The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-21
AND INJUNCTION
 LIMITATION LEGISLATION

Ct@xecutive Committee, Federation of
 Labor.)
 To the Officers and Members of Dr.
 ganized Labor:
 Dear Sirs and Brothers The most favorable opportunity for the success fuI passage of antitrust and injunc- tion limitation legislation will accur when Congress convenes in Decem- Der for consideration of general legts- lation. We feel this to be true for the following reasons:
 First. Because tariff and currency legislation will be disposed of by that time.
 Second: The Democratic party now in power clearly and emphaticalIy de- clared in it's Denver platform of 1903 of 1912, that it was in favor of the following legislation limiting the use of the writ of injunction:
 Questions of judicial practice have arisen, especially in connection with industrial disputes. We believe that the parties to all judicial proceedings should be treated with rigid impartial ity, and that injunctions should not be issued in any case in which an in- Junction would not issue if no indus trial disputes were involved.'
 The Democratic party also declared itself in favor of the right of or ganization among wage-earners and producers in the following clear and explicit declaration:
 The expanding organization of in- dustry makes it essential that there should be no abridgment of the right of the wage-earners and producers to organize for the protection of wages and the improvement of labor condf- tfons, to the end that such labor or ganizations and their members should not be regarded as illegal combina- tions in restraint of trade.'
 The PrOPrRSSiUa nartV it's 1912 platform, made the following declara- ton in behalf of injunction linita- ton:
 we believe that the issuance of in- functions in cases arising out of labor disputes should be prohibited when such injunctions would not apply when no labor disputes existed-''
 The Progressive party also declar- ed in favor of the organization of the workers in the following c1ear-cut ex- pression:
 We favor the reorganization of the workers, men and women, as a means of protecting their interests and of promoting their progress"
 The present Sixty third) Congress has already placed itself on record as being opposed to prosecution of the organizations of the workers under the antitrust appropriation section of the Sundry Civil bill by enacting the following provisos in that measure:
 RrOV1deQ, however, that no part or this money shall be expended in the prosecution of any organization or in dividua1 for entering into any com- bination Or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, the shorten ing of hours, or bettering the condi- ton of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof not in itself un- lawful.
 Provided further, that no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products or associations of far mers firm cooperating or organizing in the effort to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products
 President Wilson signed the sundry Civil bill, which contained the above provisos.
 By the above action. in an appro- priation bill, the Sixty third Congress has practically declared itself in fa- vor of substantive legislation in be- half of the inherent rights of the workers and producers to organize for the production of their industrial in terests.
 On April 7, 1913. Representative Charles L. Bartlett, of Georgia, in- troduced a bill known as H. B. 1873, and on April Is, 1913 Senator Angus tus O. Bacon, of Georgia, introduced bill, s. 927, which is identical to the Bartlett bill, and both are for the purpose of making lawful agreements between empoyes and 1aborers and persons engaged in agriculture or hor- ticrHure, and to limit the issuance of injunctions in certain cases, and for other purposes.
 The Rochester Convention, in No- vember, 1912, by unanimous vote, de- clared that the BartIett-Bacon bill would, in the main, accomplish the purpose for which the American Fed T.ah +riG and recommended that the Executive
 
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