The magic hat. Illustration shows, at center, Samuel Gompers standing on a platform, pointing to a sign with a whip labeled Expulsion, the sign states To Organized Labor defend you persecuted brethren. Put up, or lose you union card, he is holding a hat into which union members, entering from the left, are depositing money; to the right, behind Gompers, the money, in the form of Dynamite drops through a hole in the top of the hat to the platform where union thugs grab it, beyond them are explosions labeled Organized Murder. Date 1912 February 7. The magic hat. Illustration shows, at center, Samuel Gompers standing on a platform, pointing to a sign with a whip labeled Expulsion, the sign states To Organized Labor defend you persecuted brethren. Put up, or lose you union card, he is holding a hat into which union members, entering from the left, are depositing money; to the right, behind Gompers, the money, in the form of Dynamite drops through a hole in the top of the hat to the platform where union thugs grab it, beyond them are explosions labeled Organized Murder. Date 1912 February 7.