The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-07-19
Mob -Codd1ing
by Congressman

A measure to protect the people
was butchered by cowardly Congress-
men and saved by q brave President
to whom honor Is due for his protec
tion.
$2OO.Oo0.00 was to be appropriated
for e.by the Dept. Of Justice In pros
ecuting offenders against the Sherman
Antitrust law. which is intended
to protect man at work. whether they
be working with hands, heads. or both.
Protect them from combinations
and conspiracies in restraint Of trade" F"
That means combinations OF men
who conspire to prevent other men
from earning living.
Two or three large oil companies
might combine and conspire" to
freeze out small dealer.
He has right to conduct busi-
ntag snd earn a living for his family
and shovld have protection from COM
binstions'' which "conspire' to ruin
him.
4. It also applies to combination"
Of wofkmen 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 hundred
thousand dollars q year.
They intend that no men who
refuSe 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 out
OF work until they join the big trust
and pay fees to the leaders.
One Illustration will suffice:
On June 22nd. 1910. the n. Y. Build
Ing Trades Council (part OF the Labor
Trust) declared strike or all trades
on a l2-story building t 35th and 9Th
Ave. because OF the employment OF
members OF an electrical union, not
members ~6f the trust Work on the
entire building was stopped
The Sec'y of the trust" said that
eeneral strikes would be ordered on
every building where lie obnoxious
slectricLanK ple| employed
These Electricians belong to union
formed under the arbitration plan
some time ago -and kept their JOBS
The employers afterward CONTRACTED
under PRESSURE with the big trust and
we're 3ld 10 and did order the inde
pendent 6nion to join the Labor Trust
The men refused because they did moi
like the trust methods of coercion
bullying. slugglng and general VIC
Ience.
This Is only one iIInstrttion ol
hundreds OF cases where me trust
a..conspires In restraint of .tI Lde."
That is, by combInatio1 they con
spire to and do stop wo&. interfere
with industry, and prevet men from
earning living unless Ley pay fees
10 the trust leaders.
There is perhaps njver one single
day In a year but knat the Labo'
Trust Is engaged somewhere in Amer
lea. ii restraining trade preventing
men from working and stopping th'
flow OF industry. No trust In this
country breaks the law one-tenth al
many times, or takes the bread from
mems mouths az frequently as thu
Labor Trust.
No trust has ever restrained
such volumes Of work or stopped thu
payment OF so much money.
No trust has MANNED and kille'
80 many man or blown up and de
sfroyed 20 much property and yet tn
attorney-general has been held bacl
from prosecutions for some uneS
plaIned reason. What does work
Intman care about the prosecution o
The oil trust when the big labor trus
keeps him out Of work every NOV
and then.
suppose you. write Pres. Taft an
~ wv the Atty Qen'l does not prt
1ecf to people against the bisges