The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-10-23

the interest or corporate power, anu
he further makes clear that the
means of which he believes this
alleged despotism has been set up In
the place of democracy Is by the
, process of injunction in the courts of
equity.
Mr. Gompers in his fetter states
) that his appeal TO the Republican
convention at Chicago for remedy
against the injunction Was denied,
and he then goes on to state not ouly
that the Democratic party promised
remedy. but promised him the par
ticular remedy that he had already
asked of congress.
His words are: "Labor's repre-
sentatives then went 10 the Demo-
cratic party That party made
labors contentious it's own 1t
pledged its candidates for every Office
10 these remedies which labor had al
ready submitted to congress.
The last sentence in this quotation
indicates very definitely the specific
remedies 10 which Mr.. Gompers
understands Mr. Bryan's party has
pledged itself
His statement now makes perfectly
clear an important plank in the
Bryanite platform which has hereto
fore seemed puzzling TO vast num-
Der of earnest minded thinking peo-
pie, who are sincerely interested in
the steady advance the legitimate
aspirations of labor and who care
fully read both platforms TO know
/ practically what each hold out for the
/ improvement of the conditions of
wage earners.
The plank reads as follows:
Questions of judicial practice
f have arisen especially in connection
with industrial disputes. We deem
that the parties TO all judicial pro-
ceedings should be treated with rigid
impartiality and that injunctions
should not he issued in any case in
which injunctions would not be issued
if no industrial dispute were Inc
voved
This is the plank that promises the
remedy" against Injunction which
Mr.. Gompers asked of Mr.. Bryan's
party. In actual fact il means abso
lutely nothing: no change of the law
could be based on il; no man without
inside knowledge could foretell what
its meaning would develop for no
man could foretell how any judge
would decide in any given case. as
the plank apparently leaves each
judge free 10 say when he issues an
injunction in a labor case whether or
not it is a case in which an injunction
would issue ii labor were not in
yolyed. Yet this plank is apparently
perfectly clear 10 Mr.. Gompers and in
his letter 10 his followers he indi-
Gates beyond question just what he
understands il To mean. He asserts
that he has the requisite inside
knowledge. His statement that Mr..
Bryan's party for il was Mr.. Bryan
who dictated the PLATFORM pledged
its self TO those remedies which
labor had already submitted 10 con-
gress" is a perfectly clear and def
mite statement.
The remedies which Mr. Gompers
has already submitted to congress are
matters of record and the identified
lion of his remedy" against injunc-
tions in labor disputes is easy and
certain This remedy" is embodied
in house bill No. "A, of the first
session of the sixtieth congress, the
complete text of which is hereto
appended The grist of the bill, as
can be seen BY referring TO the COM
plete text is this:
First after forbidding any federal
Judge TO issue a restraining order for
injunction in any labor dispute ex-
cept to prevent irreparable injury 10
property or property rights il specifi-
cally provides that no rights
10 carry on business of any
particular kind or at any particular
place. or at all. shall be construed,
held, considered. or treated as prop
erty or as constituting property
right
Second. il provides that nothing
f agreed upon or done by Two or more
parties in connection with labor
dispute shall constitute a conspiracy
or other criminal offense. or be pros
ecuted as such unless the thing
agreed upon will be unlawful if done
+ by a single individual.
The bill here described is not only
/ the remedy that Mr.. Gompers has
already submitted TO congress, but II
is the one and only remedy which
he and those associated with him in
! his present movement have announc-
ed that they will accept in the matter
of his grievance against the courts
on the injunction issue.
The counsel for the American
Federation of Labor and Mr.. Com
pers, its president. are on record to
this effect.
Al hearing before the house COM
mittee on judiciary the counsel of the
American Federation of Labor on
February ;. 1908, (as appears from
the printed hearings stated:
THE bill was considered by at
least two sessions of the executive
council of that organization and
unanimously approved. 1t was con-
sidered by Two of its national con-
ventions-the two latest and by
these unanimously endorsed. And
in the face of the many propositions
To amend it i'm the face of many pro-
posed substitutes, in the face OF
pressure from every direction, from
hfob cpuraae and raonnranc NOT On