Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-02-17
s;ne. III. Halter. Are Touched
To The Tune Of
$222, 600.
CRIME IN AMERICA;
LEGAL IN MONARCH
Hatters viii Take Case To
Supreme Court Of
r. U. S.

washington, D. c.. ANY labor
organization in the United States
NAV now be mulcted as the hatter's
Union has been mulcted.
sn.h wereZthe words of Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor. upon being
shown the decision of DANA res a.
gainst the 200 union hat makers OF
Connecticut, who accordingly must
nav D. e. Loewe & Co.. of Danbury,
the sum of $222.0O0 for boycotting
Secretary Morrison drew atten-
.tion 10 the similarity of the attact
mon the hatters to the historical
hlow delivered by the English House.
If Lords against the engineers in the
Taff-Vale decision, when the treas
uries of all English trades organ
izatibns were threatened with .ex-
tinction.
will the American trades unions
follow the example of the English
labor movement? Is there the max
ings of a labor party in this terrible
hammering which the courts OF the
United States are now recklessiy CIV
ing the wage workers of America?
These questions are being frequently
asked by leaders of international I'M
ions now gathered in Washington.
The president of the American
Federation of Labof re-read the tele-
ekam offered him by your represent
alive. and finally authorized the fol-
lowing statement
~ There is the fact. the labor organ
izations brought UNDER the Sherman
antitrust law by the. Interpretation
of the United States Supreme Court.
The voluntary organization OF the
workers govern their personal r1gfss
A labor organization is not organized
for profit or to deal in the products
of labor, it simply undertakes to ala
the men in the protection OF thel1
personal rights.
The courts have decided that such
an organization is organized, not for
Dfoft, but for the bentf1ts OF their
personal rights and interests. comes
under The operations of the Sherman
antitrust law. 1t Is -repugnant to
- the very purposes af the Sherman
antitrust law. l hope and expect
that an appeal will be taken. but, al
ter all, the injury involved is in the
desision of the Supreme Court OF the
United States under which the labor
organizations are brought under the
Sherman antitrust law. which Will
have to be rectified by an act of Con-
gress.
The thing for which the Hatters'
union is mulcted in damages, and
for which any labor organization
may be mulcted. is distinctly leeal
in Germany, and so decided by It's
highest court, and made SO by the
trades disputes act passed by the
British pertinent in 1906. and is al
SO true in nearly every European
continental country. Surely. what is
legal for the working people under
monarchies and Tempires, should not
be illegal in the republic Of the
United States!"
Judge Robert E. De Forrest. OF
counsel for the Hatters' Union. has
announced that the defense will take
the case to the United States Cir
cult Court of Appeals. and to the SUI
preme Court, Of the United States, II
necessary. Attorney De Forest also
offers a serious criticism of trial
Judge Plat for not leaving the facts
IN the case to the jury, instead OF Inn
ting them to deciding the sum Of
damages to be awarded in Loewe q
Co..