The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-01-26

Some people swell up on "emotion'
Srewed from absolute untruth.
It's an old rick of the leaders OF
the Labor Trust to twist facts and
make the Sympathetic ones" weep
ut the ice house." (That's part OF
the tale further on.)
Gompers ct al. sheer at, spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympa-
thy by falsely telling the people the
courts were trying to deprive them OF
free speech and free press.
Men ian speak freely. and print
opinions freely in this country and no
court will object, but they cannot be
allowed to print matter as part or q
criminal conspiracy to injure ruln
other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
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 TACT
that hard earned money OF men WEo
worked had been invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop these vicious trust
methods (efforts to break the hrm
that won't come under trust rule),
but instead of stopping they dare
the courts to punish them and de-
mand new laws to protect them in
such destructive and tyrannous acts
as they may desire to do. =
The reason Gompers and his band
persisted in trying to ruin the Bucks
Stove Works was because the stove
company insisted on the right to keep
some old employees at 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
their union and, the demand being re-
fused, 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 of that
union, have committees call at stores
and threaten to boycott if the mer-
chants sold anything made to that
union. Picket the factories where
members work and slug them on the
way home, blow up their houses and
wreck the works, and even murder a
few members of the boycotted union
to teach them they must obey the Or
ders of "organized Capital?"
1t would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things if 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. Sup
nose thereupon the company should
sheer at the court and in open de-
fiance continue the unlawful acts in
a persistent, carefully laid out plan,
~purposely Intended to ruin the union
and force it's members into poverty.
What a howl would go up from the
union demanding that the courts pro-
tecI them and punish their laW-break-
ing oppressors. Then they would
praise the courts and go on earning a
living protected from ruin and happy
in the knowledge that the peoples
courts could defend them.
How could any of US receive pro-
lection from law-breakers unless the
courts have power to, and do punish
such men.
The court is placed in position
where it must do one thing or the
othcr-punish men who persist in de-
flying its peace orders or 60 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 la
Dor unions, hate them and threaten
violence if their members are pun
ishcd for breaking the law. They
want the courts to let them go free
and at the same tina demand punish
ment for other nlen outside de
union" when they break the law.
& = Notice the above reference
ia to violent" members of labor
unions. The great majority of the
~"unheard" union men are ~peaceablc,
upright citizens The noisy, violent
ones get into Office and the leaders of
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