The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-03-20
INVOLUNTARY SERNITUDE.

If the injunction issued from the
court of Judge Adams of st. Louis,
in the United States circuit court, is
to stand, slavery will be re-estab'
lished in the United States.
Free labor is not free unless the
wage Garner has the right to quit
work at will, and if he has the right
to desist as an individual, he has the
right to combine with his fellow
workmen and quit work at an agreed
time, or It the call of an official to
whom the workmen have delegated
power to make the call.
In the St. Louis injunction the
court enjoined me employees OF the
Wabash Railroad company from go
ing on strike, and if the higher
courts should uphold the injunction,
organized labor in the United States
will be thing Of the past Work
men organize tor the purpose OF Sc
curing concert of action among them
selves, and if they are not allowed
to act together in calling strike,
they might as well be forbidden to
organize; for without such power
they are helpless.
The St Louis injunction is an at
tempt to establish feudalism in the
place of American freedom, and it
will fail, just as an attempt to re-
establish slavery in the south would
fail The employer has the right to
discharge his workmen, either slngly
or in a body, nor is he obliged to
give any reason for so doing, and no
matter how arbitrarily he may exer-
else the privilege, no one will ques-
ton his right to do SO. He has the
undoubted right to delegate this
power to a superintendent or to any
board Of officers, and such superin
tendent or hoard of officers can say
to the workmen: After such and
such a date your wages and hours
will be 50 and SO; all who do not
choose 70 acsept such terms can
quit"
The men nave the same right to
choose officers to represent them and
present their demands. and they have
the same right to say to the EN-
ployer: IF our demands are not com
piled with before a certain time we
will quit This right is denied them
seen by the following order contained
in the injunctlon:
I'VE, therefore, in consideration
thereof and the particular matters II
said bill set forth, do strictly com
mand you and each and every one o
you, individually and as representa-
tives of the Order of Brotherhood o
Railway Trarnmen and brotherhood
of Locomotive firemen, you, and salt
organizations, repreSent atlVeS. clerks
agents and attorneys, and all other
who may be aiding and abetting 70,
OF them, or acting in concert Wit
YOU or them, and under you or thei
direction until the further order q
this court, absolutely to desist an
refrain from iii any way or mamie
ordering, coercing, persuading, il
ducing or otherwise causing directl
or indirectly, lHt tllplONeS VI III
said Wabash Railroad company, el
gagged in or about the operation {
it's trains within the United State
and brak6men, switchmen or LOGON
tive tiremen to strike or quit tt
service of saiu company; and fro
in any way molesting or interferiI
with said railroad company's sa
employees. or with the operation
it's trains, or the conduct of its bus
ness as a common carrier.
The men are not only forbidden
order a strike, but are also denit
the right to persuade or induce the
fellow workmen to leave the Servi
of the railroad company. The CT
pOrations seeking to establish SUI
involuntary servitude are anarchis
of the worst type. for such an ord
would bring about a struggle tn
would sweep away the proper
rights and liberties guaranteed
our constitution. The employees of t
Wabash have strengthened TIL
cause by obeying the injunction a
appealing the matter to the high
court, where the order will no dor
be annulled.