The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-06

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parties directly Interested. but IL Ia also
Of the greatest benefit to tho Community.
At large, which IL not 40 much Interested Ia
which OF the " contestants wins a. IL 10
IN having the dispute peaceably and quickly
settled.
HEA VALUE OF LABOR e~aoAxIzArIA-nk
We live In IN age Of organization. ne
value TO the public OF organizatioR OF cApi-
tai ! have already discussed. Labor must
organize, because otherwise In It's legitimate
| controversies with capital, in the 6xinRb or
It's proportion Of the Joint product OF labor
and capital, II would be helpless. After n.
long time. perhaps. the economir @wT9f
supply and demand hxes wages, but in the
not short periodao OF transition the orgAnixaA
ton OF labor has certainly raised and n6aine:
I tlined wages, and IL has secured other krenA5
! benefits To- It's membarS, Hnt tha- p0Weg,
Of such organizations and co~mhinAtionss
like those OF capital. Is sometimes abus9A
and developa evils that must be restTffnSd, :
The injunction has been found 10 h0GRA'
appropriate remedy for the evik ariAlnR,
from organization n c~OmbtnationA
whether OF labor or capital. This Il sh9s1
against trusts and railway rate discrimlna-
tions has expressly given remedy by injunc.
ton against the Illegal combinations and,
determinations. .n.e
% UNJUST MJUNCTIoNs. $50, ',
But It IL urged with good ground thss
I tnjunctions have sometimes Issued from
Federal and other courts in labor disputes
In which lawful acts OF defendants were
enioined. IL In no reason for taking way
a jurisdiction from a court that it some
times commits error-oourte Of appeals.
are created 10 remedy errors. In one
instance, at least an appeal was taken by h .
labor defendants and the lower court'Sc
injunction was modified. In another case;
in a Federal court. the Judge himself was
asked TO reconsider the form OF his injuno-
ton granted eE pdrte, which he did, found
that IL was in error, the injunction was
modified, the strike went on and the men
won. Il IL said, however. that an Injunction
uniustly broad may break up a lawful
strike before an appeal a be perfected.
This may be true in some instances, but II
an appeal in such a case is prosecuted to q
higher court and the error corrected In
fertor courts will not again make the mis-
take
PRESIDENT ~RoosEvELr's REMEDY.
Errors in the scope OF restraining orders
have been committed at times. il is said,
becnUse ISSUED hastily at the instance OF
lawyers for the employer and without notice
to the persons to be enjoined. This fact
was called to the attention Of President
Roosevelt He therefore recommended
to Congress- in pursuance Of the request
OF the heads 0f some OF the most conservA@,
tive n best conducted labor unions In
this country that an amendment be adopted
returning to the practice that formerly.
prevailed in courts OF the United Statsa1
under a statute now repealed, Of issuing
" AiJbAASNibiN OhAy OtAgW
TO the defendants. This would certainly
prevent hasty OF undue action and at the
same time not destroy a valuable remedy
for the redress OF private and public n
Nh. ooMPERs Rejects THIS REMEDY.
Mr.. Gompers and the American Federation
Of Labor spurned the observation-disclosures
dalton, and the Gilbert bill was introduced
in pursuance of the recommendation and
demanded from the President and Congress
a complete abolition of the injun ction
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recommend such action, and said hat hs
would invoke the remedy Of injunction an
quickly against unlawful acts of working.
men as against unlawful acts OF capitalists.
Now Mr.. Gompers is seeking to defeat
Mr.. Littlef1eld FOR taking the same view
OF this matter as Mr.. Roosevelt. .r'
THE BILL LOCALITIES BoYcoTTs AND BLAcK-
LISTING. ~
The. second, section of the Gompers bill
provides in. effect that, no act in respect
to labor matters by q combination Of two
lawful, either criminally or civilIy, il tho
same act committed by one person is not
unlawful. This section is intended, and
will have the effect, to legalize boycotts
and blacklisting. The principle which this
section seeks to set aside is that upon which
all the schemes of organized capital to
restrain trade and establish m~onopoiles
are declared u~nlawfulI Do you wish to
st aside this principle so far as to legaliSe
DOYCOlNEF lucy hdN0 bEGH uCGluEEu
illegal by the Supreme Courts OF many
States Of the Union and by the Supreme
Court of the United States. They are
oppressive and cruel. So is blacklisting. $40
The anthracite strike commission, which
was composed Of men selected by>agree-
ment between the employers and the
employees, and had upon it prominent
and able and honorable representatives OF
all classes Of people, including organized
labor, used the following language in respect
IN tha bOvCOtt.
at also becomes our duty to condemn
another less violent, but not less repre-
hensible. form Of attack upon those rights
and liberties OF the citizens which the public
opinion Of civilized countries recognizes
and protects. The right and liberty to
pursue a lawful calling and to lead peace
able life, free from molestation or attack,
concerns the comfort and happiness OF
destruction of one Of the greatest, If not
the greatest, of the benefits which the social
organization confers. What ia peculiarly
known as the boycott "a word of evil omen
and unhappy oTigin) is q form of coercion
by which a combination OF many persons
seek to work their will uponA single person
or upon a few persons by com polling
others to abstain from social or beneficial
business intercourse with such person or
persons. Carried to the extent sometimes
practised in aid Of a strike and as was in.
some ingtanoes practised in connection Val
with the late anthracite strike, IL II a cruel "
cap Of aggression, and its use immoral
and Anti-soctal.
-To say this is not TO deny the legal right
OF any man or set Of men voluntarily to
refrain from social intercourse or business
relations with any persons whom he or
they. with or without good reason, dislike.
This NAV sometimes be un-Christian, but
il is not illegal. But when It is a concerted
purpose Of a number Of persons not only
to abstain themselves from such interoourseI
but to render the life Of their victim miser-
able by persuading and intimidating others
so to refrain, such purpose is a malicious
one, and the concerted attempt to accom-
plish IL is a conspiracy at common law and
merits and should receive the punishment .
due TO such a crime" "
The same commission visited blacklist
ing with similar condemnation.
II seems clear, therefore, that however
pure and honest the intentions OF Mr.. Com
pers or the American Federation Of Labor,
and l do not question the sincerity and
earnestness Of their purpose in opposing
the views Of other labor organizations and