The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-22

- BRYAN. and o Mr.. TalI snoui Dc eHcteo rHeSpoenU . e~
HvH United States.
Iva will devote myself today and Saturday to discussing tbs
attitude of the Republican party and the Republican candidate OF the
on side and the attitude of the Democratic party and of the Demo-
ouao candidate O the other, toward the wage-earners of the United
States.
When an employer. whether a corporation o a privaf 'noi"sOA'
endeavors to cut the wages of the working man; n when In worA'ne
nov erdsavor to secure a proper reward TO his work, commensurate
- -. va,ue Of his work. the workingman's only remedy the only means
he has to enforce his demand. is to strike work. and SO stop n opera
ton of the employer and cut down the income which the employer gains
IRON the operation of labor, until the employer meets ne demand OIL
labor until the employer is willing TO fairly share with labor his income
which labor makes possible.
1t is true, the strike not only Injuries N empower ut 'o empo'oo
<s well, and often interferes with the operations Of many branches of
trade that have nothing to do with the dispute between n employer
and he employee. Those results of the strike are to be depiored, but If
there ire n other means but the strike to enforce the demands OF
labor II is the business of the statesman to discover it and tic apply It.
We might, if we would copy the New Zealand plan. but W have not
tried to do that, and the workmen have only the strike to rely on. When
the worEnen strike work, the employer endeavors o secure other men
to Ill heir places. The wokmen use their powers Of argument to pre-
ven those men filling their places and interfering with the succes Of
the strike. Then the employer goes to court, and on ex parte afhdaSits
secures an Injunction restraining the workmen from doing various things.
the doing of which is guaranteed every IA by the Constitution of the
United states, including the use Of arguments to persuade the new
Corners from interfering with the strike; that is the right Of free speech.
To- &c see wba banpens her Som of the strikers speak tic te strike
breakers, and perhaps persuade them to quit, or perhaps some news
49, eo aa.ona 80 tne strke- eak what happens then? why. the
employer, or omeone acting for him, goes before the Judge who granted
the injunction and IN e parte afdavits secures a order recitng that
the strikers wi sinpl INDUCED in HI right of rec speech Is guaran-
ted by the Constitution, are decreed by the same Judge to be in con-
tempt of court, and ire committed t. Jail at the pleasure of the court
Vow that very thing has happened right here in these United States
not in Russia, but in the United States. 1t is no fairy story-tt is a recital
of actual fact. H
There Is now, at this time, a ae of that kind pending in the su-
preme Court of the District of Columbia in the case of the Bucks
Stove and Range Company against Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
Frank Morrison, of the American Federation of Labor. Those men Are
charged with contempt of court because they included the Bucks Stove
and Range works o the published Observation-Disclosures list of the
Federation of Labor, with having commented on the judges decision In
the Federahonfst, and me of them, Mr. Mitchell, with having presided
over a meeting at which a resolution ws passed continuing the boycott
o. the Bucks Stove and Range Works. That case is now pending in the
FEEDER Court of the District of Olumba n tran as 1t may seem,
those men are to be tried before the very Judge who issued the order.
and tried without a jury, and that Judge may, If he will, commit those
men to jail. That ae was set down to be heard by the court Septem-
petitioners, the Bucks Stove and Range Company, made al application
for an examiner to take testimony. The attorneys for the respondents
objected srenuouay. but the Judge allowed the application against the
earnest protest Of the respondents, thus carrying the as over for two
months.
Here is what the New York Sun Of September TO- 1908, said about
the success of the application for more TING:
This will carry the q beyond election day and is q great relief
TO the Republican national campaign managers who have held several
conferences v the matter in Washington and New York, and even
secured the cooperation of two of the shareholders of the Bucks Stove
and Range Company in St Louis in their efforts to compose the diff
ferences and induce James Van Cleave, president of the company, to
withdraw or postpone the petition until after election. The threw
a frst-cass scare into the leaders, who did not conceal their fears Of the
effect on the campaign of putting Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and