The sun., 1908-06-18
PROTEST AGAINST LABOR PLANK.
Business Men Here Bombard Serene f.
Payne With kilograms.

More protests against the insertion Of
the anti-injunction plank in the Republican
platform were sent from this city to Chicago
yesterday by associations of employers and
by individual concerns. Commissioner Wal
ter Drew of the National Erectors Associa-
alton sent to Serene E. Payne, the New
York member of tho committee on resoll-
tions, this telegram:
The members of our association. who manu-
factrre and erect substantially rs per cent.
Of all the structural iron and steel used in this
country. protest most emphatically against
the insertion OF any plank in the platform
limiting the powers OF our courts in labor
cases or questioning their integrity as
| unwarranted and unjust iqa ble and not only
opposed to the spirit OF our American insttu-
tions but also most injudicious attack
upon the business interests of the country
at a most unfortunate time.
The following telegram was also sent to
Mr. Payne by c. E. Cheney, secretary of the
Allied Iron Associations:
The Allied Iron Association Of New York
city desire to register their emphatic protest
against any anti-injunction plank. so-oalled.
In the platform. They consider 1t a direct
and warranted attack upon business
interests.
|. Commissioner Drew OF the Erectors said
that independent of the protest from the
association at least half Of the firms which
are members sent individual protests Of the
same kind. The association issued yester-
day a statement in referenep to the charges
that MIR. Taft's decisions as Circuit Court
Judge were adverse TO labor and that he
had shown himself as opposed TO unions, in
which, BY, way Of reply, the following de-
contempt proceedings through interference
by unions with q business in the hands OF a
receiver was quoted:
Now It may be conceded in the outset
that the employees OF the receiver had the
right to organize into or join a labor union
which should take Joint action as to their
terms OF employment 1t is Of benefit to
them and to the public that laborers should
unite In their common interest and for law
full purposes. They have labor to sell. II
they stand together they are often able,
all Of them. to command better prices for
their labor than when dealing singly with
rich employers, because the necessities OF
the single employee may compel him to
accept any terms offered him. The aocumu-
lation Of fund for the support Of those who
feel that the wages offered are below market
prioes Is one Of the legitimate objects OF such
an orgsnization. They have the right to
appoint offcers who shall advise them as
to the course TO be taken by them In their
unite with other unions. The officers they
appoint or any other pSrson tS.T e whom they
proper course to bo taken by them In regard
TO their employment. or " they choose. TO
them, on pain Of expulsion from their union.
peaooab!y to leave the employ OF theil em-
ploysr because any of the terms OF their
employment arc unsatisfactory.
. Decisions OF the same character by other
Judges are quoted 70 show, that the oonten-
tion OF the union leaders that the unions are
not treated fairly By the rourtn has not tho
alightest Foundation IN saot, }.s & ;.