The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-01
Mr.. DEBS MORE RADICAL.
Is READY TO INCITE THE POPU-
LACE. BUT NOT JUST
YET.
ALL DECISIVE ACTION PUT OVER.
Another Convention Called for Sept.
% at Chicago the Most Inn
portant Outcome.


days, finished it's work this evening.
The meeting was productive of several
sensational speeches and many reso-
lutions, yet no decisive action was TAX
en- in the principal matter for which
the gathering was summoned-the
adjustment of government by inJunc-
ton. The convention, which has teen
announced as the last one Of IT'S kind
to be held, while adjournlng sine die,
has merely postponed action on the
matters before it for three weeks, as
call for a similar conference to be
held in Chicago on Monday, Sept. 81,
was issued. True il is, the convention
ordered its chairman, Mr.. Pomeroy, of
the international Typographical union,
to request President Mckinley, in the
name Of the convention, to call a spe-
cial session Of congress for the purpose
of defining the authority of judges in
the matter of injunctions," but, as the
president will hardly receive the COM
munication in time to convene congress
in three weeks, even should he con-
slider the matter favorably, the Chicago
gathering may take action which
would render today's move void, or
Mr.. Debs and Social Democracy DOM
mated the convention and the famous
labor leader carried the gathering off
its feet this afternoon in one of his
characteristic speeches. A resolution
introduced by Mr.. Mahon. of Detroit,
calling upon all miners now at work
to desert their posts, terming them
enemies of human liberty, so long as
they remained on duty, was adopted
a ho
pared asking the convention to call for
100 volunteers to go into the town of
Pocahontas, Va, on the 18th of Sep
TENDER and there hold a public meeting
In defiance of the mayor of that city
who had set himself up in opposition
to the God-given and constitutional
right of free speech" But at the last
moment concluded not to present it.
The resolution will probably come to
the front at the Chicago convention.
Mr.. Ratchford, who was specially
pleased with the conventions instruc-
tons regarding the request for the con-
Venlng Of congress, hurried away to-
night to Columbus, where he will at
tend a conference of mine workers and
operators.
AS soon as the convention met this
morning the report of the resolutions
committee was presented as follows:
The fear of the more watchfuI fathers of the
republic has been justified. The judiciary
has become supreme. We witness, political
phenomenon, absolutely new in the history of
the world; republic PROSTATE at the feet eff
judges appointed to administer its laws They
acknowledge no superior on earth and their
despotic deeds recall Millions warning To
his countrymen: Who bids a man rule over
him above law, may bid well savage
beast"
Under the cunning form of injunctions
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 violations of these court-made
laws have denied the accused the right of
trial by jury.
The exercise of the commonest rights of
freemen-the right of assembly, the right of
free speech, the right of travelling the public
highways, have by legislation, under the form
OF inJuncuons been made crime and armed
forces dispeTse as nobs people daring in COM
pany TO exercise these rights. At its last
term the supreme court of the United States
decided that the thirteenth amendment for
bidding involuntary servitude, is not VIC
lated by arresting a seaman, imprisoning
him until his vessel is ready to leave port
and then forcibIy putting him on board to
serve out the term Of his contract" de-
cision under which the old fugitive slave laws
may yet be revived and striking laborers be
seized and returned TO the service of their
masters.
Having drawn to themselves all the powers
OF the federal government until congress and
presidents may act only by Judicial pernlis-
sion, the federal judges have begun the sub
jugation OF the sovereign states. so that unless
check is soon put upon the progress of
usurpation, in short time no government
but the absolute despotism of federal judges
will exist anywhere over any portion Of Amer
lean soil. The pending strike of coal miners
starved to enfeebleness by their scant wages,
by arduous and dangerous toll, the pending
strike for the right 10 be fed enough TO make
labor possible has been prolific of judicial
usurpation, showing the willingness of judi
cal despots 10 resort to the most shameless
defiance of decency. as well as of law and hu
manity, IN order TO enable heartless avarice
TO drive its hungry serfs back to the mines TO
faint and die at their drudgery, and there re-
mains today not one guaranteed right of
American citizens, the exercise Of which an
injunction has not somewhere made crime
started by these subversions of constitutional
liberty We have met TO counsel together and
have come TO the following conclusions viz:
Whereas, The present strike of the coal
miners has again demonstrated the fact that
our so-called liberty is not freedom. but is a
stupendous sham. under which millions are
degenerating, while hundreds Of thousands of
men women and children are starving in
novels and on the public highway;
Whereas, This condition has become perma-
nenI for a large and ever-increasing number
Of our population, as long we permit
comparatively small class of legalized ex-
ploiters 10 monopolize the means of distri-
button for their private oeneft-a fact again
obvious in the case of the miners;
Whereas, Appeals to congress and to the
courts for relief are fruitless, since the leg
cial powers are under the control Of the cap
ita!istic class, so that it has come 10 pass
in this free country that while cattle and
swine have q right TO the public highways,
Americans s.o-called free men have not;
Whereas Our capitalistic class, as is again
shown in the present strike, is armed, and
has not only policemen, marshals, sheriffs and
deputies, but also regular army and militia,
in order 20 enforce government by injunc-
ton suppressing lawful assemblage free
speech and the right 10 the public highway,
o+bo han he 1abo An ~
the country are unarmed and defenseiess,
contrary to the words and spirit Of the con-
stitution of the United States; therefore,
be il
Resolved, That We hereby set apart Friday,
the Sd day of September, 1897, as a good
Friday for the cause of suffering labor in
America, and contribute the earnings of that
day to the support of our struggling brothers,
the miners, and appeal to every union man
and every friend Of labor throughout the
country to do likewise.
Resolved If the strike of the miners is not
settled by the 10th day of September, 1897,
and announcement made TO that effect by the
president of the United Mine Workers that
a general convention be held in Chicago on
Monday, Sept. q, by the representatives of
all unions, sections, branches, lodges and
kindred organizations OF laboring men and
friends of their cause, for the purpose of con-
sidering further measures in the interests OF
the striking miners and labor in general.
Resolved, That consider the use of the
ballot as the best and safest means for the
amelioration Of the hardships under which
the laboring classes suffer.
Resolved. That the public ownership of rail-
roads and telegraphs is one Of the most nee
essary reforms for our body polite.
Resolved, That we most emphatically protest
against government by Injunction, which
plays havoc with even such political liberty
as workingmen have saved from the steady
Entertainments of capital; and be il finally
Resolved, That no nation in which the peo-
ple are totally disarmed can long remain a
free nation, and, therefore, we urge upon all
interviewing citizens to remember and obey
article Of the constitution Of the United