Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1910-07-21

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 protec-
ton
5000. 100000 was to be appropriated
for use by the Dept Of Justice IN pros
ecuting offenders against the sherman
Antitrust law, which is intended
10 protect men AZ work whether thew
be working with hands, heads, or both
Protect them from combinations
and conspiraoies in restraint of trade.
That means combinations OF men
who conspire to prevent other men
from earning q living.
Two or three large oil companies
might combine and conspire 70
freeze out a small dealer
He has p right to conduct A bust
ness and earn living for his family
and should have protection from
combinations" which "conspire' 10
ruin him.
Il 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 hundred
thousand dollars a year
They intend that no men who
refuse 10 pay fees to them shall work.
Whenever independent men OF those
who form their own union seek 10
work. the big trust orders strikes on
the Jobs. TO force the independent
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 a strike OF al trades
on a history building az S5th and 9Th
Ave. because Of the employment OF
members Of an electrical union, not
members of the trust Work on the
entire building was stopped.
The Sec'y Of the trust" said that
general strikes would be ordered on
every building where the obnoxious
electricians" are employed.
These electricians belong to a union
formed under the arbitration plan
some time ago and kept their jobs
THE employers afterward contracted
under pressure, with the big trust
and were told to and did order the
indenendent union to join the Labor
Ernst. The men refused because they
did not like the trust methods OF CO.
ercion. bullying, smuggling and general
violence.
This is only one illustration Of
hundreds of cases where the trusi
"consnires in restraint OF trade.
That is. by combination they con
SHIRE to and do stop work, interfere
with industry. and prevent men from
earning a living unless they pay rect
TO the trust leaders.
There is perhaps never one single
day in a year but what the Labor
Trust is engaged somewhere in Amer
lea. in restraining trade" prevent
ing men from working and stoppint
the flow of industry. No trust in TINS
country breaks the low one-tenth as
many times. or takes the bread IRON
mems mouths as frequently as tn'
Labor Trust.
No trust has ever restrained
such volumes of work or stopped tn'
payment of so much money.
No trust has manned and killed
so many men or blown up and de
stroyed so much property and yet IN,
Encouragement has been held bacl
from prosecutions for some uneNplain
ed reason. What does workingmal
care about the prosecution OF the oil
trust when the big labor trust keep
him out OF work every now and then
Suppose you write Pres. Taft ant
ask why the Atty Gent does not pro
tect the people against the bigges
| and most hurtful trust we have.