Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-08-15
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T judge who issued the injunction. This is to make it the privilege of a judge to enact special law at the behest of corporations; and to leave with him the right to punish for infraetion of such law. The maker of law is to be its interpreter and executor, and in the latter capacity there is no appeal from his decision.
 A people that would submit, without protest, to such judicial czarism de- serve to be enjoined into slavery.
 The latest instance of the evil ten dency of government by injunction has occurred in Bisbee, Ariz.
 The injunction issued by Judge Doan of Tombstone against Bisbee Miners union, No. 1O6, w. F. of M., deserves to rank with all the historical cases of property versus liberty.
 The relation of the circumstances leading up to the issuance of this writ will bear reiteration.
 On April 10, 1907, the miners union declared strike against the chief min ing companies of Bisbee, among them that arch enemy of organized labor, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining com pany. The purpose of the strike was to abolish the vicious system of discrim- ination against, and blacklisting of, union miners. Never was strike con dueted in more peaceable or orderly hA ,,tt tion to the contrary, the miners kept the peace and obeyed the law The contrary provoeation proceeded from imported thugs, the Citizens alliance, and from armed officers humorously called peace officers.
 Among the legitimate tactics adopted by the union to attain its end was that known as "picketing. The law af- firms picketing to be legal, when unac- companied by violence or other unlaw- ful acts. It is also conceded that work ingmen may strike to obtain their law ful ends.
 Until July 13, 1907, the mining com panies had never been able to connect the miners union with any act, overt or covert, in defiance of the law. On that date writ of injunction against the union was obtained by the Fl Paso & Southwestern Railway company from Judge Doan. The E. P. & s. w. com pany is an auxiliary enterprise of the Copper Queen company.
 The injunction forbids the strikers to picket the trains of the railway com pany, to distribute strike circulars on the trains, to inform passengers of the fact that a strike exists, or to use the United States mails for similar pur- poses.
 It should be remembered that there was no strike against the railway com pany, that no proof has ever been ad- duced that the purpose of the strike was to injure the railway company, and that if that company has been injured by the strike, there is nothing unlawful in the process when no malice or intent to injure can be shown.
 The facts are: That the pieketing of the strikers had been successful in keeping the mining companies short of miners; that this had rendered the companies so desperate that a resort was had to the handy injunction; and that in the name of another corporation the Copper Queen company managed to do that, which, in it's own right, it could never have achieved.
 No notice was given the union that the railway company would apply for this writ. The law books tentatively suggest that it is proper to serve such notice. Decency and justice would sug- gest that no injunction should be issued until both sides have been heard.
 But what are decency and justice balanced in the scale against the neces- sities of property?
 The attorney for the railway com pany appeared before the judge, and on information and belief alleged that the union miners were committing certain acts to the detriment of his clients. The allegations were nearly all exaggerated; most of them were lies.
 Let us see.
 They allege that "without merit or cause" the members of the union con spired to strike against the mining com panies.
 Lie No. 1 is the statement "without merit or cause.' The strike was called to abolish a blacklist against union men. Is there no merit in such a pur- pose9 Does not every theory of free government announce the right of men to associate for their betterment; and to retain the right to earn their bread even though so associatedg
 There was merit in the strike and there was ample cause for it.
 The mining companies had fought the union by discharging it's members from employment in the mines. They had, by many mouths, announced this as their policy.
 It is lawful for labor union to exist. It is lawful for such union to strike for the benefit of its members. It is benefit to the members of any union to work as union men unafraid of the blacklist therefor.
 There was both merit in, and cause for, the action of the union to assert it's rights.
 Lie No. 2 is the use of the word "conspiraey.''
 Men cannot conspire to do lawful thing. A conspiracy is, of itself, un-