Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1908-07-02
FAVORS
FIRM STAND
ON ISSUE
IDEAS TO BE URGED ON
RESOLUTION COMMITTEE

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nett of Ohio Arrives in Denver
to Take Charge of Fight for
Labor Interests.
IBy Morning JOHrnaI SDecici rsasAd wire. l
Denver, July l.What is regarded as
the very latest indication that Mr.. Bry-
an does not contemplate changing his
position on the injunction question to
meet the ideas OF the conservatives
I was brought to town by Frank S. Mo-
nett. republican attorney general from
Ohio from 1896 to 1900. Mr. Monet
was in conference with Mr. Bryan at
Lincoln yesterday, as the result of
which he says he will have Mr. Bry-
ans endorsement in appearing before
the resolutions committee of the con-
vention to state the legal and political
reasons why the injunction plank
should pledge The democratic party to
the amendment of the law in these
three particulars:
First. to prerent the issuing of the
writ in industrial disputes except after
notice to defendants and full hearings;
second, to perilit trial before a Judge
other than the one who issued the
writ, and. third, to allow a jury to be
Summoned in all cases where the al
legged contempt Is committed outside
the presence or the court.
That Mr.. Bryan has heretofore
taken his stand on an injunction plank
containing these elements, is the state
ment today Of Mr.. Monett, and the
fact that Mr.. Bryan requested Mr.. Mo-
nett to urge Neir acceptance by the
reseltss s.t. ki4ie' Is takah by the
Ohioan to mean that Mr.. Bryan will
be satisfied with nothing less
Having recently been the legislative
attorney in Ohio for the Brotherhoods
of Railway Conductors, Engineers and
Firemen, as well as having close con-
tact with labor views through his legal
connection with the miners and brick
makers In the Hooking valley strike of
last February. Mr. MOnett said today
that he informed Mr. Bryan that Mr..
Roosevelts 25O,O00 majority from the
industrial centers In Ohio and 100000
| in Pennsylvania was given because
they believed Roosevelt was with them
particularly on the injunction plank.
This independent" vote, as Mr. Mo-
nett named it today, would surely go
I to an Independent candidate should
one be put in the field, in the event
the democratic party failed to pledge
itself in positive language on this
iquestion. Mr. Monett, however, is of
the opinion that while the labor ele-
ment of the country is asking for no
tice, jury trial and hearing before an
other court, that the question of no
tice is the vital part of the issue. and
that assurance of this much Of the de-
mand by the democrats would be more
nearly satisfactory to labor than is the
declaration of the Chicago platform.
The history of the injunction issue
Mr. Monett said, was what Mr. Bryan
was most anxious should be given the
resolutions committee in detail In
complying with this request. Mr.
Monet said today he contemplated
going fully into the legal history of
the question as well as the political.
| He intends to emphasize that the vital
essential of notice was eliminated from
the law in 1874, without executive au-
thorlty at the hands of n codifying
committee and undoubtedly inadvert-
emily.
The political history of the question
which Mr.. Monet win present to the
committee will bring Secretary Taft
into the case. on this point Mr.. Mo-
nett said today:
In February last Thomas Lewis. ma
tional organizer for the miners organ
izations. wrote Secretary Taft. asking
for his views on the three demands OF
labor on the injunction question-no-
tice, trial by jury and change Of venue.
Mr.. Taft Is on record in response to-
this letter and this response was re-
ceived with great enthusiasm by the
miners of Ohio and Pennsylvania. and
accounts for the Taft delegates from
those districts The response stated
that the secretary was in favor of re-
storing the federal statute as II exist
ed prior to 1874; that he recognized
that as the law now stands an attor-
NY Aoi tVdl illUlHk company Thli-
road company, or other large corpora
tions having industrial complaint
could make such strong ex-parte af-
fidavit, complying with all the neces-
sary and legal requirements as to en-
title him to an immediate injunction
without notice, that there was nothing
left for an honest court to do but COM
lply with the statute and grant the
temporary injunction. This. the sec
retary furthel said, had caused great
Injustice in many Instances to the en-
ployes who had no day in court prior
to the issuing of the Injunction. and
were wholly without knowledge that
Ithe injunction had issued until they
were hailed into court on the contempt
proceedings"
Mr.. Monet appears to be thorough.
Ily impressed with the Importance oi
the injunction issue and predicts thai
it has already become the vital ques-
Ition for the confederation OF the dem.
locratic convention