The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-13
-LABOR FEDERATION
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sentiment and the seeming necessity
for Intervention in the affairs Of Mex
leo. and was able to helpAring about
an adjustment of misunderstanding
without rasorting % war
The report details the conferences
and tells Of the ultimatum sent toll
General Carranza by the United.i
States demanding Immediate release
of American soldiers captured at Car
RIAL
lit was at this time u the report
goes on "that#a request was made ito
President Gompers that he make a
personal appeal to General Carranza
totTelease the United States soldiers
The telegram asking release :. in the
name of common justiccsand human
ity and n better understanding bel
tween the two countries and TO avoid
.s.t the horrors. of VAR was recft0d and 4
same evening extra pa pers announced
General CarranZa had Issued an order
releasing the American nldiers.
The conferences. the report says,
led to an understanding which made
more general "the feeling that thel
people Of Mexico knew what they
wanted, understood their peculiar
lproblelns and had a right to work out
their own salvation in accord with
their own ideals.
Legislation Reviewed.
Reviewing antitrust and injunction
regulation the report says:
The enactment q ftilc labor prOvis-
Hons OF the Clayton anti-trust act has
forced employers who wish to use
iantt-trust legislation and the iniunc-
tive process 10 assist them in defeat
ling the efforts OF emp oyces To secure
higher wages and better conditions OF
work, to transfer their efforts from
federal to state courts. The result
Inakcs increasingly important the ne
cessity for the enactment OF state
laws to prevent the aDuse OF judicial
lagencies and the pervGrsion or lcgis-
lation to exclusive service in behalf 81
enlployers. The uses to which Writs
iof injunction and antitrust legis latfot
have been put have made them vir
Etually strike-brcakEng institutions ant
Eunion-d destroying agencies. Such +;
acondition IS subyersive to proper re
Ispcct for our governmental instttu
Etions and TO the republic ITSELF
@ Such acondition, the report says
RESULTED III the framing or Il mode
Itanti-trust and Injunction Limitation
Ehill. presented TO the San FTancisc
fed Grafton convention and urged by
iEupon central organizations and tn
frank and Ale TO be insisted upon q
proper laws.
Court Decisions.
Decisions Of courts favorable mn
Iunfavorable to tho contentious or labo
are reviewed, some emphasis bein
laid upon decision of the suprem
court Of Massachusetts holding un
I constitutional a stltc8law which wa
taken by the Ssderntion as It's frs
inodol in the ondcavor to protect wage
learners from the perverted appl1ca
Etion Of anti-trust leglslntion and fro1
the abuse OF tho writ OF Injunction"
The decision, the report says,
biased on the theory that labor
property" which 1T asserts is d doe
matte ruling and based upon past de
clstona of judges. Tho court is-rhargc
with not making proper invest at1o
in deciding such a case and its metz
eds are characterized as 'unscholnrl.
Eunscicntifc. and out OF harmony wit
the purposes Of real 1us lice" Tho r
port says the executive council VI
consider the case to determine Whetl
er further steps may be taken
In connection with ecisions atfec
ing labor by federal courts the repol
y refers to the noted Danhury Halter
case.