The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-04-06
THE KICKS AND TAFT DECISIONS.

IT You seem as If the occupation of the
railroad labor organizations had about
gone. If this decision can DO enforced
there will be fewer strikes in future.-Phil-
adelphia Inquirer.
TIE decisions are but a reafirmation of
the great legal and moral principle that
every one Is free to do as he pleases. pro-
vided shat he does not please to conspire or
work toward the injury of some one else.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
THESE decisions. if they are sustained as
correct interpretations OF the law, directly
deprive labor unions of their most effective
weapon In every case which can be brought
under the lnterstate-cOmmerce law and the
federal jurisdicti0n.-New York World.
ONE or the most significant phases Of this
Ann Arbor case Is the precedent it sets for
summary proceedings to enforce the law.
When that resort has been esta blished to
maintain the law against q labor combina-
tion it Is clearly available to enforce it
against q corporation. Pittsburg Dis
patch.
THE decisions of Judges Kicks and Taft,
SO far as the boycotting business is con-
cerned, are no more thar were to be ex-
pected. The boycott would nave been held
illegal. at any time, by any court of law
from which the cause before it required an
expression on that p0int.-Louisville Com.
merciaL
If the subordinate railway employe is q
public servant his superior must also be q
public servant. And if the law can reach
one it can reach the other. And. too. if
their relations with the public are matters
for statutory regulation their relations
with each other may elsO be adjusted by
the law and In the courts.-Chicago Record.
THAT the decision of Judge Taft will be
E---u1, ~n..;lal ca bo-a G~.h& A.k:
is right and the sober second thought of
| the country will sustain it. because the
public must see. sooner or later, that any
other course means disaster. widespread
and universal, from the effects of which
labor will be the greatest sufferer.-Chicago
Tribune.
THE strike is not possibly an enduring
force in society; 1t is a temporary device.
more or less crude. and something better
must be, and no doubt will be, developed.
| lien are at liberty to strike. but they are
also at liberty to make contracts not to
| strike. which would be binding on en-
ployer and employe alike.-Louisville
Courler-JournaL.
THERE is nothing in tho decision of tho
federal courts to compel men to work
against their wills. or in prohibition OF
strikes and labor ORGANIZATIONS =
1t will be q very easy matter for the rail-
lOnA 20 w AnOolhy OlO OthoA anu
change their organizations. The power of
the British government was unable to
break up the boycott in Ireland Pitts
burg Post.
THERE is no apparent flaw in the reason
ing by which Judge Taft has reached the
conclusion hat q preconoerted s~toppage of
business on O railway whose employees have
no grievance. brought about because the
company insists upon complying with the
requirements of its charter and toe laws OF
the land, amounts to a conspiracy. The
final decision of the matter by the United
States Supreme Court will now be awaited
with profound public interest.-Philadel-
phia Record.
AGITATORs and professional walking del
egates may object to a method of settle
ment which will take away their lazy. but
profitable occupation. Grasping and op-
p~ressive employers may object to q method
OF settlement which will bring them INTO
conrt and enforce principles of juatice in re-
lation to wageworkers. But the law has
finally adjusted and settled every previous
question OF right which has disturbed civ
ilization. This question Will be settled in
the same way.-Chicago Herald.
WITH all due respect to Judge Rloks we
do not believe tina it is the law. or that il
Will ever be SO declared by any court OF
final Jurisdiction. His own treatment OF
the subject indicates that he has doubts on
the point himself: and hough there seems
TO be- a tendency on the part of the federal
iud ges to stretch the doctrine as far as pos
sible-Judge Billings. of New Orleans. car.
ried II much further than Judge Kicks did
the tendency will be checked. we firmly
believe. as soon rs the question reaches the
conrt of laRt resort-Detrolt Free presa