The San Francisco call., 1910-07-19

| A measure to protect the people wa:
| butchered by cowardly Congressmer
! and saved by a brave President tt
whom honor is due for his protection
5000, 100000 was to be appropriatec
| for use by the Dept. of Justice in pros
ecuting Offenders against the Sherman
Anti Trust law, which is intended tt
protect men at work. whether they bt
working with hands, heads, or both.
Protect them from combination!
and conspiracies in restraint of trade
That means combinations of men who
conspire 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 a business
and earn a living for his family anc
should have protection from 'combina-
tions" which "conspire" to ruin him.
1t also applies to combinations o1
workmen who ''conspire" to drive other
workmen from work.
The great Labor Trust" has beer
seized by certain men who now have
control.
They force every member to pay
fees. which aggregate several hundred
thousand dollars 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 &c
work. the big trust orders strikes or
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, 1870. the N. Y. Build
ing Trades Council (part of the Labor
Trust) declared strike of all trades
on a 12-story building at 35th 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 Secy 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 independent
union to Join the Labor Trust. The
men refused because they did not like
tbe trust methods of coercion, bullying,
Singing and general violence.
This is only one illustration of hun
dreds of cases where the trust con
spjres in restraint of trade.
That is, by combination they con-
snire to and do stop work, interfere
with industry, and prevent men from
earning a living unless they pay fees
to the trust leaders.
There is perhaps never one single
day in a year but what the Labor
Trust is engaged somewhere in Ameri-
ca in restraining trade" preventing g
men from working and stopping the
flow of industry. No trust in this coun-
try breaks the law one-tenth as. many
times or takes the bread from mems
mouths as frequently as the Labor
Trust.
No trust has ever restrained such
volumes of work or stopped the pay
ments of so much money.
No. trust has manned and killed so
many men or blown up and destroyed
so much property and yet the attorney
general has been held back from pros
ecutions for some unexplained reason
What does a workingman care about
the prosecution of the oil trust when
the big labor trust keeps him out of
work every now and then?
Suppose you write Pres. Taft and ask
why the Atty Genl does not protect
the people against the biggest and