The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-22

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And the Labor Trust
President Kirby Of the National Manufacturers
association will have tough time OF il making the
people OF this country believe that labor unions
responsible in any degree for the increased cost Of
living
If it were not for the protection given to all labor
by labor unions, conditions would be than
they are, and the working classes would be much
nearer abject and helpless slavery
In every branch Of industry the organization of
employers has progressed more rapidly than the
organization Of employees. And the stronger the
organizations OF employers grew the flercer their
fight TO destroy organizations Of workingmen.
THE sO-called labor trust Is myth. The capital
istic trust l. something real The latter Is not only
a menace 10 all labor but 20 the small dealer and
the average consumer. And there the average con-
sumner and small dealer, are Just beginning 20 find
out that they were greatly mistaken when they got
the idea into their heads that they had interest
In Iabor's fight for better conditions.
IL Kirby could prove that general increase in
wages preceded the increase in the cost Of living.
and that the latter corresponded with the former
he might have premise which to base his
conclusions
But everybody knows that there was no relation
between the two. The increase in the cost of living
has been startling, and whatever increase there has
been in wages so insignificant that it isn't worth
mentioning
THERE Is NO WATER N LABOR WHILE
THE STOCK OF CORPORATIONS EMPLOYING
LABOR Is LOADED TO THE GUARDS WITH
TT. And the price of nearly everything the people
consume has been advanced to pay dividends on the
watered stock Of trusts
Hundreds upon hundreds of thousands Of free
American citizens have been voting for protective
tariff for years because they had been led believe
that they protecting infant American indus
tries and free and independent American working
men.
But they are now waking up. They begin to see
that the bigger the infant becomes the protec-
ton he demands and gets, and that this protection
enables the infant TO soak the American public for
higher prices and to organize into trusts that would
destroy labor organizations and actually reduce all
wages and salaries by increasing the prices of all
things that wages and salaries will buy.
The average is beginning to find out that he
is in the same boat with the member Of labor
ion. He begins to see that organized capital, by
getting control Of the BANS trust companies and
insurance companies using the savings of the peo
pie with which to control OF all industry and
all means of transportation.
1t is the savings of the millions who toll that is
used by the MOrgans to buy up the railroads and
food trusts. And when they control these they die
tate the price the producer will get for his produce
fix the freight rate, and then fix the price the
sumner has to pay, 80 as to pay dividends on water
ed stock.
Organized labor doesn't fix the price Standard
Oil will pay for crude petroleum, the freight rate on
oil or the retail price of kerosene, naptha gasoline
and the other numerous by products
Labor doesn't fix the price the beef trust will pay
the cattle raiser western ranches for cattle the
hoof, the freight rates, or what YOU pay the
butcher for the meat that goes your table
Labor doesn't control cold storage, the price the
food trusts pay the farmer for butter and eggs or
the price the housewife pays to the grocer.
1t isn't labor trust that pays the farmer what it
pleases for what he has to sell and then fixes the
price the consumer has TO pay.
No labor trust fixes the price of sugar, WOOL cot
ton, hides shoes, clothing gas, electricity electric
and steam transportation, grain, flour and all the
other things that enter into the cost of living.
YOU help pay dividends watered stock every
time you ride a steam electric railroad or burn
gas or electricity, or buy coal, ice, meat flour,
sugar, shoes, clothing, OIL rubber, tobacco and most
of the necessaries of life that consume wages.
IS THERE ANY WATERED STOCK OR
BONDS IN ANY LABOR TRUSTS?
Do YOU know of single millionaire who made
his millions a stakeholder in a labor trust?
Kirby is talking through his hat. He represents
the class that would enslaye all labor to enrich its
own members. And that class can't enslave labor
puith0ut eugauiu0 all MAJ WIN for