The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-03-21
LABOR: NEWS AND Comments:
Personal, ORGANIZATION AND LEGISLATIVE.


The courts are again making some
envhable records i'm hsauinlg blanket
lnjunctions against workingmen. Two
weeks ago the trainmen on the Wa
bash were prevented from quitting in
a BODY to secure an increase of wages
Now down in Connecticut the supreme
court has restrained everybody from
boycotting the street railway company
Of Waterbury. All the defendants are
cited to appear In court on April 9Th
to show reason why the restraining or
der should be made permanent. BY that
time the street car strike shall have
been won or lost, and an injunction
will not be necessary. It is so strange
that the courts will repeatedly lend
themselves to corporations to defeat
labor from gaining strategic position
during strike. The hearing is set
for April 9th; too lote for labor to fort
ify itself, but it will give the street
railway company plenty of time to en-
trench itself SO that it can defeat any
effort OF labor to secure a redress Of its
wrongs. If the court wants to be fair
why does it not set the day Of hearing
at an earlier date?
On the other hand a court iniunc-
tion will have little effect in preventing
the boycott. Of the street cars. The
boycott, which is purely American,
was first used in Boston Harbor when
some patriots dressed as Indians.
threw boycotted tea over board.
Workingmen in Connecticut will not
take such revolutionary course, but
We know Of nothing. so effective as the
silent boycott which will be observed
against the company by every true
citizen of Waterbury.
John Mitchell went to washineton
to urge an investigation of the United
States marshalk. who cruelty and
bruitally killed three miners in West
VTginin two weeks ago. Mr.. Mitchell
will find that he is up against the real
thing now. The big strike was easy
compared with. this. Down in Elkin's 3
corporation state Of West Virginia,
anything and everything goes that will
aid a mining corporation to force a
point. The murder. of a few negro
| miners does not bother the authorities
there very much, But there is grow
ing sentiment among union labor men
bring to Justice those who use the state
for the purpose; Of doing criminal work.
Students in the labor movement can
see no. other. ~way.~of preventing such
| wrongs being: done to labor, than by
securing the political control of tAe
government. & Wonder what effect this
would have shaV sacount where the
ma5orttY q
bettefI III .s5.
iaz ,IAI BFs
therhp iil a1l-
colver, ~ have agreeds to1 submit thei,
grievances against the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad to arbitration. The rail-
roads offered ITO arbitrate.;the questions
previously, but the unions refused the
termE offered for arbitra ton. Now
that the latter has accepted them the
company says that the offer has beer
withdrawn. The Brotherhood of Rail
way Employees is a rival orga nizatior
to the brotherhoods and it is said that
Chief Arthur of the B. L. e. and E. E
Clark of the Conductors furnished mer
to take the places of the striking men
! This caused considerable hard feeling
among western union labor men. The
B. of r: E. is a western organization
and is rival Of the American Fedora
| tion Of Labor.
| The American Federation of Labo,
has called a convention Of Railway Elk
press employees to form an internationa
union. The convention will be helt
in Chicago on Monday. There ha:
been an impetus in organization among
railway express employees during thu
past year. In the state Of Minnesota
there are two thriving, local unions
and an effort is being made to form
union in Duluth. An expressman pu
| it to us in this manner: "Wh,
shouldn't we have a union? We ar,
not treated any too we'll. Just look Al
the mail clerk at the other end of the
| car. He gets six days off every twf
weeks and in many instances earn;
| twice as much money as we do"
Every employee on a railroad is or
ganized and secures better tree tmen
! as result Of organization. This ough
to prove true with expressmen.