The Gem worker and the Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1914-1917, 1916-09-07
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ION which pIODlUltS tUt use OF tHt
inhuman Taylor System in govern
ment workshops.
On July II, l9l6-An act to provide
capital for agricultural development,
to create standard forms oF invest
ment based upon farm mortgage, to
equalize rates OF interest upon farm
loans. to furnish market for United
States bonds, to create Government
depositaries and financial agents for
the United States, and for other pur-
poses.
On July 29. l916-The Post Office
Appropriation bill was approved.
This blu contains provisions improv-
ing the conditions of letter carriers,
clerks and other Post Office em-
(loyos.
There are several other important
labor measures upon the calendars OF
both Houses. which, if passed, it is
confidently expected he will also APP
prove.
On July a. 1916, on the occasion
of the dedication of the American
Federation OF Labor office building
in Washington, d. c., President Will
son delivered an inspiring address
from which | quote in part, as fol-
lows:
NO man ought to suffer injustice
in America. No man ought in Amer
ica to fail to see the deep dictates of
humanity.
MIR. Gompers was referring just
now to the sixth section of the Clay
ton Antitrust law. the section i'll
which the obvious is stated, namely,
that a mans labor is not a commod-
ity, but part of his life. and that,
therefore, the courts must not treat
it as If it were a commodity, but
must treat it as if it were a part of
his life. | am sorry that there were
any judges in the United States who
had to be told that. 1t is so obvious
that it seems to me that section of
the Clayton Act were a return to the
primer of human liberty; but if Judges
have to have the primer opened be-
fore them, ! am willing to open it."
Students of history may search
wide and deep, they may spend many
years OF keen research and nowhere
in the pages of American history will
they find clearer and more definite
pronouncement in behalf OF real, hu-
man liberty than the above expression
by President Woodrow Wilson on
July 4, 1910
Justice Hughes Record
You also ask for the record of
the Honorable Charles Evans Hughes
Republican nominee for President, as
10 labor measures, and particularly
as to the Danbury Hatters' Case
The Danbury Hatters' Case has an
historical place in Labor's struggle
for freedom. 1t was in the course of
the trial of this case that the workers
of our country finally succeeded in
securing a declaration from the high
est court Of the land as TO the ap-
| plication of antitrust legislation to
associations of wage-earners.
The decision of the court in this
case involved a principle OF funda-
mental importance to workers II
was the same principle involved in
the abuse of the writ of injunction
which, under the perversion by judges
who had no understanding. of indus
trial conditions and the labor OF hui
man beings had been transformed in
J to an agency at the service of em-
ployers who wished to restrict the
industrial freedom Of their employees
and to prevent their using Legitimate
methods of securing their demand.
and promoting their welfare.
The theory upon which courts hav,
held that Antitrust legislation ap
piled to associations of wage-earner,
and that injunctions could be used tc
regulate industrial relations, which
are personal relations, was the as
sumption that the labor of a human
being was an article or a commodit,
and, therefore, property. This as
sumption recognizes no distinction
between the creative labor power o
a human being which is inseparahl
from his living body and the article
which he produces.
In 1908 the Supreme Court Of tn
United States rendered a decision il
the Hatters' Case when the initial ap
peal was made
In 1914 the United States suprem