The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-05-29
THE DEBS DECISION
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE
AMALGAMATED ASSOCIATION.
Action of the Court Regarded as the
Beginning of Enslavemet of the
Masses-Deks in Chicago.

CLEVELAND, o., May 2S.-The following
resolutions were adopted by the convention
of the Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers to-day:
Whereas, We have. of recent years, seen
the courts issuing inJunctionS against men
engaged in peaceable strikes and restraining
them from being present in the vicinity of
the place to which the controversy relates,
and that these injunctions have neen issued
without even the allegation of the least
unlawfulness having occurred. those seek
ing these injunctions having secured them
by expressing fears that violations of the
Whereas, The ease with which injunc-
tons have been secured has brought that
agency into common use by employers of
labor whose employees make united action
TO better their condition. and.
Whereas, The courts in each succeeding
Injunction issued by. them have increased
the scope and severity of the restrictions
therein contained until 1T would seem that
the pleasures of the courts are the extent
Whereas. The Supreme Court of the
United States has Just handed down its
opinion in the case OF Eugene v. Debs, the
language of which opinion states in terms
that cannot be misunderstood the Supreme
Courts use of this weapon against labor or
CARNATIONS in strikes and thus is the issu-
the common peoples rights further en-
dangered: therefore, be 1t
Resolved, That we, in convention assem-
bled, do view with alarm the unnecessary
and unjustifiable curtailment of our liber-
ties that Is being done by lnJunctl0n, We
regard it as the means through which it is
sought to stealthily take away from the
PEOPLE, by piecemeal, rights that a liberty
loving people would never permit direct
legislation to interfere with, thus making
it The more repugnant because of its pre-
tended innocence.
Resolved, That we regret this latest
and most far-reaching decision on injunc-
tons and that we believe that the time
has come when the united forces of labor
should lend all their energy to the cor
rection Of this civilian evil that, If per-
as seems probable, must Inevitably bring
about the enslavement of the masses.
Resolved. That our sympathy goes out
to Eugene V. Debs and we regard the
denial Of his petition by the Supreme Court
as a denial of simple justice"
Debs Ready to Return to Prison.
CHICAGO, May 2S.-Eugene V. Debs,
president of the American Railway Union,
called on United States Marshal Arnold
to-day and announced to that officer thai
in view of the decision of the United States
Supreme Court denying him a writ of
habeas corpus. he was ready TO resume the
serving out OF his sentence in Jail at
Wheaton. The marshal told him that he
had not received the mandate of the court
for his reincarceration, and did not expect
ii inside of a week. Mr.. Debs contemplates
a trip through North Dakota, and left with
the marshal a schedule OF his itinerary in
order that he might be notified whenever
wanted.
II have written to all Of the officers out
purpose % come in a body and surrender
ourselves and go back TO our pleasant quar-
tiers at Woodstock JAIL