Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-21

IA measure to protect the people
twas butchered by cowardly Congress-
j men and saved by a brave President
IS to whom honor IS due for his pro-
lection.
$500, 10000 was To be appropriated
for use by the Dept. of Justice in
!. prosecuting offenders against the
Sherman Antitrust law, which Is in
TENDED to protect men at work. wheth-
er they be working with hands, heads,
F., or both.
Protect hem from combinations
and .conspiracies in restraint OF
trade"
That means combinations of men
/. who conspire to prevent other men
\ from earning IA living.
Two or three large oil companies
I. might Combine and conspire" to
4 freeze out a small dealer.
I He has a right To conduct a busi-
ness and earn a living for his family
and should have protection from
combinations" which ''conspire" to
ruin him.
1t also applies to combinations"
: OF worklngmen who "consplre" to
+ drive other workmen from work.
A The great Labor Trust" has been
! seized by certain men who now have
control.
They force every member to pay
fees. which aggregate several hundred
ID thousand uOnAfS ~ year.
They intend that no men who
refuse &c pay fees to them shall work.
Whenever Independent men or
/, these who form their own union seek
20 work. the big trust orders strikes
on 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:
"a on June 22nd 1910. the n. Y.
Building Trades Council (part of the
Labor TrusD declared a strike on all
trades on a 12-story building at 85th
and 9Th Ave. because of the employ
ment 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 age and kept their
Jobs. The employers afterward con-
tracted. under pressure. with the big
trust and We're told TO and did order
the Independent union TO Join the
Il Labor Trust. The men refused be-
cause they did not like the trust
methods on coercion, bullying, slug
ging and general violence.
This is only one Illustration OF
hundreds of cases where the trust
"conspires to restraint of trade"
That is. by combination they con-
epire to and dc stop work. interfere
with industry. and prevent men from
earning living unless they pay fees
10 the trust and leaders.
There IL perhaps never one single
day In year but what the Labor
Trust Is engaged somewhere in Amer
Tea in Restraining trade preventing
men from working and stopping the
flow OF Industry. No trust in this
+. country breaks the law one-tenth "a
many times or takes the bread from
mems mouths as frequently as the
Labor Trust.
81 No trust has ever restrained"
such volumes OF work or stopped the
payment OF so much money.
No trust has manned and Killed
so many men or blown up and de-
stroyed so much property and vet the
attorney-general has been held back
nam prosecutions for some uneN-
plained reason. What does a work
ingman 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
AJAX why the Atty Gen1 does not pro-
tect the people against the biggest