Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-07-09

| ana the petition Tor permanent In
junction upon which such temper
airy restraining order has been is
sued should be heard by the court
Issuing the same within a reasona-
bic time-say not TO exceed a week
or Decentralization the date when
the order was issued. II is worth
considering whether 1t would not
| give greater popular confidence i'm
! the impartiality OF sentences for
contempt IT IL was required that the
issue should be decided by another
judge than the one issuing the in
functions, except where the con-
tempt is committed In the presence
of the court or other case OF urgen-
cy."
Surely he and his party eulogists
forgot that he had but a few months
before advised congress that at is
worth considering whether it would
not give greater popular confidence
In the impartiality OF sentences for
contempt if 1t was required that the
issue should be decided by another
Judge than the one issuing the in
Junction Ia
There has not been session of
congress in welve years at which
the Republican party could not,
have passed a law prescribing. de-
! ming and regulating the issuance
OF injunctions and providing for fair
| trials in contempt cases. Yet moth
Ing has been done to give the wage
Garner fair treatment and less than
nothing is offered Co him in the Chi
| cago deliverance. The meaningless
generalities of its Injunction plank
are an insult to the intelligence of
those who demand reasonable and
substantial legislation to prevent the
| admitted abuse OF this judicial pro-
| cess.
Again the president said to con-
| gress:
| twenty-five years ago, by act of
June 20, 1886, trades unions were
recognized by law, and the right of
| laboring people to combine for law
full purposes was formally recog-
nized. this right including combina-
| ton for mutual protection of the in
iividual rights OF the workmen in
| he prosecution of their trade or
| trades, and in the act OF June -.
S9S, strikes were recognized as le-
gal in the same provision that for
babe participation in or instigation
Of force or violence against persons
| " property, or the attempt to pre-
vent Others from working, by vio-
! ence, threat or intimidation. The
business man must be protected in
| lerson and property and so must
he farmer and the wage worker,
and as regards all alike, the rights
| IF peaceful combination for all law
| 'ul purposes should be explicitly
| recognized.
| And in still another message he
| said:
| at must be remembered that 8
| preliminary injunction In labor
case, it granted without adequate
| proof may often settle
\ he dispute between the parties, and
| therefore If improperly granted may
TO irreparable wrong. Yet there
| ire many judges who assume a mat
.er of course granting of a prelim-
| mary injunction to be the ordinary
| and proper judicial disposition of
| such cases, and there have un-
| ioubtedly been fragrant wrongs
committed by judges in connection
with labor even within the last few
1 years. ."
1t is important to note that the
act of June 20, 1886, was passed at
| the first session OF the first congress
that met under the first Democratic
| administration after the civil war
| and there labor received It's first
| recognition from the government.
| One Republican administration had
succeeded another for twenty-four
| years. and not one act was passed in
| the interest OF labor or in acknowl-
edgment Of its right to fair and
equal treatment. The Republicans
enacted a tariff which enhanced the
price OF products that labor had
made and capital owned and they
pretended TO do this with a view
Of securing for labor higher wages.
What that gave, however, was to the
capitalist and they trusted him to
divide That the increased profits
Of protected employers have made
them able to pay the laboring man
higher wages no one can doubt, but
lit remains for the saving grace OF
Almighty God so TO touch their
hearts as to make them willing TO
pay the higher wages Among the
contributions that went TO make up
the monument that this great MAJ
| Grover Cleveland bulldad In the re-
spect and affection OF his country
men, few are more striking than his
almost instant recognition, as evil
denced By this act OF 1886. Of the
sane and just demands Of labor on