
Citizens want industry, commerce
and wages to continue without inter-
ference from any set of men either
employers or employees who seek self
ish gain to themselves alone, without
regard to how much all the people out
side the trust may be inconvenienced
and damaged.
The trust leaders, to make stronger
their control of MEMBERS fight vail
antly to be allowed to boycott and con-
spire to ruin all free citizens either
employers or workmen who do not pay
fees to the trust leaders.
Therefore when this $200,000.00 ap-
preparation bill came up they deluged
Congress with demands to exempt
combinations of labor from prosecution
if they broke the law and, startling as
it may seem, over hundred Congress
men voted to so exempt them. In
other words voted to permit one set of
men to break the law and dominate
the great majority of citizens. while
the majority must keep the law and
submit to the damage, losses, insolence
and idleness put upon them by the
comparatively small band Of trust
members.
why were these Congressman cow
ards?" you ask. Because the trust
managers sent word to their local man
ayers in all parts of the country in
structing them to fire in letters and
kilograms to Congressman whenever
bill to give the trust more power is
introduced.
The great mass of citizens who are
to be tyrannized over have no organ
ization to warn them to notify Con-
gressmen of their wishes and so the
heavy fire. comes from but one side,