The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-04-23
BILL.
STRANGLED by HOUSE.
REPUBLICANS sWAYED BY SLIP.
Perry TONGUES OF PARRY. =
TIES.
Committees Prevents Report On Anti.
Injunction Bill, and Aims Blow at
Organized Labor. Democrats Bat.
tie In Vain for Hearing. Statement
Of Employees Case Is Made by Con-
gresham Livernash.

Washington. April 21.-The anti-in-
junction bill was strangled to death by
the Republican members Of the House
Committee on the Judiciary Saturday.
The blow that was aimed at the or
ganized labor of the country was ac-
complished by the Republicans OF the
committee postponing for one week the
consideration of the anti-injunction
gramme for yesterdays session of the
committee.
The Democratic members protested.
The majority fthe committee, in spite
of the unanimous demand for the
measure of the laborers, yielded to the
pressure of the most gigantic lobby
that has ever invested the national
capitalize representatives Of the
trusts, the employers and the railroads
and carried the motion to postpone
consideration.
Delay Kills Measure.
The Democratic members pointed out
the fact that a weeks delay effectually
killed every possibility Of having the
measure passed upon by the House at
this session as there are but two weeks
remaining in which business can be
transacted.
The Republicans turned deaf ear to
the pleadings of the Democratic men,
bers for the laboring masses, and then
announced that they would vote for
postponement, owing to the fact that
they had not had time to read the
voluminous transcripts of testimony
given before the committee.
ho
ed when they reminded the Republicans
that the committee had reported the
identical bill now before them to the
last Congress, and that the House had
passed the measure. The failure of the
Senate to act caused it's defeat at that
time.
Republicans Vote 1t Down.
Every Republican member of the
committee voted to turn down the
measure. This act is considered a di-
rect slap at the organized labor Of the
country, which colsed it's case in sup
port Of the anti-injunction bill by fill
ing summary of the principles on
which the demand for t billsrests and
asSslnlnnaEX aof the asanaa lVeFse4stps
the arguments (which the urif6n 11lllt
ters have opposed the bill in and out of
committee. This concluding statement
of labor's case had been written ON re-
quest of representatives of the: Amer
lean Federation of Labor by Congress-
man Edward J. Livernash of California.
Here it is in part:
I'm America. since the civil war, no
man can be obliged to work against his
will for any other man.
Rights of Workers.
employers have no" higher rights
than their Workmen. Therefore, a
workman finding his employer unwill-
ing to hire on what such workman re-
CARDS as reasonable terms is at, liberty
to quit Internationally, though conse-
quences to the employers may be ruin
Gus: and two wrokmen may act. .togeth-
er to the end of obliging their employ
er to refrain from a Threatened cut of
wages or grant a desired, increase as
the condition Of continued: service, and
all the workmen in an industry may by
agreement cease working as means of
persuading employers to accept terms
agreeable to such workmen.
"That which a man has right to do
he has right to announce to one or
two or all the world that he contem-
plates doing.
"The writ of injunction has never
been more than bulwark of rights. It
has never of itself given or taken away
rights, but has only protected rights
and enforced heedfulness of duties 9TH
erwise established
Not : Peace Officer.
1.-THE writ of injunctions is not a
peace officer in enforcement of the
criminal laws. A bill, therefore, which
does not alter the office of the writ and
which leaves it freely applicable, wher-
ever there are civil rights to be pros
| tected cannot be said to be unconstitu-
tional as abridging the equity jurisdic-
tion Of the courts
ford in the newly published .sPreach-