The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1910-01-02

/ some people swell up On emotion"
brewed from absolute untruth-
It's an old trick OF the leaders Of the
Labor Trust 70 twist facts and make the
..sy-rupathetic ones weep At the Ice
house" CHATS part Of the tale further
l or
Gompers 81 al. sheer az, spit upon and
defy our courts, seeking sympathy by
I falsely telling the people the courts were
/ trying to deprive them Of free speech
and free press
! Men can speak freely and print opin-
/ ions freely IN this country and no court
viii object, but they cannot be allowed
/ 10 print matter as part Of Grimm al
I conspiracy 30 injure and ruin other
/ citizens
1 Gompers ans his trust associates
1 st8rted out To ruin the Bucks Stove Co.
drive its hundreds Of vUrlUnen out OF
/ work and destroy the value Of the
/ plant without regard 70 the fact that
/ hard earned money Of men who worked,
I had been invested there
The conspirators were told by the
courts to stop these vicious trust
/ methods. EFFORTS 10 break the finn that
/ won't come under trust rule). but in
stead OF stopping they dare the courts
/ to punish them and demand new laws
! 20 protect them in such destructive and
ltyTannous acts as they may desire 10 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 keer
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 agains
that union, publish its name in an ''un
fair list" instruct other manufacturer
4 all over the United States not to bur
the labor OF that union, have commit
tees call at stores and threaten TO boy
colt If the merchants sold anythin;
made by that union Picket the fac
tories where members work and slut
them on the way home, blow Up thei
houses and wreck the works. and evel
murder a few members OF the boycott
TED union to teach them they mus
obey the orders OF organized capitals
It would certainly be fair for tn
company to do these things # lawful 70
he Labor trust to DO them
In such a case, under our laws N
boycOtted union could apply 10 Ou
courts and the courts would order tn
company 10 cease bOyCOtting and try
ing to ruin these union men SuppOs
thereupou the company should snee
at the court and in open defiance con
tinue the unlawful acts in a persistent
carefully laid out plan. purpOsely in
tended to ruin the union and force II
members into poverty. What a how
would so UP from the union demand
ing that the courts protect them an
punish their fa-s-breakiRg oppressors
Then they wOUlo praise the courts an
90 on earning ( living protected fror
ruin and happy in the knowledge tina
J the peoples courts could defend then
5 How could any OF Us receive protec
I ton from law-breakers unless the court
( have power 10, and do punish such meT
|. The court is placed in position whe-
? It must do one thing or the othsr-pur
ish men who persist in defyinE II
? peace orders OF go out OF service, ls
anarchy reign and the more powerfU
destroy the weaker
Peaceable citizens sustain the court
, as their defenders. whereas thieves
Iforgers, burglars, crooks OF al kind