Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-11-08
GOMPERS
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the spirit of liberty and the laws
of justice and right which makes
nation great.
1T was generally expected that
the court of appeals of the District
of Columbia would hand down its
decision early in October, 1909 In
deed, it was to meet the issue, what
ever it might be, that / was careful
to be within the jurisdiction of the
court when the decision would be
handed down. The decision was rem
dered Tuesday, November 2-that is,
on election day throughout the coun-
try.
Il repeat and emphasize this fact
that the doctrine that the citizen
must WELD obedience to every order
of the court, Notwithstanding that
order transcends inherent, natural
human rights guaranteed by the con-
stitution four country is vicious
and repugnant to liberty and human
freedom and that it is the duty, the
imperative duty, to protest.
"Out of this attempt to seat the
representatives of the men of labor
believe will come good. / know
that the people of our country and
the labor movement will be found
united in patriotic protest against
curtailment of liberties for which our
forefathers struggled in order that
we mmight be free.
Congress has thus far failed to
pass any amendment to the Sherman
antitrust law, relieving the labor or
ganizations from the operations of
that law as interpreted by the SUI
preme court of the United States in
the suit of Loewe e Co, hat manu-
facturers of Danbury, Conn, against
the United Hatters of North America
for threefold damages claimed by
Loewe-that is, $24O,000. Though
it is true that since this decision has
been rendered few suits have been
instituted against organized labor
under the provisions of the new in
depreciation placed upon the law, yet
it is also true that every labor organi-
zation and every individual member
of the organization are menaced by
the present status Take away the
right and opportunity of the workers,
the masses of the people, to associate
themselves for. their common pro-
lection against oppression whether
by king or industrial potentate; curb
the power of the workers, the people,
for effective protest and new era
of blighted life will have been in
The possibility of such
a condition of affairs American work
ers must not only protest but they
must make that protest effective and
complete. In all times and under
all forms of government, wherever
slavery existed, the workers were
the slave class. And particularly un-
der modern industrial conditions with
concentration if from the
workers is filched by government the
right oassociate peacefully and vol
and in their association and
to exercise the natural,
normal functions of such organiza-
tions to protect their rights and in
terests against greed, avarice and
Overbearing tyranny, then the first
of slavery have been in
jected into our lives and futures.
"Injunctions: We ask the siXtieth
congress for relief from the abuse
and misuse of the writ of Injunction;
we ask for a restoration of the an
cient right of trial by jury so that
the people may be safeguarded from
the absolutism of judicial tyranny;
but in spite of all hitherto accepted
rules of procedure and of evidence,
one man, a judge presiding in ali
equity court, may disregard all such
established methods and absolutely
set his own opinion as a finality in