Arizona republican., 1908-06-16
PLATFORM
 REVISION Attack Upon the Anti-ln. junction Plank
It is Believed That It Will Be Eliminated or Greatly Modified.

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 Chicago, June 15.-F'ive of the most important blanks of the republican platform formulated by President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft and drafted by Wade H. Ellis and now in possession of the prospective members of the resolutions committee, for con- sideration, have been given out. They are the blanks relating to the trusts. anti-injunctien, railroad rates, tariff revision and the currency The fight over the ntiinjunction plank promis- es to be one of the features of the con- vention. The preliminary skirmish on this plank in fact has been waged with intensity from the moment the provis- ions of the plank became known. Speaker Cannon directed the fight against the plank throughout the day from his quarters at the Union League club. Just what progress has been made by the friends of the opponents of the provisions is one of the ques- tions which will not be ascertalned un- til the plank is finally passed upon in the committee.
 MT. Hopkins, slated as chairman of the platform committee, is known to favor the elimination of the plank from the platform. Failing in this, it is un- derstood that he will favor much more mild expression on the question. It was reported to Mir Cannon today ! that the delegations from New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois had formally declared | against the injunction plank and ef- ! forts to obtain similar action by other delegations gave promise of success. 1 A compromise measure which the op- iponents will urge if it becomes evident that pronouncement on the subject | will be included in the platform. has | been determined upon. It will be a simple statement that the party be- lieves that federal court procedure should be so amended as to provide against arbitrary orders being made by the court, but at the same time noth- ing should be done to interfere with | the authority of the court over it's own orders. Those who are arguing for the elimination or amendment of the pro- vision maintain that their policy. if i followed out will give the party many
 
 declaration. For no matter what the republican party declares on the sub | ject, the democratic party will surely l. go them one better" was the way it was expressed. From this viewpoint it is claimed that it is better to say noth- ing than to put forth a weak or mean ingless declaration.
 i The trust plank which first aroused some opposition, is now understood to i be acceptable to all elements of the party. The explanation is that upon first reading, the plank seemed by ex- emption extended to labor unions and farmers associations to free them from
 responsibility under the law This is not the intention and the language of the plank upon closer scrutiny passed as unobjectionable. The plank in- tends to pledge the party to establish affirmatively the doctrines that a far mers' union or labor union, in fact any duly organized aggregation of in- dividuals, is not, from the simple fact of its organization and existence, il- legal This declaration was declared necessary to avoid the conflict of opin- ion said to exist on the point. Recent decisions have been interpreted by some labor leaders as well as by DOT ton of the legal fraternity as estab- fishing the doctrines of illegality in the existence of such organizations. While 1t was the intention of the framers of the plan to clear up that point, it was decidedly not their inten- tion. so it was explained to go farther or to the extent of declaring exemption of such organizations for overt illegal acts. In this connection, it is not to be held an illegal act for labor organiZa- tion to fix a price for which the labor of it's members may be sold. Bue it is held to be illegal for such organiza- tions to enforce a fixed price for labor through a boycott, blacklist or other methods of force.
 1 Opposition to the tariff plank seems to have disappeared absolutely and the pledged itself to tariff revision at a certain time along indicated lines. As to the railroad rate plank the op- position will be keen on declaring in favor of the proposition of federal sup ervision of the issuance of stocks and bonds. But this phase of the fight has yet remained under cover.
 The currency plank pledges the party to continue a development of the subject, and the pledge, it will be claimed, is already in process of fulfillment in the existence of the cur rency commission.
 Important conferences on the plat form situation today embraced. first that held this morning between Messrs. Cannon and Hopkins, follow ed by a four hours conference in the Auditorium Annex, participated in by