The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-24
WHAT LABOR IS
LIKELY TO GET
Bill introduced Granting the
Right to Strike at
Any Time.
NO PICKETS; NO BOYCOTT
REGISTRATION NECESSARY TO
OBTAIN THE BENEFITS.

representatives or capital and labor tO
relieve the stringency of the Sherman
antitrust law, was introduced in the
house today by Representative Hep
burn of Iowa, chairman of the commit
tee on interstate and foreign commerce.
II was referred by Speaker Cannon TO
that committee for consideration and
report, and ii is understood that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will, in a message 10
congress, make recommendation con-
corning it.
Too Early for Predictions.
There is no information on which to
frame a prediction of the failure o..
success of the bin in the house. nor will
there be until the hearings have been
given in committee. Party leaders to-
day. professed to be wholly ignorant of
the details of the bill and to have only
a general understanding Of it's pur-
pose.
One of the most interesting sections
OF the federation bill is that which
seeks TO relieve organized labor from
the suppressive effects of the recent
supreme court decision declaring that
labor unions are conspiracies in re-
straint of trade and therefore unlaw-
ful- The bill. broadly speaking. sairns
10 restore the unions their right of
peaceable existence, including the rignt
TO strike, but leaving them still amen
able to the Sherman act in the matter
of boycotts. picketing and similar CO.
erclve practices. The section is as Sci
lows:
Divine Right to Strike.
Nothing in said act. approved July
2, 1880, or in this act, is intended. nor
shall any provision thereof hereafter
be enforced, so as to interfere with, or
TO restrict any right of employees to
strike for any cause or to combine or
to contract with each other or with
employers for the purpose of peaceablv
obtaining from employers satisfactory
terms for their labor or satisfactory
conditions of employment, or so as to
interfere with or to restrict any right
OF employers for any cause to as
charge all or any of their employees. or
to combine or to contract with ea,so
other or with employees for the nun
pose of peaeeably obtaining labor on
satisfactory terms"i
Registration Necessary.
The bill introduced today does not al
tempt TO change the legal status of
anything condemned as i'm restraint of
trade under the Sherman antitrust act.
but it aims to provide a way by which
under certain conditions, combinations
and contracts in restraint of trade that
are not Unreasonable may be saved
from attack. The benefits and immu-
mites offered by the proposed bill there
fore will be in the main confined to
those who register in accordance with
the terms IF the bill.
Common CARRIERS nav ,.oo~;-t... III,
the interstate commerce commission.
and all others with the commissioner
or corpora tons in the department of
commerce and labor. 1t is proposed to
amend section I of the Sherman anti
trust act by cutting out the provision
for three-fold damages, reducing the
amount that can be collected 10 simpIe
damages, as under the common law.
Everybody, whether registered or NOT
viii get the benefit of this provision.
Beth corporations for profit and hav-
ing capital stock. and also corporations
not for profit and not having capital
stock. may register, but neither are