Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-09
LABOR WILL APPEAL
TO SUPREME COURT
Gompers' Contempt Case and
Boycott Case Both to Be
Carried Up by A. F. L.
ACTION RECOMMENDED
BY EXECUTIVE COUNCIL
Courts or Congress Must Safeguard
Fundamental Rights"
INJUNCTION WRIT DENOUNCED
Reports on Industrial Education,
Electrical Controversy, Tubercu-
losis Crusade and Ferrer's
Execution.
Courts or Congress Must Safeguard
Fundamental Rights"
INJUNCTION WRIT DENOUNCED

TORONTO. Ont, November o.
The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor I'm
its report TO the convention today
recommended that an appeal
he taken to the United States Su-
preme Court from the Jail SEN
tences imposed on President
Gompers. Vice President Mitchell
and Secretary Morrison. for con-
tempt In the Bucks Stove and
Range Company boycott case.
The council recommends also that an
appeal be taken in the original injunction
case. the alleged violation of which re-
suited in the contempt proceedings against
the three labor leaders.
Text of Report.
The report. presented to the convention
by First Vice President James Duncan OF
the Granite Workers Union of Quincy,
Mass. says:
We recommend that an appeal be taken
from the decision rendered in both the
original injunction as well as the con-
tempt case growing out of it. We cannot
permit these decisions to 60 unchallenged.
They affect fundamental rights. and
either the courts or Congress must safe
guard them
We again enter our protest against
the application of the writ of injunction
in labor disputes (unless where an in
junction would lie if there were no labor
disputes). We hold that the ordinary
use OF the injunction writ in contentious
between workers and employees Is an un-
-
and liberties Of the workers. and is in
tended, and its influence used, to in
umidate workers, especially when they
are engaged in a struggle for improved
working conditions. 1t is a fact, how
ever, that such injunctions are issued"
Status Of Seceders.
In the matter of the controversy of the
secession of a faction OF the electrical
workers the executive council gives an
exhaustive report. Under section 1.
article NJ of the constitution, central
and state bodies chartered by the Amer
from admitting to or retaining in men,
bership seeding organizations.
The report says:
After exerting every means at our
command to have state and central bodies
comply with the federation constitution
eIeC-
trical workers. there was no alternative
but to revoke the charters OF the follow
ing state and federal bodies for failure
TO comply with the constitutions: Iowa
federation of labor Ohio state fedora
tion of labor and the central bodies of
Cedar Rapids. Iowa; Davenport. Iowa;
Detroit, Mich; Duluth. Mimi. Albany. n.
": Hornell. y. Y; jamestown, n. Y;
Cleveland. Ohio: Newark. Ohio: Toledo.
Ohio: Connellsville. Pa: Dallas. Tex;
Sherman. Tex; Ogden, Utah: Everett,
Wash: st. Louis. Mo-: Atlantic City, n.
j., and Logansport, Ind
The following central bodies have
since complied with the constitution and
their charters have been restored: Log
ansport, ST. Louis, Albany and James
town.
ON the subject OF old-age pensions.
Representative William b. Wilson, one
ot the miners delegates, has drawn a
bill To be presented at the next session of
Congress. This bin is submitted with
approval by the executive council to the
convention.
Industrial Education.
Referring to the work OF the special
committee on industrial education the
report save:
Organized labor favors that plan of
industrial training which will give our
boys and girls such training as will help
them to advance after they are in in
dustry. We believe that as much atten-.
tion should be given TO the proper edu-
cation of those who work AT our indus
try as is now given to those who pre-
pare to enter professional and manager
Ial careers"
The council reports extensions of the
idea of cooperation between the labor
unions and the farmers organizations,
and concludes by saying:
Our efforts should be continued to
promote the growth of the harmony now
existing between the farmers unions Of
the country and the American Federation
of Labor and all the affihated bodies of
both
Crusade on Tuberculosis.
Reporting upon the WORK OF the fedora
tion in the crusade against tuberculosis.
the council urgently recommends the
adoption OF a resolution demanding laws
or regulations prohibiting the sale OF
secondhand clothing or second hand bot
ties unless they have been cleansed and
renovated under the direction and super
vision OF a representative of board of
health.
In conclusion the executive council
says:
We desire to lay the greatest en-
phasis upon the primary facts that the
great central thought and intent of the
American Federation OF Labor is an i'm
proved standard of life and a more in
tense loyalty and devotion TO the funda-
mental and original spirit OF liberty OF
thought act and expression TO all our
people"
Ferrer's Execution Denounced.
Concerning the execution OF Francisco
Ferrer. the report says:
THE execution Of Francisco Ferrer of
Spain has aroused a worldwide sense
OF Indignation and protest. AT our meet
ing held at headquarters shortly after his
axecution adopted resolutions ex.
pressive OF organized labor's protest for
the cause OF free speech. free press and
free education. which has found in Fran
cisco Ferrer another martyr.
I'VE recommend that this convention
indorse the preambles and resolutions
adopted upon the subject
The recommendation was applauded BY
o number OF the delegates.