The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1910-09-01
HOOdWinkin&
Clergymen

each morning! It's meat and bread
to their souls.
Then think of the lordly power, and
don't forget the steady flow OF money
squeezed from the WOrkmans nara
earned pay enevelope.
But when these leaders cite up any
industry no man can hold JoD VINO
refuses to pay fines even on trumpet
up charges, and steadily pay tees
whatever they are.
The workman is absolutely at the
mercy of this band of men who nave
secured and hold control.
Many and many an honest workman
has raised his voice and appealed to
his fellows to rise and throw Off the
yoke of Gompers, ct al. But, as one
writes, cat every convention OF the
American Federation of Labor, strong
opposition comes up but at the crit
ical moment the impassioned orator
appears and most dramatically puts
the spot light on the leader and covers
him with a mawkish film OF martyr
dom and the emotional delegates yell
in delight, forgetting the instructions
of the peaceful workingmen at home
who desire to free themselves from
the odium of membership under the
great advocates of strike, boycott, vio-
lence and hate"
So we see the unequalled insolence
with which these trust leaders pro-
pose to induce" ministers to pull
their chestnuts from the fire by
preaching modern aggressive and vio-
lent labor trust methods.
There Is a better way to secure JUS
tice for workers. az will appear furth'
err along.
Just a little diversion here.
am charged with having first
brought to the attention of the public
some years ago, the name Labor
Trust"
A trust is a combination of men or
organizations for the purpose OF sell
ing their product at profit and re
stricting production to effect it.
We will say large Oil Company
gathers in smaller ones and thus con
trolls production.
:. The Labor Trust gathers in loca
trade organizations and thus has pow
err to say how much work each mar
shall do.
The Oil Company then fixes prices
The Labor Trust does likewise.
The Oil Company may use meth
DDS" to force an unwilling dealer tt
join.
The Labor Trust men go furthe
and slug the Independent man if h.
tries to sell his labor without payin
fees and "obeying orders" They ar
both exactly alike in purpose, which
in both cases is entirely selfish t
gain power and money for the leaders
Certain Labor Trust members d
not hesitate to use violence, dyn;
hitting of property, burning homes
independent men and even murder
force obedience.
The Oil Company doesn't go so ia
Both are extremely dangerous
the welfare of people and commun
ties, for power placed in the hand
of few men either representing Ca
, ital or Labor is almost always abuse
anu the public suffers.
Remember, reader, that your safet
lies in strenuous opposition to a
trusts which try to ride over and di
, tate to the people.
Only by opposing their growth ca
you RETAIN your personal liberty.
Now to ministers.
1uC dNSluSS SoA6A CSolAOl 10 Ahe'>
, up of about 80 per cent. of free CT
zens and much less than 10 per Ger
of members of the Labor Trust.
The free citizen wants to hear wor'
= defending the rights and independent
of the common man, free from the 6
bitrary dictates of any self-seekil
, organization either OF Capital or L
/. Dor.
5 The merchant, lawyer, school teac
e err, doctor, clerk, farmer and wol
J. man rebels against any forcible ste
n ping of trains, boats, street cal
s or factories, for the prosperity of t
|. community is entirely dependent
steady continuance of these things.
|. Men don't like strikes. boycotts,
, jured workmen or burned cars a
s factories.
J. A famous divine says: These m
!. may hate capitalists but their hate
% other laboring men burns like flan
O eats like nitric acid. is malignant
4 yond all description"
Then we remember cases Of a.
IS throwing, eyes gouged out. childr
= pursued, women stripped. homes