The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-07-19

The authorities forget there are
about thirty million workers in this
country and only about 100000 mem
bers of the Labor rust and that most
of them ire coered into membership
How can the authorities answer to
the vast army o. % million free work
ers, farmers and householders whose
affairs are from time to time interfere
ed with and who have to bear the
loss of stopped industries brought
about by the leaders of the Labor
Trust in their manipulation of men
seeking to drive them into fee-paying
slavery?
The 2S,OOo,o0o workers, not mem
bers Of the trust object to being driv-
en- from work or having r. r. trains
stopped with all the far-reaching
losses, or the street cars stopped and
men and women prevented from get
ting to and from work, or factories
struck and perhaps destroyed, the
weekly pay roll stopped and the sus-
tenance of at least part and perhaps
all of community withdrawn.
The great Philadelphia street car
strike was forced by the big abor
Trust, not on account of wages and
hours but to throw out about 1000 men
who had their own union, peaceable
one.
These men did not want to pay fees
! to the trust leaders and be subject
to their whims so they formed their
OWE union for self protection. There
upon the big trust called strike,
| blew up anG burned cars, attacked
| and slaughtered men, kept people
| from getting to and from work, forced
their other slaves to quit work and
cost the people of Phil. several million
dollars and untold suffering and incon-
venience solely for the purpose of
Showing" them the power of the
4 Labor Trust TO force people to mind
and force these independent men to
join the trust, "obey" and pay fees to
the leaders.
That is serious state of affairs in
| this free country and is enough to
| awaken every american to the necessi-
| ty of curbing such men in their insane
race for notoriety power and fee
gathering.
Citizens want industry. commerce
and wages to continue without inter
/ ference from any set of men either
employers or employees who seek sell
fish gain to themselves alone, without
regard to how much all the people out
! side the trust may be Inconvenience
and damaged
The trust leaders, to make stronger
their control CT members, fight vail
1 aLtly to be allowed to boycott and
conspire to ruin all free citizens either
| employers or workmen who do not
] pay fees to the trust leaders.
Therefore when this $200,000.00 ap
preparation bill came up they deluged
1 Congress with demands to exempt
combinations of labor from prosecu
ton if they broke the law and, start
j ling as 1t may seem, over hundred
i congressman voted to SO exempt them
4 In other words voted to permit one
/ set of men to break the law and domi
nate the great majority of citizens
while the majority must keep the Law
and submit to the damage losses, inso
lence and idleness put upon them ,.
the comparative small band of trus
members.
why were these Congressman COW
ards?' you ask. Because the trus
managers sent word to their loca
managers in all parts of the countr.
instructing them to fire letters AM
kilograms to Congrcl smen wheneve
a bill to give the trust more powe
is introduced.
The great mass of citizens who arr
to be tyrannized over have no organ
ization to warn them to notify Con
i gressmen of their wishes and SO thu
heavy fire comes from but one SID
(the Labor Trust side) and thus I'm