The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1912-09-17

port of Perkins, Gary, Mccormick
Munsey, and other steel and harvester
trust magnates with their war bags
is the colonel's ruling that there are
good trusts as well as bad that these
are good trusts. Others, he says, may
be, and he would establish a baptismal
bureau like that bureau of corpora
lions which during his term of office
the lawbreakers who contributed to
his campaign, by which to relieve
these corporations of their burden of
corruption-and coin.
When Roosevelt declares that a mo-
nopolistic corporation can exist and
should exist, he strikes at the only pro-
lection that labor in its battle has
The protection formed by the urge of
competition, forcing the employer to
keep mis- men busy in order to secure
his share of the profits of an open
field
The minute the field is closed to com
petition among the manufacturers, the
trust, with plants in different parts of
the country, meets the demand of the
unions for recognition or better work
ing conditions with a lockout, trans
fers its orders to distant factory and
let's the wheels of one remain idle I'M
til the spirit of the strike is broken.
In Germany the steel trust Cartel,
they call it, goes so far as to refuse
orders except as subject to any delay
caused by strike.
The success of the trust in fighting
organized labor is evident. The steel
trust has done it, importing Lithan-
ians, Poles, and Slovaks to do its work
in competition with Americans. 1t is
absolutely opposed to unions. The
the unions; the harvester trusts, the
smelter trust, the tobacco trust, the
sugar trust. all by the mere fact of
their control of the business in their
it, The wool trust did it until the
un-American syndicalistic union eff
fected partial charge.
The steel trust employs men at a
wage which, if they work every day
in the year will not support a small
family. The harvester trust works
women II hours, day and night shifts,
Juggling great bundles of fibre, bigger
and heavier than themselves, across
the floors OF their lint-filled twine-fac-
tories-a very forcing ground of dis
ease and death.
Make them good" according to the
colonels program-all the rest as
good as the steel and harvester trusts,
and what has labor got?
Coal mining is an instance. In Hi
nois and Indiana the coal mines are
owned by Independent operators, they
are bad enough, heaven knows, but
here is their record of deaths:
Illinois: Men employed, 72,645; men
killed 143; killed per thousand work
ers, 1877; coal mined per man killed
321 900 tons.
Indiana: Men employed 21.S7S; kill |
ed 81; killed per 1000 employed 2.33; |
coal mined per man killed S61 900
Contrast this with Colorado: Men |
employed 1886; killed 323 killed per
1000 employed 20.36; coal mined per
man killed $4,000 tons.
In Indiana and Illinois the owners
are Independent, the men are unioniz-
ed. In Colorado the mines are opera
ted by the trust owned Colorado Fuel |
&c Iron company. 1t will not permit |
unions.
There, in brief, is what labor can
expect to get after Mr. Roosevelt with |
his federal incorporation law has made
the rest of the trusts as good rs the
steel and harvester trusts.
That's what the bull moose has for
labor