Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-04
Don't Weep At
The Ice House

some people swell up on emotion
oreWed from absolute untruth.
It's an old trick of the leaders of the
Labor Trust to twist facts and make
the Sympathetic ones" weep at the
ice house" (That's part of the tale
further on.)
Gompers ct al. sheer at. spit upon
and defy our courts, seeking sympath,
by falsely telling the people the courts
were trying 10 deprive them of free
speech and free press.
Men can speak freely and print opin-
IONS freely in this country and no court
will object. but they can not be allowed
10 print matter as part of a cririna
conspiracy 10 injure and ruin other cit
liens.
Gompers and his trust associates
started out TO ruin the Bucks Stove Co.
drive its hundreds of workmen out o.
work and destroy the value of tfs
plant without regard to the fact tina,
hard earned money of men who worked
had been invested there.
The conspirators were told by the
courts 10 stop these vicious trust
methods, efforts TO break the firm tina,
won't come under trust rule), but in
isiead of stopping they dare" the courts
to punish them and demand new laws
10 protect them in such destructive
and tyrannous acts as they may desire
20 do. The reason Gompers and
his band persisted in trying to ruin the
Bucks Stove Works was because the
stove company insisted on the RICH;
to keep some old employees at work
when de union" ordered them dis
charged 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 boycott
against that union, publish its name
in an unfair list instruct other man
ufacturers all over the United States
not TO buy the labor of that union
have committees call at stores and
threaten to boycott if the merchants
sold anything made by thar 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 few member:
of the boycotted union to teach then
they must obey the orders of organ.
lied Capital?"
It would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things If Lawful
for the Labor Trust to do them.
In such 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. Suppose
thereupon the company should sneer a
the court and in open defiance continue
the unlawful acts in persistent, care
fully laid out plan, purposely intended
to ruin the union and force its men,
bers into poverty. What howl would
go up from the union demanding tina:
the courts protect them and punish
their law-breaking oppressors. Their
they would praise the couTtS and &c
on earning living protected from ruin
and happy in the knowledge that the
peoples courts could defend them.
How could any of us receive protec-
ton from breakers unless the
courts have power to, and do punish
such men.
The court is placed in position where
~ Hoos w ohS tTIn8 OF TIC OtHef-
punish men who persist in defyins it,
peace orders or go out of service, IL,
anarchy reign and the moro powerful
destroy the weaker.
Peaceable citizens sustain the court.
as their defenders. whereas thieves
| forgers, burglars, crooks Of all kinds
and violent members Of labor unions
hate them and threaten violence Il
their members are punished for break
ing the law. They want the courts t.
let them go free and at the Same time
demand punishment for other mer
Outside de union" when they break
the law. Notice the above refer.
ence Is to violent" members OF labo,
unions. The great majority Of the aun.
heard" union men are peaceable, up.
right citizens. The noisy, violent one.
get into Office and the leaders Of the
great Labor Trust know how to mas,
this kind q men. lin labor conventions