The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-28
CRIME AND ANARCHY
RESULTS OF ORDINATIONS o1 UNIONS.
Attorenvs Appear before House Com- mittee to Argue Against the Anti i-ConsDiracy Bill
 Now Pending. >

Advertiser Bureau, Colorado Building, Washington, Feb. 27 The House Committee on Judiciary Thursday resumed It's hearings of those present opposed U the anti ,ons piracy bill.
 Daniel Davenport of Bridgeport, Conn.,, was the first speaker. He said he was the executive agent of the American Anti Boycott Association, an organization formed for the purpose of enforcing the laws, particularly against boycotting. He also represents the Chicago Building Con tractors Council. tke National Building Employers Association and the Citizen,' Industrial Alliance of the United States He said the position of the opponents of this bill was extraordinary in that some one was asking the repeal of the law which has been in existence ever since the Anglo-Saxon race, while nobody but MT. Gompers. land he says he is not a lawyer but horny-handed son of toil." has been able to advance any reason why such a remarkable law should be enacted by Con gress. go we are shelling the woods to find out where the advocates stand"
 Tho passage of this bill will make law full the outrageous and un-American agreements now in force between associa- tions of employers and labor unions by
 
 ton an dthe non-member of the union can be excluded and the public fieeced." he said, and 1t will legalize Sam Parkism because just such extortion Is made possi- ble and lawful by tho terms of the bil, and 1t will take away from the States the right 10 make and punish criminal acts | like boycotting'"
 He devoted some time to a review of the various Federal adjudications upon | the matters sought to be covered by the bill and said that the American Fedora tton of Labor was a great organizati ton systematically engaged in doing the very thing which the courts had universally condemned as unlawful
 Tt Is an organization composed of a great number of unions banded together for the purpose of aiding assisting, de- claring and enforcing boycotts against those unfortunate employers who may happen to come under their ban. and this Is the skind of an organization that has fostercd. originated and is now advo- eating the passage of this bill.''
 | He read from the declarations of prin- | ciplcs of numerous constituent organiza- tions of the American Federation of La bor and condemned them as socia,istic | and pernicious.
 "Tf organized for the purpose of making better workmen. improving individual en- vironment or advancing the cause of civ l ilization. I myself, and those I represent would be in favor of labor unions," he said. "but in their practical workings they are not of that character Most of them are socialists teaching the doctrines of disregard for the rights of others equally entitled to the protection of the law with themselves; instiling in the minds of the working classes of the country a spirit of hostility against those who control the production of the country; destroying the | liberty of contract between employer and employee: putting a premium of disloyalty and crime and bringing public reproach l and disgrace upon our courts not only 1 hv defying their mandates and injunctfons hut by publicly in their journals and in every other way uttering the most abus- i've statements against the judges who cndeavor to enforce the law"
 "The great problem before the American people today-greater than slavery and secession ever was-is the recovery of the right of every man to run his own busi- ness according to the dictates of his own Judgment" he said, 'and the right of ev- cry man with lahor to sell to dispose of 1t to whomsoever he desires whether he be- longs to union or not. This is the ques- tion. l say. which Is today gnawing like a cancer at the vitals of society Let us not permit sophistry or sentiment to mis- lead us" he vigorously entreated, for We can change our cooking. our style of dress. or even our system of government, but not the relations of, employer and em- ploye.' He said there was no such thing as peaceful picketing, and recountad with much interest many experiences he had personally gone through in this regard He argued that the passage of this law would preclude all possibility of breakins hoycotts. and that it would invaIidate the sherman antitrust law and certain pro visions of the Interstate Commerce Act ''
 There are three things which stink in the nostrils of the American people to- day" he said. "the boycott: combinatione between associations of employers and unions, by which a man not in the asso- citation is ruined and man not in tho union is deprived of his opportunitv to earn his livlihood and graft, all of which would in effect he legalized by the passage of this bill.''
 He said one of the arguments advanced by the labor unions which he desired to most earnestly combat was that because some Federal Judge had exceeded the power given him by law in the issuance of an injunction or restraininr or. der therefore the power of in. junction should be taken oway from all federal courts in the particulor F class of cases contemplated by the bill.
 This he characterized as too absurd to even be dignihed by a reply. In con clusion. he said, Whatever won do
 gentlemen of the Committee. don't place upon your children and the generations
 to come the stigma of this iniouitons measure, aimed to legalize every form
 of anarchy and lawlessness that oon he
 conceived in the minds of the leaders 70
 organized labor Don't comnel +bo owners of property in this great land of ours to resort to the rife. the bavonot
 or the policeman's club for the protect,oD
 of their property and their lives b,,t ] leave this where 1t now is in the hanSs of able and conscientious jurists who