The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-02
INJUNCTIONS AND MIR. BRYAN F. 5. Monnett Outlines
 the Plank. HAS SEEN THE NEBRAsKAN Would Frame Section to Satisfy
 Labor Vote. Three Amendments Te TAe Law w1s Be Proposed end They Have
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HAS SEEN THE NEBRAsKAN

Denver. coth, July 1--Whaf Is re- gardsd as the very latest Indication that Mir. Bryan does not contemplate changing his position on the Injunction question to meet the faeas Of she con- aervatives was brought to town today oy Frank s. Monnett. Republican At torney General of Ohio from tsse ke 1900.
 Mir Monnett was in conference with Mr. Bryan at Lincoln yesterday as the result Of which he says he win have Mr. Bryan's endorsement In appearink before the Resolutions Committee Of the convention to state the legal and political reasons why the injunction plank should pledge the Democratic party to an amendment of the law in these three particulars:
 First. To prevent the issuing of the writ in industrial disputes except after notice to defendants and full hearing.
 Second. To. permit trial sefors a judge other than the one who issusd the writ.
 Third. To allow a jury to be sum- moned on all cases where the legal contempt is committed outside tue presence of the court.
 That Mfr. Bryan has heretofors taken his stand ou an injunction plank cons taining these clements. fa the atate- rinent today Of Mir. Monnett. and the fact that Mfr. Bryan requested Mfr. Monnett to urge thair acceptance by the Resolutions Committee. is taken by the ohioan to mean that Mir. Bryan will be satisfied with nothing less.
 Having recently been the legislative attorney in Ohio for the brotherhoedA of railway conductors. engineers ana flrenen. as well as having close con- tact with labor views through hfs legal connections with the miners and brick makers i'd the Hooking Valley strike Of last February. Mfr. Monnett said he- day that he informed Mr. Bryan that Roossvsits 5s.ece majority frei1 n ths ass sn- s Pennsylvania, wss given because labor believed thRf President Roosevelt was with them. particularly on the fn~ junction demand.
 This Independent vote" as Mfr Mcn- nett named tt today. would. he said. surely go to af inaependeut candidate should one be put in inc field In the event the Democratic Party failed 70 place itself. in positive language on this question. Mir. Monnett. however, is of the opinion that while the label element of the country is asking for notice. jury trial and hearing before another court, that fhe question of nn~ tice is the vital part of the issue and that assurance of this much of the de- rnand by the Democrats would he more nearly satisfactory to labor than ia ths declaration of the Chicago platform
 The history of the Injunction, said Mir Monnett. was what Mfr. Bryan was most anxious should be given the rese- lutions committee in detail. Tn com plying with this request Mir Mnnuetr said today he contemplated going ful- Iy into the legal history of the question as well as the political. Te intends te emphasize that the vital essential Of notice was eliminated from the law in 1897 without legislative authority at the hands of codifying committees and undoubtedly inadvertently.
 The political question which MT Monnett will give to the commiftea will bring Mr. Taft into the question. On this point Mir Monnett said today:
 ssIn February last Thomas Lewis national organizer for the miners orr Banigatfons. wrote Secretary Taft ask ing for his views on the three demands of labor on the injunction question. notice, trial by jury and change of va~ nue Mir. Taft is on record in responae to this letter and this response was received with great enthusiasm by the miners of Ohio and Eennsyfvania and accounts for the Taft delegates from this district.
 '"The response stated that the sacre- tary was in favor of restoring the fed- eral statute as 1t existed prior to 1874.' that he recognized that, as the law now stands. an attorney for a large corporation having an industrial corn plaint. could make, such a strong sx parte affidavit complying with all ths necessary and legal requirements as to entitle him to an immediate inJunc- tion without notice; that there was nothing left for an honest court to do but comply with the statute and grant the temporary injunction. This. the secretary further wrote. had caused great injustice In many instances to tbe employees who had no say in court pri- or to the Issuing of the injunction ana were wholly without knowledge that the injunction had been issued until they were hauled into court in con- tempt proceedings"
 Mir. Monnett appears to be l..oronGhiy Impressed with the importance of the injunction issue and predicts that it has already become the vital question for the consideration of the democrat- ic convention.