East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-31
WELCOME CLAYTON ACT
THAT PROTECTS UNIONS
roo LATE, HOWEVER. TO
SAVE CONNECTICUT VIC
TINS OF SHERMAN Law
LABOR WRITER ORA w S
PATHETIC PICTURE OF OLD
FOLKS AND CHILDREN
TORN FROM HOMES THAT
COST LIFE SAVINGS
By GEORGE P. WEST

sHow about the DanhuFy HatteFs' easel"
ne query l. shouted at Candidate Hughes
a even campaign meeting where working
hen and women are gathered. i h shouted
At the women Of the millionaire Hughes
campaign special II s heard wherever the
issues are discussed.
Well. how about the DAnbury Hatters'
e. - What Il the easel What lies back
Of these shouted queries that Mr.. Hughes
t',ok 90 long to answerf
Up In Danbury, Connecticut. where 5000
skilled workmen make hats for all the world,
they need no answeT from Mr.. Hughes. The
answer e there before them In living form
more than one hundred families, 300 men
Womtn and children, oppressed BY the knowl'
edge that even night may be the last under
the roofs Of the little homes representing
the fruits Of twenty. thirty, or forty years
Of toll thrift and sacrifice
This 10 to tell Others little OF what Dan
bury already knows. II is story Of the
law and Of austere judges. on the one hand
against men and women and children on the
other-the story Of . Law that, until Presi.
dent Wilson signed the Clayton act. had
ruined working men. while Il sent Standard
Or and Tobacco stocks soaring.
A stsTy ss Tragedy
ri stoTy full Of tragedy the tragedy
Of Cd humble, simple folk wbose declining
aAys are OvsTshadowed BY fear and anxiety
Il b the stoFy. too. Of men and wonsn who
- not whine, Who have been game 70 the
core, Who believe firmly today. as they did
at The beginning, that their cause is the
cause Of right and that judTe are not
infsnFble.
u b not one story. but = hundred. There
b the ease Of the widow with sFven chill
hpen, her husband dead and savings gone,
wbo scrubbed hoorp to provide for her fam
ly. There b the sto0 Of Benedict, the
A. IA md, AN HRRaNNN.
AonaFy descent, driven 10 his eFaVs ~
,AxietS and bewildered Questioning over the
leeinion that had turned him, God-feArnK,
hrrty, Old msn. into . law-breakeT. pup
ned hy deputy sheTifIs and beekled By wTtts
attachment
There b Mlcheel Hurd. who has hved ail
ns hfty-si1 yean 10 the house on Shelter
Snek avrnua now nhout 10 be taken IRON
i!eL An1 there b MS. Hurd. 9 sWest. faced.
,ray-haIred woman Who came 70 shs house
a 4 bYida, and whose ehiidTea we're born
md grew up within Ia vaIh
Tkiyty.two Of the thiF4y-fouE hat mano'
iactuFcTs Of Daahsvy emit 10y only union men.
rhs hreeSt and TsGst successful Of them
ba testified that tbey would not employ
sny others n they had the choice. Wages
OOTN high WoYt was STEADY, and The num-
tlesa worker was pFoaeeted aEainst shs IN
fair or Bullying foreman b. the agreensu@
70 wbieb owner and workman suhseraooa-
LSsws Ene@y ts UnlsH
Only D. z. Loewe and one or two otheFs
among the hat makers denied their men the
yIHht 70 organize and to send their agents
- ''taIk Il over with the boss@ Uhen things
Went wrong Mr.. LOewe was one Of the old
seboeI" employer. With otheFs, he not only
Eefusef 10 vork With his men ihrourh trade
agyeSmeuta, bu be spread the gospel Of op-
position and discord among others-
on in New York, the national oiieeTv Of
the BattsFs' Union. after trying In vatn TO
sxt4Dd the organizations benefits to the
Leews employees. decided on the only course
oDpn 70 the union The lmmsnorisl security
n ths hatter' orTanisstien ih Dsn6ury.
1atina hack without an interruption 70 the
woTkmepa guilds Of Revolutionary ttBes,
was threstened. The national officers began
70 eiFealaEtss their fellow unionssts throuEh-
Sut the country. calling attention to The fail:
urp a the L0ewe concern 70 make use OF
~ uRloO label, and asking union memheFs
not 70 buy LoeWs hats or pstronias stores
thst aeted - LOa~s agents
Entered ss4e.Sss suil
Urged b. . national association Of employ.
IN bitterly OppOsed 70 collective bargaining,
H. LSowe Ssesn suit in Ire Federsl Cont
u Connecticut for $4,000 damages. on ths
theoTy that the Hattep Union had violated
ire Sherman Get. This was the Law dra fled
and psssed BY Congress, 10 strike At great
combinations like STANDARD OI that were
draining the peoples pocket books and crush.
ing competition through every means known
70 anseFupulous, ruthless buccaneers Of com
meTee.
The Loews attorneys vent into court on
the claim that the union hstters. 10 refusing
10 patFoniEe Loewe and bis SCENTS, had
entered into . conspiracy In restraint OF
trsds" They charged that the Lesws busi.
neas had been damaged 10 the extent Of
$50, ,see They demanded three times this
sum ~ punishment Of vengeance, and they
got H. With interest and laWyeTs' fees the
Judgment stands today al f5es, zoe.
Thus was raised the first big issue of this
famous cAse
Have working men the right to urge their
brother wOTkingmen and their friends not
to pstroniae 4 manufacturer whose conduct,
in their judgment and belief is hostile and
disastrous TO their Interests and rights
Issue No. raises an even more remark.
able question. For Mr., Loewe was not con.
tent 10 wipe out the treasury Of the Hat.
teFu Union. with ita limited funds set aside
for pensions and sick benefits. Hc and his
nllies were determined TO terrify and dis.
SsuraKe even union man. not only in Dan