The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-08-03

President of District II, was one the stand
today and established the connection be-
tween the strikers and the national
organizat ton. a point which the prosecu- |
ton has endeavored to bring out so as
to prove confederation. |
In his address to the defendants Judge |
Keller said:
"a great deal has been said here about
the efforts of certain people to learn the
extent of these injunctions and what they
meant and the inability on the part OF
some of them to gather any meaning
with regard to them beyond the fact
that they were not to tresspass upon MI.
Collinss property.
Now the trespass notices had that eff
feet. Any man has the right at any time
to post trespass notices upon his property
and to require all persons to seek per-
mission before they go upon his property.
He does not need the aid of the courts
for that purpose
Different conditions make a dinerence
in the rights of all of us. A small as
sembliage of persons seeking peacefuiiy
and peaceably to gain a LAWFUL anu
righteous end may do things which
large body of men with ostensibly the
same purpose have nosright to DO lot the
reason that that body of men may over
awe and does overawe in many instances,
other people who have rights that must
be respected.
Now under ordinary circumstances,
the question of the number OF men as
sembled together for what to them Is
lawful purpose has little to do with the
rights of other people, but under condi-
tons like those which have been shown
to exist at the present time. people are
moro or less disturbed. They know that
there is a difference of opinion between
certain men who are laborers ana VINO
have a perfect right to their opinion anu
a. perfect right to organize to the luiiesl
extent to gain what they consider are
their rights and certain other people VINO
do not think as they do. When those
conditions exist we cannot disguise the
fact that the parties who think dlHereht-
lv necessarily draw more or less INTO
narties. They consider those who think
az thew do their friends and those VINO
do not think as they do, as more or less
their enemies For that reason IL pe-
hooves men, whether there be fnJunctlons
or whether there be no inJunetiohs'
whether there be trespass notloes oI
whether there be no trespass notces; at
a time like that to give no occasion tor
suspicion of their good intentions
AS to facts alleged to exist wneh the
hill was sworn out. the court KNOWS
nothing. 1t presented SUCH state OIL III
fairs as in the belief of the court at the
$50 authorized and required 1t to issue
its Injunction. That injunction was NOT
designed to restrain any lawful right OF
onv limited Mine Worker under the cir
o,mstances that then existed. 1t was de-
signed simply to protect the rights OF the
perscas who desired to peacefully LABOR
The question, and the hard question LOT
Won men to solve and for the court 10
solve is as to what precisely you may
do at any given time without Vloidtlns
the rights of those men VINO desiFe 10
neacefully labor. 1t is hard matter
men. to define that in advance. You can
readily see that 1t is q hard matter TO
define that. The court says in its in
functions that you shall not make them
| afraid: that you shall not intimidate those
men. The court practically goes further;
| II has the right to II the circumstances
| are nroperly made an the bill and says
Won shall not force ,Inwholesome persua-
sion upon them under these circum-
stances. 49,,
"N,w. at any time that you meet these
men in the ordinary course you nave the
right to persuade them to join your union
| a perfect right. And If you can sno"
| to them that 1t is to their interest," TO
oiin YOUR union, why. do it. You nave
to think you way, because they 90 not
quite think it safe to think otherwise
Now, that in a general way, is lhe
limits of this thing. | take 1t. men, that
Won know that when a large body of men
| get together, with the most peacefully
| declared purposes in the world, they have
| men among them who have made ana are
making threats, and they get close TO a
| smaller body of men who do not think
as thew do. and are at work. and there
hold a ratification and rejoicing meeting
of their own side, that has dinerent
| effect under those circumstances on the
| minds of men who desire to go on with
their work than a small gathering. peace
| fully persuading.
Now, the point of the 'nearness'
| There is no line; the injunction lays
| down no line. but 1t does say that you
must not get close enough and act In n
| hodv in such a way as to intimidate or
| interfere with those people who desire
| to work. In other words you must not
| make them afraid you must not do
things that will cause them to fear the
| consequences; to leave their work or 10
| he deferred from doing their full duty
| as they may see It,
| 81 saw these things. not as indicating
| anv view that | may hold with regard
| 10 what has been done here. But | thought
| n well enough to say in a few BRIEF
| words to Won what | conceive to be the
| true rule of the Interpretation OF these
| injunctOns; it is not an lhterPretatloii
|