The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-07-25
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The latest news with regard to the big strike in.
augurated by the employees Of the steel trust is that
the managers of said trust have decided to appeal to
the courts for injunction to help them out of their
dilemma.
Were there any reason to believe that the strikers
in this case are contemplating violence to persons
destruction of property for the prevention Of which
the law affords immediate and adequate means,
substantial cause might be advanced for the issue OF
such the trust is credited with hoping for
There being nothing, however to indicate that the
strike is in way to breed disorder the conclusion
forced that the trust has decided to seek help from
quarter where the habit of caprciousy interfering
without when capital and labor disagree has
been acquired with unseemng haste. Such being the
case, the following from the Philadelphia Record is
very much to the point
The numerous strikes throughout the country have been
TO anticipate and OF awessness When issued
for substantial cause there can be reasonable ground
OF complaint these processes They much in
the interest of the strikers Of the employers who invoke
them But in years these processes have become
frequent, and in capricious,
no small degree Of popular discomfort Formerly the ruling
where the laws could afford immediate and adequate
srrton Of nran~rty WIcrc ~ fss co,d ,b,s freeiv
operate njuntons could be obtained from the courts
hitting acts fo9 Which the tat,e laws reaten them With
punishment As consequence when the strikers do not
and are pnnishabe for that instead of for the mdemeanof
Of which they may have been guilty and against which pen
altics specifically denounced in book Thus
the strikers not tried by jury but tried and
shed by the judge issuing the Injunction BY this method
the accused often deprived of the ordinary
OF justice, and sunmariy condemned,
There other in which the Judges cnjoin the
strikers from committing acts which in them
selves and which the penal laws do ienounce Recently
Federal judge in Cincinnati declared that he would make
of the power of Injunction against piCkctng which
he defined "uterCcpug going and coming from
their work though miles from the factory In
tcrcepng is further defined by the Judge meeting men
and undertaking TO them into joining in strike
State court in Connecticut has issued writ against body
OF strikers. describing them b and enoinnE them
from pickcting The writ accompanied by attach
ment OF the property OF the strikers TO satisfy damages IN
| case OF violation OF the injunction.
These injuncons strangely coufound with criminal OF
fnses which harmless in themselves and against
which the laws provide penalty This what is known
as Judge law The judge not merely the legislator
but OF his law. American worSingmcn
made Of such extremely brittle stuff that they III danger
OF falling pieces unless protected by Injunction from the
persuasious Of those of their fellow workngmen who
desire them join in strike 1t is quite probable tina
injury is done employers by the and appeals
strikers their way and from the mills but this il
Of the business OF the long there
violation Of the laws The do exist to protect
man any body OF men from the damages that ars
from peaceful and entirely lawful OF other 1t
their function mpartaly administer the laws both
strikers and employers. When neither party commits
awess act there is occasion for the intervention OF tn
courtsleas OF all for rigging up the machinery OF iniunc
ton and stamping lawess and criminal which ar
penal code,
= 1t is a question to all reflective minds as to hoy
much further this thing without inviting yer
serious trouble And yet It is stretch of the trut
to say that a great majority of these victims of ir
junction getting what they voted for in 1873
and 1900