The sun., 1908-06-18

an appetrsr Tor brsaIfast or ~ dessert
treatment and we are going 10 have 70.
You might 20 well destroy the organizations
Of labor ss to destroy thar methods o.
activity
cEAss.s MxanzsAnarirrAT1oN.
Mr.. Gompers declared that the state
ment made before the committee yester-
day In regard 70 tho small number Of In
junction oasee which the American Fedora
tion Of labor had been ablo TO produce on
which TO base its olaim that the power
OF injunction had been abused was know
Ing Misrepresentation. James A. Emory
OF New York. general counsel Of the Ma
tional Association OF Manufacturers, was
the man who had made the statement
which Mr.. 0ompers had characterised
as Misrepresentation. He was in the
committee room when Mr.. Gcmpers made
his charges and he stepped forward at
once and demanded to be heard. The
committee agreed to hear him later.
Then Mr.. Gompers resumed. declaring
that thore was on file with the Committee
on the Judiciary Of the House Of Repre-
sentatives. twenty-three casce in which
the power TO issue injunctions had
been misused In labor litigation. That
record. he said. had been compiled with q
view TO illustrating the various abuses
and did not represent the actual number
OF suoh cases. and the statement made
before the subcommittee to the contrary
was misleading and known to be mislead-
ing by the man who made it.
Mr.. Emery declared that his statement
10 the committee yesterday OF the number
OF cases in which contention was made
that the power to issue injunotions had
been abused was taken from the informa-
ton furnished to the House Judici-
ary Committee. In his statement to the
committee. said Mr. Emery, Mr.. Gompers
had given onlys eighteen cases in fifteen
years. while Mr.. Emerys record. as he
told the committee on resolutions yester-
day was fifteen cases in five years.
Il have never heard the right to issue
wrts OF injunction complained OF when
1t dissolved the pipe trust and the coal
trust said MIR. Emery.
STATE COURT INJUNcrIoNs.
One OF the committeeman asked Mr..
Emery IL there were many cases Of alleged
abuse by State courts Of the power to issue
injunctions in labor cases. Mr. Emery
said he had examined into the question
and had found comparatively few instances
OF complaints that there had been abuse.
He gave Massachusetts, as an example.
A. small number OF injunctions involving
labor had been issued by the Massa chusetts
courts.
This brought yioe-President Keefe Of
the labor federation to his feet. de
roared at Mr.. Emery that he had picked
State where the relations between capital
and labor were extremely peaceful.
You pick the State" retorted Emery.
Pennsylvania or New Jersey" answered
Keefe. ~
:. How many cases in Pennsylvania
Emery queried.
Legion said Keefe.
How many?" persisted Emery.
You tell how many" snapped keefe.
Here Chairman Hopkins interfered and
the colloquy ended.
To question by one of the committee
men Mr.. Gompers replied that what labor
wanted was that the power to issue writs
Of injunction should not apply to laoor
disputes when the injunction would not be
issued il no labor dispute existed.
A representative Of the Illinois Manu-
factuTers Association told the committee
did not look like good politics. He said
that his association asked for a good sound
Republican platform without INCORPORATING
too many issues about which there was
great difference of opinion among Re-
puhicsns.
The full committee on resolutions adopted
the report OF the subcommittee, which
reported the plank recommending anlamend-
ment to the Sherman anti-trus law in favor
of reasonable combinations Of capital.
The full committee. after some protest
from Representative Fordney of Michigan,
adopted a Philippines tariff plank which
Mr. Fordney regarded as too liberal.
plank indorsing the postal savings
bank scheme of Postmaster-G General Meyer
and plank approving the Aldrich-Vree-
land CURRENCY bill as a temporary measure
to prevent future financial pancs were
adopted. as also plank in favor OF tariff
revision.