Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-12-10
LABOR LEADERS SCORED.
Attack on judiciary Shown to Be Prov
ocative of Evil Result, "

At the last election certain leaders of
organized labor made a violent and
sweeping attack upon the entire judi
ciary of the country an attack couched
in such terms as to include the most
upright honest and broad-minded
judges, no less than those of narrower
mind and more restricted outlook. It
was the kind of attack admirably fit
ted to prevent any successful attempt
to reform abuses of the judiciary, be-
causeit gave the champions of the I'M
just judge their eagerly desired oppor-
tunity to shift their ground into
championship of just Judges who were
unjustly assailed. Last year, before
the house committee on judiciary.
these same labor leaders formulated
|st4setF-d anaal bill that
contained them; refusinga1 compro-.
mise, stating they wished the principle
of that bill or nothing. They insisted
on provision that in labor dispute
no injunction should issue except to
protect property right. and specifcal-
ly provided that the right to carry on
business should not be construed as q
property right; and in a second provis-
ion their bill made legal in a labor dis
pute any act or agreement by or be-
tween two or more persons that would
net have been unlawful if done by a
single person. In other words, this bill
legalized blacklisting and boycotting
in every form, legaizing, for instance
those forms of the secondary boycott
which the anthracite coal strike COM
mission so unreservedly condemneds
while the right to carry a business
was explicitly taken out from unGe r
! that protection which the law throws
over property. The demand was made
| that there should be trial by jury in
| contempt cases, thereby most seri ously
| impairing the authority of the courts.
All this represented a course of policy
| which, if carried out, would mean the
| enforcement of class privilege in it's
| crudest and most brutal form, and the
| destruction of one of the most essen
! tial functions of the judiciary in all civ
| ilized lands. .-g,
Evil in Class consciousness.
The violence of the crusade for this
legislation, and it's complete failure,
| illustrate two truths which it is essen
| tial our people should learn In the
first place, they ought to teach the
| workingman, the laborer, the wage
|@worker, that by demanding what is im-
! proper and impossible he plays into the
| hands of his foes Such crude and
vicious attack upon the courts, even il
it were temporarily successful, would
| inevitably in the end cause a violent
| reaction and would band the great
/ mass Of citizens together, forcing them
| to stand by all the judges, competent
and incompetent alike, rather than to
see the wheels of justice stopped. A
! movement of this kind can ultimately
1 result in nothing but damage to those
! in whose behalf it is nominal1y UNDER
I taken. This is a most healthy truth,
| which it is wise for all our people to
! learn. Any movement based on that
class hatred which at times assumes
the name of "class consciousness" is
| 4os IL H. oS g %o-,o
/ porarily succeeds, to do. far-reaching
/ damage. "Class consciousness" where
i it is merely another name for the odi-
Gus vice Of class selfshness, is equally
i noxious whether in an employers as
/ ISOLATION or in a workingman's associ-
i alton. The movement in question was
i one in which the appeal was made to
/ all workingmen to vote primarily, not
| as American citizens, but as individuals
i -of a. certain class in society Such an
4 appeal in the first place revolts the
more high-minded and far-signted
among the persons to whom it is adj
dressed and in the second place tend
4 to arouse a strong antagonism among
4 all other classes of citizens whom 1t
therefore tends to unite against the
very organization on whose behalf 1t is
issued. The result is therefore unfor-
tunate from every standpoint. This
4 healthy truth, by the way, will be
i learned by the Socialists If they ever
succeed in establishing in this country
4 an important national party based on
j such class consciousness and selfish
i class interest.
The wageworkers the workingmen,
Il the laboring men of the country by the
4 way in which they repudiated the eff
i fort to get Them to cast their votes in
4 response to an appeal to class hatred
8 have emphasized their sound patriotism
q and Americanism. The whole country
Il has cause to feel pridesin this attitude
q of sturdy independence, in this uncom-
q promising insistence upon acting sim.
I ply as good citizens. as good Arneri:
81 cans. without re ssay,f7 t to fancied -and
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