Bisbee daily review., 1910-07-19

A measure to protect the people was butchered by cowardly Congress- men and saved by a brave President to whom honor is due for his pro lection .. $200, ,0OO00 was to be appropriated for use by the Dept Of Justice in prosecuting offenders against the Sherman Antitrust law, which is ln- tended to protect men at work whether they be working with hands heads or both.
 Protect them from combinations and conspiracies in restraint of trade"
 That means combinations of men who eonspire to prevent other men from earning a living.
 Two or three large oil companies might combine and conspire |" to freeze out a small dealer
 He has a right to conduct busi- ness and earn living for his family and should have protection from "ccrn nbinations'' which "conspire" to ruin him.
 It also applies to combinations of workmen who "conspire" to drive other workmen from work
 The great Labor Trust has been seized by certain men who now have control.
 They force every member to pay fees, which aggregate several hun dred thousand dollars a year.
 They intend that no men who re fuse to pay fees to them shall work Whenever Independent men or those who form their own union seek to work. the big trust orders strikes on the jobs. to force the independent men or independent union men oui of work until they join the big trust and pay fees to the leaders.
 One illustration will suffice:
 On June 22, 1910 the N. Y. Build ing Trades Council (part Of the Labol Trust declared a strike of all trades on a 12-story building at 35th and 6tf Ave. because of the employment O members of an electrical union, no members of the trust. Work on th' e0Ilfe DullQlnE hdc 5tCbENA-
 The Secretary of the trust salt that general strikes would be ordere' on every building where the "obH0< ious electricians" are employed
 These electricians belong to | union formed under the arbitration plan some time ago and kept thei jobs. The employers afterward con tracted. under pressure, with the bii trus, and were told to and did orde the independent union to join th Labor Trust The men refused be cause they did not like the trus methods of coercion bullying, slug eing and general violence
 This is only ons illustration c hundreds of cases where the trus "eonspires in restraint of trade"
 That is, by combination they cor spire 10 and do stop work, interfer with industry, and prevent men fror earning a living unless they pay fee to the trust leaders.
 There is perhaps never one sinsl dav in a year but what the Labc Trust is engaged somewhere in Anne ica in restraining trade" preventin men from working and stopping tt How of industry. No trust in th country breaks the law onetenth many times or takes the bresti fro mems mouths as frequently as tf Labor Trust.
 No trust has ever restrained such volumes of work or stopped T payment of so much money.
 No trust has mairned and kill go many men or blown up and c stroyed so much property and y the attorney-general has been he back from prosecutions for some T expIained reason. What does a wor ingmsn care about the prosecute of the oil trust when the big lab trust keeps him out of work eve now and then.
 Suppose you write President Ti and ask why the Attorney Gener does not proteci the people again the biggest azd most hurtful tru we have.