The independent., 1903-06-11
News of the Week

labor unions are doing things tha~
will be more damage to organized
labor than anything that employers
ever have, or can do. When an en-
ployer agrees to recognize the union
md the union scale of wages, extra
pay for over time and all other things
in regard to rules and regulations, for
that union to refuse to arbitrate and
to strike In order to force the EN-
ployer not to employ any one not be
longing to the union, 1t Is thing that
the public will not stand for. The
walters union of Chicago did that
very thing and chose to order the
strike in the middle of meal, leav-
ing. the guests unserved, in several
large hotels and restaurants. The
men of sense, by whose work organ
lied labor has reached it's presen.
status, all denounce such proceedings.
TO try to force employers to compel
persons to join the union, which thr,
union itself has failed to influence, is
only another application of the black
listing of which labor, has complained.
II labor organizations are to be over
thrown, it will be by the action OF the
unreasonable fanatics in the ranks OF
labor.
There is more trouble in the anthra:'
cite mining regions. Baer and his
friends refuse to recognize the mem.
bers Of the conciliation committee
provided for under the decision of the
commission appointed by the president
and another strike is threatened. The
public is very highly taxed to pay the
losses of the last strike with an al
ditional profit added by the operators
in the high prices charged for an
thracite coal and the people don't pro-
pose to be mulcted again by another
scarcity of coal and still higher
prices. Even some of the dailies are
warning Baer that he better look out
or the proposition for government
ownership of the mines will be in
sisted upon. The limit of exactions nf
the coal trust has been reached and
the people will find a way of escape
before they will submit to any more
robberies.
The republican state convention OF
Ohio met last weak, nominated Myron
T. Herrick for governor, indorsed
| Roosevelt for nomination for second
term. Hanna for reelection, and then
put out platform which consists in
| laudation of the republican party, pre-
tective tariffs and condemnation Il
democratic free trade to which they
attribute all the suffering which fol-
lowed the panic of 1898. The self
laudation and the lie about fire:
trade" when instead of free trade the
democrats under the lead of Gormar
actually increased protection, although
they lowered some of the schedules
makes it the most disgusting docu
ment that was ever issued by polit:
cal convention.
The usual amount of fighting DC
Cured in the Philippines during tn
week. There is no more prospect o
peace over there than when Genera
Otis was in the habit of sending III
daily cablegrams announcing that thu
war is over"
In the recent case from Hawai-
which involved exactly the same IS
, sues that were decided in the forme
imperialist cases, the court stood a
before, five to four. Justice Holme
of Massachusetts taking the imper
ialist side the same as Judge Gray d.
, who preceded him on the court. Man
! people had been hoping that Judg
r Holmes would stand by the Declare
5 ton of Independence.
. Justice Harlan says in his disseni
: ing opinion in the Hawaiian case: "
. stand by the doctrine that the cor
+ stitution is the supreme law in ever
t territory as soon as it comes unde
v the sovereign dominion of the Unite
4 States for purposes of civil admin.
: tration, and whose inhabitants al
n under it's entire authority and juri'
;. diction." There stand with hi
|. Chief Justice Fuller and Associat
d Justices Brewer and Peckham, az
a mitted to be the ablest men on I'll
supreme bench, besides a vast m;
jority of the people of the Unite
States, which fact would be Instant
;, proven if referendum vote W;
/ taken.
n The Independent has never believe
&c that an isthmian canal would be bui
= | &c Homo &c the trans-continental rOa,