Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-08

union man in his place. The stables
were plcketed and boycotted, and an
injunction was then applied for to pre-
vent the union from interfering with
the plaintiffs business. The case was
fully argued and the result was that a
permanent Injunction was granted.
The principle underlying this decision
is evident and impregnable. AS the
court declared THE Constitution
alike protects natural freedom and in
dustral freedom. II the right OF prop
erty Is inalienable, the right to labor Is
inylOlabe The right to labor is a
right Of property, and the duty to pro-
teot It is the highest Office Of our laws
The court showed that while leglslat-
ures may alter ana regulate remedies
and procedure, they cannot destroy a
substantial remedy nor defeat the en-
forcement Of constitutional right
No man or combination OF men
II permitted by the Constitution
to harass or inJure another
in the pursuit OF his lawful business
These are principles, and they cannot
be legislated away not be subverted by
any organization however numerous or
powerful
The right to strike Is not denied. but
there is no right, In law or In reason,
TO compel others to strike or to prevent
people from working IN the place OF
strikers. The picketing practice re-
sorted to by some OF the unions Is un-
lawful and unbearable II Will have TO
be suppressed II persisted In. InJunc-
lions By the courts will be followed by
executive action, until the liberty OF
labor Is established. What Is called
government by injunction does not fit
the case OF such inJunctIons as that is
sued by the California court, The
abuse Of that power would be wrong,
like the misuse Of any other power, But
the evil that 1t meets is too great to be
ignored, and the full power Of the law
must be exercised to prevent the
wrongs OF picketlng and boycotting,
Our Washington correspondent
quotes Daniel Davenport, the executive
agent of the American anti-boycott as
ISOLATION. who gave the following state
ment, recently, In explanation Of the
movement to suppress the evil which
crops out at most of the troubles TO-
mented by the unions. He said:
1.-THE arrest OF President George F.
Golden OF the Transfers union. who
attempted to prevent teamster from
delivering goods consigned to his care
is fair but striking sample OF the
trouble which employers have with
strikers picketing,' Chicago has al
ways been noted for the intimidation
of Independent workmen attempting
to take the place OF strikers. In the
case OF the Kellogg Switchboard COM
pany, in which the Anti-BoycOtt asso-
citation was directly interested, the at
tempts Of the strikers TO prevent nom
union men from supplying their places
We're so desperate and such extreme
measures were used, that the case has
become one OF record In labor circles.
During this strike, notwithstanding the
Injunction issued by Judge Holdom,
fifty-three assaults were committed
upon the employees OF the firm, both
men and girls. and no less than three
hundred specific cases OF intimidation
were recorded. Smuggling committees
were detailed to follow the non union
lists TO their homes and administered
brutal beatlngs. After the strike had
been In progress more than six weeks
the Transfers union, Of which Mr.
Golden Is now president, became In
volyed. From 80 to $50 police officers
were detailed TO guard the wagons OF
the company, which were surrounded
by mobs OF battling, cursing men, wo-
men and boys, and which passed
through blockaded streets Shots were
fired, bricks and every conceivable mis-
slles thrown and 1t became dangerous
to walk in the streets adjacent to the
caravan.
"As a result Of these troubles many
of the union pickets were arrested and
fined in the courts, tort suits aggre-
eating $4,000 were entered against the
officers and members Of the union in
yolved, and twelve union officers and
plckets were fined and committed 10
jail for violation OF the injunction.
Later, Alexander c. Allen, the Chicago
attorney for the Anti-Boycott associa-
tion, was badly beaten because Of trou-
bes growing out Of the injunction suits
and a number of indictments were Sc
cured against his assallants and more
win doubtless follow.