Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-09-16
Industrial Commission
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OF the police was widespread. He
adopted 4 policy of not only permit
1 ting public meetings at an places
where traffic and the public conven
fence would not be interfered with
but instructing the police to protect
speakers from molestation; as a re.
suit the rioting entirely ceased, the
street meetings became more orderly
and the speakers were more re.
Istrained in their utterances."
i To remove the causes which lead
to violence and to promote the inn
partial and effective action of police
during disputes, the following recon-
lamentations are made:
!. 4The enactment by Congress Of
a statute prohibiting. under severe
penalties. the transportation Of men
from State to State either under arms
or for the purpose of arming them
as guards or as agents either of en-
ployers or of employees.
a statute prohibiting the shipment in
1 2. ~The enactment by Congress Of
Interstate commerce Of cannon, gat.
ling guns and other guns Of similar
character, which are not capable of
personable use, when consigned to
anyone except military agencies of the
Estate or Federal Governments.
8. The regulation or prohibition of
private detective agencies and private
employment agencies as hereinbefore
suggested.
| 4. The strict enforcement in all
public and private employment offices
of the rules requiring full notice Of
| the existence of a strike.
| 5. The complete assumption by the
States and municipalities Of the re-
sponsibility for policing and the pro-
hibition of the maintenance Of any
private police (except limited mum,
Der of watchmen without police power
except on premises).
6. The definition by statute, by the
States, of the conditions under which
sheriffs may deputize, such regulations
| to include provisions that q deputy
| must be a bona fide resident Of the
State, that sworn statment of the
complete activities Of each deputy
covering q period Of ten years imme-
diately preceding his aepHtizati9n
shall be filed with the Secretary OF
Statei that no person who shall have
been convicted of any misdemeanor
or who shall have been imprisoned IN
any State shall be deputized. and that
mo deputy shall receive any money or
lson connected with an industrial dis
any other thing of value from any per-
pute during his period OF service OF
lin connection herewith.
I 7. The enactment1of statutes, by the
States, providing uniform code gov
/ erning the militia and embodying the
following principles:
i a. A proclamation Of martial law or
a state Of war, insufrection or rebel
lion, by the Governor OF a State, a.
the result of an Industrial dispute
ance Of the constitutional guarantees
! shall have no effect upon the continu-
of the state and Federal constitutions,
nor upon the law and statutes, nor
/ upon the jurisdiction OF the courts,
luor upon other civil authorities.
| b. The writ of habeas corpus or
lother process Of the courts can not be
! suspended, interfered with nor disre-
/ garded by the military. It is part OF
4 the duty of the military to assist IN
reinforcing the process and DEGREES q
the civil courts. s-
&. The ordinary courts shall have
texclusiye jurisdiction for the punish
ment Of crime. and in all cases where
the same act constitutes an indietable
loffense under. both military and Grim
;nal law, court martials shall have no
jurisdiction nor authority to try eifi'
/ GERS or soldiers accused thereof but
| the offender shall be turned over 20
the civil magistrate for trial
d. The military may not hold de'
tain. nor imprison persons arrested Dy
them any longer than Unnecessary TO
/ hand them over to the civil authort
ties. No persons arrested BY the I'M.
/ l;tia shall be detained after noon q
i he following day without being
brought before committing masis'
trate.
= The military may not forcibly
enter nor search . private house u
order 10 seize arms or other prop.
artv concealed therein without
search warrant. S 8.
The military shall have no ~:
,sorstv 10 establish = censorship oves
lthe press nor 70 interfere with the
implication Of newspapers. pamphlets
I hand bills. Of the exercise ct Tree
| speech. except under process Of the