The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-11-24
THE HoLDOM INJUNCTION CASE

A Capitalistic Judge Takes Another Step To-
wards Czardom-One More Step and Work
ingmen Will Be Jailed if They Refuse to
Work for Whatever Wage the Employers
Nav Offer-Tirne Has Come to Make
Stand for American Rights.
The Injunction issued by Judge Holdom OF
Chicago against the Chicago Typographical
Union and at the behest of the United Typo
thaete is an infringement upon czardom, a de-
NAL of American rights to American freemcn
and but one step removed from the shackhng
of American workingmen and making OF then:
slaves with no more rights than were enjoyed
bv the negro in the palmiest days OF chatter
slavery.
From the injunction issued by Judge FIol-
dom to an Injunction restraining workinginen
from quitting work individually or collective
" is such short step that the next capital
controlled Judge may be expected to take 1t.
The man who violates the Holdom injunc-
ton has no way of defending himself He is
Immediately thrown into Jail on the charge
OF contempt of court and may be held IN dur =
ance vile at the pleasure of the offended Judge
An Injunction Judge is at once legislature,
Judge and executor. He can make law, de-
clare it constitutional, enforce it to suit HIM
self and it becomes the law of the land through
that convenient but damnable theory OF pre-
cedent'
The Chicago printers have conducted their
battle within the law If they opposed to
the employers today it is the fault OF the en-
ployers. The printers were locked out by the
Tvpothaete. There has not been single case
of disorder. There has not been a single
case OF assault. Poole Bros, members OF the
Typothaete, advertise for country printers and
in their advertisements admit that there IS no
trouble Typothaete leaders secure an lnJunc-
ton bv claiming that the printers arc riotous,
etc.
Judge Holdom restrains the locked-out print
ers from talking with the rat printers, from
addressing them the street, from collecting
at or near unfair offices, from seeking to in.
ducc the rats to quit work by promises OF
emoluments or other situations elsewhere. tie
restrains them from addressing the general
public in an effort to induce the public to pat
ronize only fair printing houses Declaring
that there can be such thing as peaceful
pckcting' he restraints the locked-out print
ers from maintaining picket line. In short
Judge Holdoms injunction only allows the
ocked-out men to eat, sleep and breathe.
Lawyers, ministers. doctors, merchants and
even capitalists have denounced that injunction
as an outrage 1t is but one short step to
czardom. If that injunction stands the next
step will be to restrain employees from quitting
work if they are not satisfied with their wages
and treatment
And that will be the next step.
When that step is taken the American work
ingman will be worse off than the slave was
before the war worse off than the peasant OF
Russia and will have no hope and no need OF
aspirations.
The courts are today controlled by selfish
capital Men who pretend to be ignorant of
the reason for the growing contempt of courts
are either knaves or FOOLS There is grow
ing contempt for the courts because there IS
a growing knowledge that the courts are ruled
by selfish capital and not by exact justice.
The Holdom injunction goes further than
any other injunction ever issued. The next
one will shackle labors limbs
Then capital will be satisfied.
There is a remedy. 1t lies in the ballotbox.
When workingmen get enough sense into
their heads to line up in solid phaanN at the
ballotbox, disregarding partisan prejudice and
seeking only the good of themselves and their
common country, there will be end to the
injunction business.
The Holdom I'M junction must be fought
through the supreme court of the United
States. If it is upheld there then God help the
American workngman if he refuses to help
himself