The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-03-24

referred by Speaker Cannon to that committee for consideration and re- port, and 1t Is understood that Pres ident Roosevelt will in message to Congress make recommendation concerning 1t. VT.
 There is no information on which to frame a prediction of the failure or success of the bill in the House nor will there be until hearings have been given by the committee. Party leaders today professed to be wholly Ignorant of the details of the bflI and to have only general understanding of its purpose.
 One of the most interesting sections of the bill is that which seeks to re- ifeve organized labor from the suppress siwe effects of the recent Supreme Court decision declaring labor unions to be conspiracies in restraint of trade and therefore unlawful.
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 The bill. broadly speaking aims to restore to unions their right of peace- able existence. including the right to strike. but leaving them still arnena- bie to the Sherman act in the mattef of boycotts and picketing practice.
 The sections is as follows:
 Nothing in said act approved July 2, 1890, or in this act is intended nor shall any provision thereof hereafter be enforced. so as to interfere with. to or restrict any right of employees satisfactory terms for the labor or sat isfactory conditions of employment. or so as to interfere with or to restrict any right of employers for any cause to discharge all or any of their em- ployes or to combine or to contract with each other or with employers, for the purpose of peaeeably obtain ing labor on satisfactory terms"
 Tn October 1907. conference was held at Chicago on the subject of trusts and combinations, under the auspices of the National Civic Feder- ation. This conference was attended by delegates appointed by the Cover nors of almost every State in the Un- ion. and by many important comner- cial, agricultural and labor organiza- tions. At this conference certain res- olutions on the subjects of trusts were adopted. and a committee was appointed to present the resolution to the President and Congress.
 The subcommittee charged with this duty brought about the presen- tation of these resolutions to both Houses of Congress in February by the courtesy of the chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, Senator Elkins in the Senate, and of Colonel Hepburn. chairman of the Com naittee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, in the House. At the time when these resolutions were presented both of these gentleman asked the subcommittee to prepare bill em- bodying the views of those whom they represented.
 The bill so prepared is entitled: "An act to regulate commerce among the several States or with foreign nations, and to amend the act approved July 2. 1890, entitled: "An act to protect trade and commerce against uniaw- ful restraints and monopolies.
 The act which it is proposed to amend is popularly known as the sherman anti-trust law. The bill has been prepared under the auspices of the National Civic Federation. in con- sultation, on the one hand. with the President and other executive officers of the government, and on the other hand, with representatives of the bus mess and railroad interests of the country and of organized labor. The effort has been to prepare bill which in its general scheme would command the support of the President. and which would deal with all interests affected by the Sherman anti-trust law fairly, and, so far as conditions would permit, in the same way.
 summary of the measure thus pre- pared follows herewith.
 summary of the Bill.
 i. The Sherman anti-trust law for- bids all contracts or combinations or conspiracies tn restraint of trade, and any monopoIizing of or attempt to monopolize trade. The first six sec tions of the act deal with the powers of the Government in relation thereto The seventh and last section of the act gives private parties a right to sue and to collect three-foid damages.