The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-02
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 sympathy
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.
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co., drive It's hundreds of workmen out
of work and destroy the value of the
plant without regard to the fact thst
hard earned money of men who worked,
had been invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop these vicious trust"
meth DDS efforts to break the firm that
won't come under trust rule), but in
stead of stopping they dare" the
courts to punish them and demand new
ldWS " pIOtcCt luclH ouSiit uSoti
tive and tyrapnous acts as they may
desire to do The reason Com
pers and his band persisted in trying
to ruin the Bucks Stove works was be-
cause the stove company insisted on
the right to keep some old employees al
work when "de union" ordered them
discharged and some of de gang"
put in.
Now let us reverse the conditions and
have a look.
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
tn cir union and, the demand being re-
fused, should institute boycott
against that union, publish its name
in an unfair list" instruct other man
ufacturers all over the United States
not to buy the labor of that union,
have committees call at stores and
threaten to boycott If the merchants
sold anything made by that union.
Picket the factories where members
work and slug them on tho way home.
blow up their houses and wreck the
works, and even murder a few mem
bers of the boycotted union to teach
them they must obey the orders of
"organized Capital?"
1t would ceretainly be fair for the
company to do these things II lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such a 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 sneer
at. the court and in open defiance con-
tinue the unlawful acts in a persistent
carefully laid out plan, purposely in
tended to ruin the union and force its
members into poverty. What a howl
would go up from the union demanding
that the courts protect them and pun
ish tn cir law reaking oppressors. Then
they would praise the courts and go
on earnirg a living protected from ruin
and happy in the knowledge that the
peoples courts could defend them.
How could any of us receive protec-
ton from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to, and do punish
such men?
The court In placed in position where
1t must do one thing or the other
punish men who persist I'm defyinG Its
peace orders OF 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 labor unions
hate them and threaten violence
their members are punished for break
ing the law. They want the courts to
let them go free and at the same time
demand punish ment 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 peace
able. upright citizens. The noisy.
violent ones get into office and the
leaders of tho great Labor Trust know