New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-18

fight for industrial liberty General Otis
| said.
The contest which | and my associates
are engaged in is no longer contest
between The Los Angeles Times and
trade unionism. That contest closed wears
ago with the defeat Of the programmed
union that tried 10 crush us and 10 crush
out our manhood and our INDEPENDENCE
When that organization failed 10 crush us
II Joined forces with the American Fedora
ton Of Labor and continued the battle
with Gompers and since then. for wears
the American Federation Of Labor has di-
rected the battle.
Finally desperate effort to silence The
Times and extinguish its editors was made
through dynamite, ard resulted in the de-
s'ruction OF the Times Building and the
Death of twenty OF it's employees But the
battle did not end there. and 1t has not
ended.
Fight fer Industrial Freedom.
say this that YOU may understand this
disaster and the loss Of our loyal men.
We are not fighting our individual battles.
tut we are lighting for industrial freedom
We are lighting for freedom under the Law
ana the constitutional guarantees We do
Tot claim 10 be better fighters than others.
hut We say that all those who think that
industrial, despotism is renscing the Re
public must stand up and hCht You have
the power. If YOU will exercise H. 10 sup
press this insurrection against industrial
freedom
You are men who understand that or
ganized labor cannot possess single right
not possessed by individuals Many persons
think that organized labor possesses SUI
perior rights because il IS organized This
is menace 10 our liberty The law does
not pick out segments OF citizens The
red headed men can't say they have any
more rights than black headed men II
that is SO We will organize a red headed
mems convention.
The reason for your existence is the fact
that YOU recognized that the Republic is
menaced by the aegressions Of organized
la Dor. You take counsel together because
you believe that the country is menaced II
Is well that you organize and say to the
enemy. Advance further and We Will fight
4 stand with you for our personal lib
erty religious and individual liberty ike
wise. All phases OF liberty are renaced
unless we stand fast for those forms OF
liberty which the Constitution guarantees
and the Fathers contemplated when they
| formed our system Of government We are
| for the Constitution Of the Fathers and
for the laws framed by Congress under our
/ system OF government We are for the
law a. interpreted by the Supreme Court
even though the Interpretation does not
please us The loyal citizen obeys the law
and accepts the interpretat ton OF the Su-
preme Court, but he does not accept the
law as interpreted by Gompers and Mitch
ell and Dehs and Mcnamara. II you please
The folly and madness OF unrsstrained
unionism is what we oppose but We DO not
oppose unionism when restrained by law
40 man shall say that We are unreasonable
or illiberal. but We do say that organized
labor shall obey the law. We stand for
the doctrine that every citizen has the
lawful right to pursue unhampered and
undisturbed any occupation Of his choice
and 10 be protected in that right by the
whole power OF the nation. by the army
and navy. If need be"
Ludwig Nissen. who vas the toastmas-
ter. said in his opening speech that the
association was in absolute accord with
President Taft in the stand he had taken
for a permanent tariff commission.
Some Of US. but not all. are in accord
with him or MS proposal for reciprocity
with Canada Mr. Nissen continued. but
We are all with him IN his stand that any
retarding of the governmental business
by government employees is mutinv and
should be punished as SUCH. We are in
accord with him on the treaty Of arbitra-
ton with Great Britain. and believe that
he should Join with Great Britain Ger
MANY"