The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-20
DISCUSSED LIVE ISSUES.
Labor Delegates Listened TO Adj
dresses From Well known Men.

LabOr DeleGnteS Listened 10 Au-
dresses From Well known Men.
A special public session of the Fed
GRAFTON WAS held at Knights of Pythias
Hall at night, at which addresses were
made by Mr.. C. C. Houston, secretary
treasurer of the Federation, by Mr..
Pleasant A. Stovall, Capt. ]. Ferris
Cam and MIR. C. T.. Ladson, the last
named, attorney for the Federation and
one of its closest and warmest friends.
The meeting was presided over by
Mr.. w. S. Harris, president of the Sa-
yannah Trades and Labor Assembly.
who introduced the speakers. Their
speeches were devoted largely to an
exposition of the claims and position
of organized labor and to Endorsements
of the movements now a foot to allie
viate the condition of the working peo-
pie of the state.
Both Col. Stovall and Capt. Cam
gave attention to the subject of arbi
tration as a wise and proper means of
settling disputes between capital and
labor The man who thinks his quar-
rel just, both of these speakers agreed,
would never hesitate to commit his
claims to the arbitrament of three
honest, capable and unbiased Judges of
the merits of the controversy. 1t is only
when he is lacking himself in conf
dence in the justice of his cause, that
he cries out there is nothing to arbi-
trate" and retreats behind the doubt
full protection of a sodden and sullen
Indifference.
The child labor BILL too, both of
them approved, their approval and in
dorsement receiving an added signifi-,
canoe from the fact that they are rep
resentatives from this county to the
general assembly, before the next ses-
sion of which the bill will come for
final action.
Capt Cam said he had had occasion
to make an investigation of the sub
ject, and that the conditions it revealed
were positively appalling to any civil
lied intelligence. Without such law
as is proposed children even under the
school age We're being worked in the
cotton mills of the state, with the re-
suit that their constitutions were
blighted, their opportunities for edu-
cation LOST their characters contain
mated by the sullied atmosphere in
which their childhood's days were
passed.
such a horrible condition" said
Capt Cam. lis responsible for the
fact that so many of the citizens of
our state become physical, mental and
moral wrecks"
The principal address of the evening
was delivered by Mr.. c. T. Ladson of
Atlanta, whose popularity with the del
egates to the convention was evinced
by the applause that greeted his APP
pearance and Interrupted and pune
tuated his graceful periods.
Mr.. Ladson's address was largely
devoted to a discussion of the in
furious effects of what has become
known as "governmnt by injunction"
He denounced this as an arbitrary as
sumption of illegal power by the fed
eral judiciary and urged upon the DEL
egates to the convention that they
would use their united and persistent
efforts so to modify the existing ju
| dietary laws of the United States that
| this wrongful assumption of power
would be impossible in the future.
There is a bill now pending in the
Senate of the United States which is
| designed to accomplish this purpose,
and Mr.. Ladson besought the fedora
| ton to use its influence with the SEN
/ ators and representatives from this
state to aid in it's enactment into law.
The speaker said that this assump-
ton of judicial power was of recent
origin, and, in the form in which it
has become Objectionable, is confined
to the United States. In the courts
| of England, from which country this
country derives its system of jurispru-
| dence, no such attempt to destort
| and magnify the real powers of courts
| to punish for contempt has ever been
| attempted.
why" he said "an attempt has re-
Gently been made to enforce by fine