The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-01-21

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 a
criminal conspiracy to injure and ruin
other citizens.
Gompers and his trust associates
started out to ruin the Bucks Stove
Co., drive its 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
instead Of stopping they dare" the
courts to punish them and demand
new laws to protect them in such de-
structive and tyrannic cali acts as they
may desire to do. = q * The reason
Gompers and his band persisted in try-
Ing to ruin the Bucks Stove Works
was because the. stove company insist
ed on the right to keep some Old en-
ployees at work when ''de union 3 or
dered them charged and some of
de gang put on.
Now let us reverse the conditions
land haveSa look. III s3}
Suppose the company had ordered
the union to dismiss certain men from
their union, and, the demand being re
fused, should institute d boycott
against that union, publish It's name
in an unfair list, INSTRUCT other man.
sufacturers all over the United States
I not to buy the la Dor of that union,
have committees call at stores and
threaten to boycott If the merchants
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 q few mem
beers Of the boycotted union to teach
them they must obey the orders Of
ganized Capital e
It would certainly be fair for the
company to do these things II lawful
for the Labor Truststo do them.
z8a In such case, under our laws the
cotted union could apply to our
courts and the courts would order
the company, to cease boyc citing and
trying to ruin these uni lon men. Sup
pose therelpon the OF pany should
ssneer at the court and In open defance
continue the urllaW ful acts in a per-
.sistent, carefully laid out plan, pur-
p0sely intended to ruin the union
and force Its members into poverty
& What q howl would go up from the
union demand ding that the courts pro-
@tect them and punish their break
ing espresso Then they would
praise the courts and go on earning q
living protected from ruin and happy
in the knowledge that the peoples
courts could defend them. s
s How could any Of JUS receive prOtec-
ten from laW-brea kers unless the courts
have power 70. and do punish such
men
81 The court IS placed imposition where
it must do on thing Or the r--s
punish men who persist iii defying sits
peace orders OF do out Of service, !et
a1archy reign and 4 he r,ofe powerful
destroy the Neak er.
Peaceful citizens sustain the courts
as Their defende whereas thieves,
Sforgers, BURG lars, crook ks Of an: kinds.
and violent neInb ersN Of Ia Dor unions
hate them and tthreat en- Violence IL
sfheir members are pun led for break
Ing the law They want The cour Stp
let them 90 tree and al tie same time,
demand pnnishne llt for pther1nenss'o out
side de- unio IL hey lbrea the
law. the ab oYesref
sence to .ssYiple ID eln hers ofs lahor
Unions The great ma nifty off tlhe
unheari 4 union men are peaeeable,