The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-09-03
THE JUDICIARY
Denounced at the ST. Louis Labor
leaders Convention.
special Miners Day to lie Set Apart shortly
After Labor Day workingmen Asked
TO Contribute the Earnings of That
Day Ia support of strikers.

ST. LorIs, Sept. Lit was 10 o'clock
Tuesday when the committee on reso-
lutions Of the labor leaders conference
fled into the hall and the delegates
were called TO order TO hear its report
The platform as presented reads as fol.
lows:
The fear Of INC watehfui fathers Of nc tcpub.
lie has ir-cn justified the Judiciary mas be-
come supreme We witness a political phe-
nomiB0n absolutely new IN the history Of the
world; a republic prostTate at the feet Of Judges
appointed 70 administer It's laws They ac-
knowledge no superior On earth and their des-
potic deeds recall Mffon's warning 10 MS
eountryIneH. Who bids man rule over him
above law. may bid as well savage beast
Under the cunning form 81 innnctiOns
courts have assumed 70 enact criminal laws
and after thus drawing % themselves the pow
er Of legislation have repealed the biltof rights
ard f0f violation Of those court made laws
have denied the accused the right Of trial by
jury
The exercise Of the cOmmOnest nphts Of free
mon the right ~ assembly the right of free
speech. The right of travelling the public high
ways. have by Legislation under the form ci
inIuhctions been mnde crime and armed
pany. 70 exercise these rights At its last term
tho supreme court Of the United States decid-
I'D that the Thirteenth aincpdTnent forbid
ding involuntary servitude H. not violated by
arresting a seaman imprisoning him until his
vessel Is ready 70 leave port and then forcibly
putting him on beard To serve out the term OF
his contract decision under which the old
fugitive slave laws may yet he revived and
striking iaborors. be scized and returned 70 the
service Of their masters
Having drawn TO themselves all the powers
Of tho federal government under congress and
the president may act only By Judicial permls-
sion. the federal Judges have begun the subiu.
cation Of sovereign states. 80 that. unless q
check IS soon put upon the progress Of nsurpa.
tion. in q short timn no government hnt abso-
lute despotism OF federal Judges will exist any.
where over any portion Of the United States
The pending strike of coal miners. starved q
feeblencss by their srant wages by arduous
and dangerous toll the pending strike fol
the right 10 be fed enongh To mako labor pos
sibie. has hccn prolific Of Judicial usurpation
showing the willingness Of judicial despots tC
resort to the most shameless sieHance Of de.
ecncy. As well rs Of law and humanity IN Orslel
70 enable heariless ayarico 10 drive its hungry
serfs back 10 tho mines To faint anddic at theil
drudFory and there remains not one nIaran-
which an injunction has not somewhere made
crime ~ these subvcrsinns of constitutions
liberty, We have met to counsel together anC
have come 70 tho following conclusions shat
Whereas the present strike of The coal min
erS has again demonstrated thn fact that oui
so-callcd liberty IS mol frcsiotn hut Is a SIN.
pendnus sham, under Witch millions are do
generating while hmdicds ul thousands men
women and chiiiren-nrc starving in howell,
and on the public highways.
Whereas this condition has become pcrma
mont for large and ever increasing number o
our population. long as we permit a com
paratively small class nf leEali1cd cxploitcri
10 monspolize the means OF production and dis
tribution for their private baneat u fact oh
viOus in the case of miners
Whereas. Appeals In congress and 10 tn
courts for relief arc irhtlcss since the legis
lative as we'll as the executives Judicial pow
crs are under the control of the capitalist
class, so that II has como to pass in this FIRE
country that. while cattle and swine have
right 70 the public highways, Americans. 50
called free men. have not:
Whereas. our capitalistic class. as is agai
shown Ia the present strike. Il armed and ha
not only policemen. marshals. sherins and dep
uttes but also a regular army and militia I
order 10 enforce government by injunction
suppressing lawful nssemblage free speec
and the righr TO the public highway. while q
the other hand. the laboring mon Of the coun
/ try are unarmcd and defenSeless. contrary .
the words and spirit Of the constitution q IA
| United States; therefore be It
Resolved No. THAT we hereby set apaT
Friday, the SRI day Of September. 1907. as
Good Friday for the cause Of suffering labo
in America and contribute the earnings Of tina
day 70 the support Of our struggling brother,
the miners. and appeal to every union man an
every friend Of labor throughout the country Z
do likewise
Resolved, 2--If the strike OF the miners Is nc
settled by the alth day OF September. 1907. an
~ 'uncement made to that effect by the pres
u he United mine workers. generi
n held at Chicago on Monday Ser
the representatives OF a
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as NOR and friends
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