The wageworker., 1908-10-10
THE LABOR DECISIONS OF JUDGE William H. TAFT

are often able all of them to obtain prices for
labor than dealing sngy with rich employees be-
the necessity of the single employe may compel
him to accept any price that is offered
@ noble deliverer o, wise and able champion of the
rights of men!
Not until Judge Taft judcially decided these points,
and made them the magma charta of labor did
that could do better by organizing did
realize that had right to organize OF course,
the fact that did organize thousand years
before Judge Taft born does not the other
fact that it Judge Taft who discovered that had
right to organize. But, somehow other, have
bees going to Jail for it frequently since Judge Taft
granted the S'magna charta'' than did before.
The whole argument of Frederick N. Judson is the
argument of who imagines that he is talking to
lot of numbsuls who will eagerly swallow kind OF
dope spooned them by member of the legal fra
terny. He utterly fails mention the fact that the
very decisions which he describes being beneficial to
organized labor have been used for the basis of
decision in the last fifteen years that has progressively
hampered the work of trades unionism until today a
trades union stands convicted Of being trust in restraint
of trade is the kind of freedom that the
Indians offered their prisoners when they let the
prisoners run the gauntlet, the kind OF free
DOM that the witch hunters to suspecs-f they
walked the water they were witches and must be
burned but if they sank and drowned they
innocent
In the Phelan contempt Judge Taft laid down a
principle which, if maintained will render every trades
union inocuous breeze This is the prn-
cipe that adhered to in the Danbury Hatters
the drect interference with interstate commerce idea
Under that principle it would be impossible to secure
redress of by strike. All that the employer
against whom strike is waged would have to do would
be and then sold of the product
of his factory another presto the strikers
would be restraining interstate commerce
''The Magma Charta Of Organized Labor!''
Do Taft and Judson think union pack of
fools Or do Taft and Judson just talk foolshy for the
fun Of it9
Since Judge Taft s kindly granting Of his magna
charta of organized labor have been restrained from
accumuating funds pay strike benefits We have been
restrained from paying strike benefits. Our preacher
friends have been restrained from praying for i'm
mortal souls We have been restrained from consulting
among ourselves with view to mutual help. We have
been restrained from notifying another that certain
firms unfrendly to We have been restrained
from using the United States mails for educational pur
poses. We have been restrained from making social
visits We have been restrained from feeding hungry
brethren We have been jailed for daring exercise
the rights guaranteed by the constitution Our property
has been conscated because dared rights
that have been recognized valid rights from the days
of Tuba Cain to the days Of Judge William Howard Taft
sons which declared Arthur and Sargent be conspira
tors and which sent Phelan to Jail the testimony of
hired spy 'the charta of organized abor'
The workngmen who believe what Judge Taft says
about his friendship for labor would readily believe that
the less his weekly wage the provisions he buy
for his wife and babies