Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1916-11-23
WILSON'S MESSAGE
TO CONGRESS
WILL TAKE UP RAILROAD LEG
ISLATION AS PROPOSED IN
AUGUST.

TdlIIOdu lc6ISldIlOu III HIo duuI coo "
Congress will be practically the same
as those embodied in his special ad-
dress last August, when a nation
wide railroad strike was pending.
Mr.. Wilson discussed some details of
the message today with the cabinet.
The message to Congress will
deal primarily with legislative ques-
tions recommended to congress pre-
viously and not finally settled.
The principal items in the mes
sage are understood to be railroad
legislation to meet the situation
created by the threatened railroad
strike last August; a measure to al
low American exporters to form
common selling agencies abroad; !;
conservation bills; corrupt prac-
tise measure, and the Porto Rico
bill.
Railroad BrotherhoOds Oppose
Injunction.
Baltimore, Md, Nov. 20.-The
organized labor forces of the coun-
try today avowed extreme hostility
to the writ of injunction as a means
Of stopping a strike.
First, a resolution was adopted
unanimously at the morning session
of the convention of the American
Federation of Labor, urging organ
lied labor everywhere to make the
injunction question the paramount
issue in all of their future political
activity" The committee on the
executive councils report took up
that feature of the report dealing
with the decision Of the Massachu-
sets supreme court classifying la
Dor as property.
The committees report follows:
ut seems to be settled purpose
of interests antagonistic to the free
dom of men and women who labor,
to persuade and then use the judici-
ary to misconstrue constitutional
guarantees and thereby nullify legis-
lative enactments, 50 as to leave but
one remedy; and we therefore rec
ommend that any injunction dealing
with the relationship of employer
and employe, and based on the die
tum labor is property be wholly
and absolutely regarded as usurpa-
ton and disregarded, let the conse-
quences be what they may.
Rooted in Class Interests.
"Such decisions as the one render
ed by the supreme court of the state
of Massachusetts, has it's roots in
class interests; it is usurpation and
tyranny.
"Freedom came to man because
he believed that resistance of tyran-
ny is obedience to God. AS it came,
so it must be maintained. Kings
could be and were disobeyed and
sometimes deposed. In cases of this
kind, judges must be disobeyed and
should be impeached."
Brotherhood Heads Confer.
Washington, Nov. 20.-Heads OF
the railroad brotherhoods, determin-
ed that the Adamson eight hour law
shall not be broken down, conferred
here today with President Wilson,
Attorney General Gregory and their
legislative representatives, declared
their purpose to aid the government
in every way in fighting injunction
suits against the law, and made fur.
ther plans for perfecting working
agreement with their allies, the rail-
road men of the American Fedora,
ton Of Labor.
When the governments attor-
neys, G. Carroll Todd, assistant to
the attorney general; Assistant At.
torney General Underwood and
Frank Haggerman, appear in the fed.
eral court at Kansas City next Thurs
day to oppose the Union Pacific and
Santa Fe suit against the Adamson
law, they will be fanked by repre-
sentatives of the brotherhoods.
Great significance is attached to
the announcement today that the
brotherhood heads will address the
American Federation of Labor con-
vention in Baltimore tomorrow. New
er before in the history of the two
organizations have any of their
members met in joint session.