The Brunswick times. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 188?-1900, 1897-09-01
Their Resolutions Very Strong
Against Government By
Injunction.
ATLANTA'S OSBORNE WAS THERE.
A Good Friday" for Suffering Strikers
General Convention for September
20-The Platform.

st. Louis, Aug. 31.-The deleg ates to
the convention of labor leaders were
slow in meeting this morning, and it
was nearly an hour after the time set
for meeting before the body was called
to order. The committee on resolu-
tions, which has been in session since
o'clock yesterday afternoon, at s
O'Clock this morning had not COM
pleted "plan of action.
1t was 10 o'clock when the commit
tee on resolutions fled into the hall,
and the delegates were called to order
to hear its report, The platform pre-
sented begins as follows:
"The fear of the watchful fathers of
the republic has been justified. The
judiciary has become supreme. We
witness a political phenomena abso-
lutely new in the history of the world,
republic PROSTATE at the feet of
judges appointed to administer its
laws. They acknowledge no superior
lty on earth, but their despotic deeds
recalls Millions warning to his coun-
trymen: who bids a man rule over
him above law may bid as we'll saw
age BEAST
"Under cunning forms of injunc-
tions the courts have assumed to enact
criminal laws, and after thus drawing
to themselves the power of legislation
have repealed the bill of rights and
for the violation of those court made
laws have denied to the accused the
right of trial by jury. The exercise of
the cOmmonest rights of freemen-the
right of assembly, right of free speech,
right of travelling on the public high
ways-have by Legislation under the
form of injunctIons been made
crime, and armed forces disperse as
mobs people daring in company to ex-
ercise these rights"
"Resolved, That we hereby set apart
Friday, September 8, as Good Friday
for the cause of suffering labor in
America, and contribute the earnings
of that day to the support of our
struggling brother miners, and ap-
peal to every union man and every
friend of labor throughout the coun-
try to do likewise.
"Resolved, That if the strike of the
miners is not settled by September
20, and an announcement to that eff.
feet by the president of the United
Mineworkers, general convention
be held at Chicago Monday by repre-
sentatives of all unions, sections,
branches, lodges, and kindred organ
lzations of laboring me and friends
of their cause for tha purpose of con-
sidering further measures in the in
terest of the striking miners and Ia
Dor in general.
"Resoved, That we most emphati-
oally protest against government by
Injunction, which plays havoc with
even such political liberty as working
men have saved from the steady en-
croachment of capitalism; and be it
finally
s'Resolved, That no nation in which
the people are totally disarmed can
long remain free nation; and, there
fore. we urge upon all liberty LOVING
citizens to remember and obey Arti-
Gle III of the Constitution of the
United States, which reads as follows
'The right of the people to keep and
bear arms shall not be infrlnged.'
Delegate Osborne, of Atlanta, offer
ed a resolution to the effect that 1t
was the sense of the meeting that all
unemployed men in the United States
should apply for admission to the,