Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-09
EXECUTIVE couN!
GIL RECOMMENDS CARRYING
CONTEMPT CASE HIGHER.
APPEAL ALSO SUGGESTED
IN INJUNCTION SUIT
Suspension of Iowa and Ohio Fedora
tions Sustained in Councils Report
Charged With Refusal to Obey Con-
stitution-Protest Against Resort to
lnjunctions.

Toronto, Nov 9.-The executive
council of the American Federation Of
Labor in its report to the convention
today, recommended thai an appeal be
taken to the United States supreme
court from the Jail sentences imposed
on Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison for
contempt in the Buck Stove and Range
Company boycott case.
The council recommends also that an
appeal be taken in the original injunc
ton case. the alleged violation of
which resulted in the contempt pro-
ceedings against the three labor lead
ers. The report also protests against
the issuance of an injunction in labor
disputes.
Report On Secession.
Concerning the controversy over the
secession of a faction of electrical
workers, the executive council gives an
exhaustive report. After citing GER
port says:
after eXerting every means at our
command to have the state and central
bodies comply with the federation con-
stitution and suspend the seeding
unions of electrical workers, there was
no alternative but to revoke the char
ters of the state and federal bodies for
failure to comply with the constitu-
ton"
1t then gives the names of the sus-
pended bodies, which include the Iowa
State Federation of Labor; the Ohio
State Federation of Labor and the
central bodies of Cedar Rapids, and
Davenport, Iowa.
Report on injunctions says:
Report on lnjunctions.
I'VE recommenr an appeal to be talk
en- from the decision rendered in both
the original injunction as we'll as the
contempt case growing out of 1t. We
can not permit these decisions to &C
unchallenged. They affect Fundamental
rights. and either the courts or con-
gress must safeguard them.
I'VE again enter our protest against
the application of writ of injunction
in labor disputes, unless where an in
junction would lie if there We're no
labor disputes. We hold the ordinary
use of the injunction writ in conten-
tions between workers and employees is
unwarranted interference with the
rights and liberties of workers, and is
intended and its influence used to in
timidate workers, especially when they
are engaged in a struggle for improved
working conditions. 1t is fact. how
ever, that such injunctions are issuel
To Present Age Pension Bill.
On the subject of old age pensions
Congressman Wilson, who is one OF
the miners delegates, has drawn bill
to be presented at the next session of
congress- This bill is submitted by the
executive council with the approval of
the convention.
Referring to the work of the special
committee on industrial education, the
report favors a plan of industrial
training which will give boys and girls
such training as will help them adj
vance after they are in industry.
The reports also favor harmony and
the extension of the idea of co-opera-
ton between labor unions and farmers
organizations. In conclusion the coun-
Gil says:
1--WE desire to lay the greatest en-
phasis upon the primary fact that the
great central thought and intent of the
American Federation of Labor is ar
improved standard of life and more
| intense loyalty and devotion to the
fundamental and original spirit Of lib
erty of thought and expression to al
| the pepole."