Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-19
BY IS TO is.
Injunction Plank Adopted After Lively
Struggle.

Chicago, June 1S-The biggest prob
lem before the resolutions committee
of the Republican national convention
that OF the proposed plank in the
platform dealing with the question of
/ the Limitation Of the use Of court in
functions in labor OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
4 disposed of at : A. M. today. when by a
vote Of 81 to 16. with two statest South
Carolina and Lcuisiana) not recorded.
the full committee agreed to the plank.
It was predicted after the vote that
there would be no fight on the matter
on the floor Of the convention when the
full report Of the committee was made
today.
The full committee adopted the sep
arate statehood plank for Arizona and
New Mexico, thus reversing the sub
committees action.
IA At 2.sO A. M. the committee ad-
ojourned.
The meeting of the full committee on
resolutions was held In the Franklin
First" room Of the Autorium Hotel
annex and began at 10 o'clock last
might. 1t was supposed to be strictly
executive and secret and the bulk
OF the discussion was carried on in
comparatively low tones, inaudible a
few feet outside Of the group of COM
mltteemen. but when the much dis
cussed plank relating to the limita-
tion Of court Injunction orders. espe-
ciAlly In labor controversies, was reach
ed, the intensity of feeling which has
marked oil debates on this subject
since the convention began was evil
denced in raised voices and eager at
tention and attempts at secrecy were
forgotten. At the same time the debate
never reached the point of personal
heat or exchange of invective.
=. The Injunction plank was reached in
the full committee a few minutes after
/ A. NJ, with Committeeman McCarter
Of New Jersey opening the fight against
its adoption. Mr.. McCarter, whose
resonant tones filed the hall, declared
that such plank would be reflection
upon the integrity of the court and was
entirely unnecessary. He asked those
IN favor Of It to show q single instance
where If. power of Injunction had
been abused by any court and en-
phasized his remarks by denunciations
Of the stand and demands Of the labor
people.
nearly 10 minutes and during that
time the committee sat apparently UNI
moved and there was no response in
the way Of applause or audible dissent
as he concluded.
Senator Long Of Kansas then took
up the cudgels in behalf of the plank
submitted by the subcommittee. He
also was very emphatic in his remarks.
He said that the wording of the plank.
while not as radical as was proposed
by Mr.. Gompers and several of the Ia
Dor leaders. was nevertheless not a
dodge or a straddie, but was a step for
ward by the Republican party. He de-
clared that an issue confronted the
party and that there would be univer-
sal criticism II something was not done.
He agreed that while the issuance of
injunctions by the courts was. as a rule,
III strict conformity with the laws as
they appear on the statute books. the
planks proposed by the committee
would serve to make the general prac-
tica universal practice throughout the
country.
REPRESENTATIVE Serene E. Payne Of
New II is chairman Of the COM
mite ION, iag4 and AeaNs In the
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