The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-01-04

Some people swell up on "emouon
brcv'ed from abs olute 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 oi the
tale further on
Gompers ct al sheer az, spit upon
and defy our courts. seeking sympathy
5y falsely telling the people the courts
were trying to deprive them OF Tree
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
4 criminal conspiracy TO injure and
4 ruin other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
4 >}arted ont 10 ruin the Bucks Stove
Co. drive its hundreds of workmer
b out OF work and destroy the value oil
<<ta plant without regard 10 the fact
1thnf hard earned money OF men who
worked. had been invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts TO stop these vicious trust
methods tefforts TO break thu firm
3 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
( etructive and tvrannous acts as they
B may desire 10 do The
reason Gompcrs and his band persist
ed In trying To ruin the Bucks Stove
2 Works was because the stove company
Insisted ON the right TO keep some
y old employees at work when de
union" ordered them discharged anc
some OF de gang put in.
Now let MS reverse the conditions
y and have look
# Suppose the company had ordered
the union TO dismiss certain men iron
their union and, the demand being
refused, should institute a boycott
against that union. publish its name
\ IN an unfair list instruct other
manufacturers all over the United
States not to buy the labor oil that
lnion. have committees call at stores
and threaten to boycott il 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
few members of the boycotted union
\ 10 teach them they must obey the
orders OF organized Capital
II would certainly be fair for the
\ company 90 do these things II law.
ful for the Labor Trust to do them.
In sucn a case. under our laws the
+ bnycotted union could apply TO our
cour.s and the courts would order the
company to cease boycotting and try
Ing TO ruin these union men. Suppose
thereupon the company should sneer
& NJ the court end in open defiance con-
tinTe the unlawful acts In a persistent,
carefully laid oGt plan. purposely in
y fende1 TO ruin ;Ae union and force it's
X nlenlberB iLtU poverty What howl
WOULD go NJ from the union demand
p Ing maj the courts protect them and
punish their law-breaking oppressors.
+Ttlen they world praise the courts and
no on caring n living protected from
ruin aud happy in the knowledge that
the peoples courts could defend them
# How could any OF us receive pro-
<Iccfion from law-breakers unless the
+ roarts have power to. and do punish
4 rl.1h men
The court Is placed IN position
xvhere u must do one thing Of the
other--pun,sh men who persist in defy
inc It's peace orders or 60 out Of ser
Nice. let anarchy reign and the more
owcrfui destroy the weaker.
peaceable citizens sustain the
>onfts as their defenders. wherea:
bieyes. forgers. burglars. crooks OF al
&Inds and violent members Of labor
bnions. hate them and threaten
<ioIence II their members are punished
|or breaking the law. They want
He courts TO let them go free and al
#hc same time demand punishment
~ other men outside de union" wher
|hcs break the law. . . Notice thu
11ve reference Is TO violent" mem
ors of labor unions. The great ma
<I{y OF the ;'unheard" union men arr
.ocoablc. upright citizens. The noisy
1l<,,t ones sci into oiiics and thu
11pIf az the great Labor Trust know
~ 10 mass this kind Of men. In labor