The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-09-06
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including organized labor, used the
following language in respect to the

including organized labor, used the
following language in respect to the
boycott:
1T also becomes our duty to con-
denim another less violent, but not less
reprehensible, form of attack upon
those rights and liberties of the citi-
zens which the public opinion of civil
lied countries recognizes and protects.
The right and liberty to pursue a law
full calling and to lead a peaceable life,
free from molestation or attack, con-
Germs the comfort and happiness of all
men, and the denial of them means the
destruction of one of the greatest, II
not the greatest, of the benefits which
the social organization confers. What
is popularity known as the boycott Ia
word OF evil omen and unhappy origin)
is form of coercion by which a COM
b1nation of many persons seek to work
their will upon single person or upon
a few persons by compelling others
to abstain from social or beneficial
business intercourse with such person
or persons. Carried to the extent
sometimes practiced in aid of a strike
and-as was in some instances prac-
ticed in connection with the late an
thracite strike, it is cruel weapon of
aggression, and its use immoral and
antisocial.
ITO say this is not to deny the legal
right of any man or set of men volun-
tarily to refrain from social inter-
course or business relations with any
persons whom he or they, with or
without good reason, dislike. This
may sometimes be un-Christian, but it
is not illegal. But when it is con-
certed purpose of number of per-
sons not only to abstain themselves
from such intercourse, but to render
the life of their victim miserable by
persuading and intimidating others so
to refrain, such purpose is malicious
one, and the concerted attempt to ac-
complish it is conspiracy at common
law, and merits and should receive the
punishment due to such a crime"
The same commission visited black
listing with similar condemnation.
, 1t seems cellar therefore that how
ever pure and honest the intentions of
MIR. GOmpers or the American Fedora
ton of Labor, and do not question
the sincerity and earnestness of their
purpose in opposing the views of other
labor organizations and of President
Roosevelt and in demanding the pass
age of this bill, they are not invoking
the equal protection of the laws. They
are seeking to make the workingmen
who vilate the rights of others in la
Dor disputes privileged class, and
secure to them unequal immunity
from the effective processes of the
law.
The Presidents sympathy With Labor.
: No president has shown greater
interest in the workingman, a greater
concern for the enactment OF measures
which shall better their conditions,
greater sympathy in their organiza-
lions, and with their aspirations, than
Mr.. Roosevelt. In saying this I am
only repeating the statements made by
representatives of organized labor be-
fore committees of congress. He has
just appointed the president of la
Dor union to be member of the highly
important interstate commerce COM
mission. 1t is idle, in view of his just
and impartial attitude toward both
capital and labor, to charge that his
view of Mr.. Gomper's bill is due to
prejudice against the laboring classes,
especially when the bill is not sup
ported by other bodies or organized
labor.
Mr.. LittleAeld's Courage.
The political power Of the American
Federation of Labor every one recog-