Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-04
Don't Weep At
 The Ice House

Some people swell up on "emotion" brewed 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." Chats part of the tale further on.)
 Gompers ct al sheer at, spit upon and defy our courts, seeking sympathy by 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 will object, but they cannot be allowed to print matter as part of criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin 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 fact that hard earned money of men who worked, had been invested there.
 The conspirators were told by the courts to stop these vicious "trust' methods, (efforts to break the firm that won't come under trust rule), but in- stead of stopping they dare the courts to punish them and demand new laws to protect them in such de- structive and tyrannous acts as they may desire to do. The reason
 
 trying to ruin the Bucks Stove Works was because the stove company in sisted on the right to keep some old employees at work when de union" ordered them discharged and some of "de gang put ln
 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 by 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 few members of the boycotted union to teach them they must obey the orders of 'forganized CapitaI?"
 It 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 boycotred union could arnly 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 sheer
  tinue the unlawful acts in a persistent carefully laid out plan purposely in- tended to ruin the union and force it's members into poverty. What a howl would go up from the union demand ing that the courts protect them and punish their law-breaking oppressors Then they would praise the courts and go on earning a living protected from ruin and happy in the knowledge that the peoples court could defend them.
 How could any of us receive protec- tion 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 other-punish men who persist in de- flying it's peace orGers or go 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 labor unions hate them and threaten violence if their members are punished for break ing the law. They want the counts to let them go free and at the same time demand punishment for other men .-outside de union when they break the law. Notice the above reference is to violent members of labor unions. The great majority of the "unheard" union men are peace able upright citizens. The noisy, violent ones get into office and the leaders of the great Labor Trust