Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-08-05
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loou laWs, m the prOmof ion of scientis. hgrculturc and in increasing inc com. forts or country life by the exnapsion or tne rural delivery. The policies of me present administration which have most lndnstrially promoted all these opJects, cannot fail to commend them. serves to his approval. and it is disi. cut to see how, with his intelligent appreciation of the threat Co bushes, prosperity involved in Democratic sue. .,He "t the polls, he can do otherwise .n'n give his full and hearty support to the continuance of the presen, ,a' shin. " '"'ee' Labor and What the RepubIicap p.,.,
 %. Has Done For It.
 We come now to the auostio, of labor. One important phase of ,bs qualities of the present administration mas been anxiety to secure for the waoa earner an equality of opportunity .ns such positive statutory proiec,ion as VII place him on level in dealing "'th ms employer. The Republican party has passed an employers liabil. ny IaW Tor interstate railroads. and mas established an eight.nour law for government employees and on govern. mont construction. The essence of tbe reform effected by the former ia Inc abolition of the fellow servant rnls and the introduction of tbe comna,. tive negligence theory bv which an employe injured in the service of h;. employer does not lose all bis ,;ah,. to recover because of slight neuliyenca on ms part. Then the act provIdin. TOT compensation for injury to eovern' ment employees, together with inc va,,. ous statutcs requiring safety appliance. upon interstate commerce railroad. fo, the protection of their employees and srnltlhg the hours of their employment nese are all instances of the efforts oI the Republican party to do justice to the wage earner
 Advantage Of Union.
 10 give to employees their proner p'9it'oh in such controversy to enable them to maintan themselves against employers having great capitl. they may wel unite, Tor in unity tncre is strength and without if each i,divid,.I laborer and employe will be belnla.. ne promotion of industrial neace through the instrumcntaiIity of trade agreement is one of the results oS snch union when intelligently con. ductef '""
 There IS body of laborcrs, how. ever, skilled and unskiIled. who ar. not organized into unions. Their rights Detore the law are exactly the same ., those oi the union men and are to be protected with the same wa,ebfuInss.
 Rights of Labor.
 m order to induce their employees in cohPhance to their request for chang. ca conditions of employment workmcn nave the right to strike in a body. They nave the right Co use such persuas;on hs they may, provided it does not reach the point of duress, to lead their reluet. ant co'laborers to join them in thsi, union against their employees and tbev have the right if they choose. to as. cnmulate funds to support those on strike, to delegate fo officers the pove, to direct the action of the union ana to withdraw themselves and their asso- ciates from dealings with or giving to those vita whom they are in sontro versy.
 Some Things Labor Cannot Do.
 Labor has not the right to injurs tneir employers property, to injure their employers business because of threats or methods of physical dure.s against those who would work for him, or deal with him. or by carrying on what IS sometimes known as n second ary boycott against his customer or those with whom he deals with in business. All those who sympathixe with them may unite to aid them. hut they may not through the instrument. ality of a threatened or actual boyeott compel hired persons against their will and having no interest in their contro. versy to come to their assistance. These principles nave for n great many years been settled by the courts of this country.
 Threatened unlawful injuries to busi. ness like those above can only he sde- qustely remedied ny m injunction to prevent them. The jurisdiction of a court of equity to enjoin in such cases arises from the character of the injury and the method of inhicting it and tho fact that suit for damages offers no adequate remedy.
 The injury k not done by one single act which might not adequately be compensated for in.tdamages by n suit at law, but it is the result of n con. stanly series of acts. eaca Of which in itself might not constitute q substantial injury or might not make n suit at law worth while. all of which would re. quire multiplicity of suits at law. Injuries of this class have since the foundation of courts of equity been prevented by injunction. I, has been claimed that iniunctions do not issue to protect anything but property rights and that business is not property right, but such n proposition is wholly inconsistent with all the decisions of the courts. The supreme court of the United States says the injunction is n remedy to protect property or rights of a pecuniary nature and we may we'll submit, to the considerate judgment of all laymen whether the right of man in his business Is not as distinctly a right of pecuniary nature as the right to his horse or his house or the stock of goods on his shelf.
 The instances in waich injunetions to protect business have been employed by all courts are so many that it is futile further to discuss the propos- Ia I tn .n k.