The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-04-28
FORMING TRADE UNIONS.

Proposed Law Provides That 1t Shall
Not Be Unlawful For Workers to
Organize For the Purpose of Better
Ing Their Condition-Toil of Hu-
man Being Is Not Commodity.
President Samuel Gompers of the
American Federation Of Labor has noti-
fed ell central labor unions In the
United States OF the decision OF the
federation to ask the central unions,
acting for the 100000 members, to
have a new anti-injunction law intro
duced In all of the state legislatures,
In the belief that efforts will be made
by powerful interests to curtail the
rights Of labor unions by means of leg
islative action.
The provisions of this proposed law
are rs follows:
Section lit shall not be unlawful
for working men and women to organ
ixe themselves into or carry on labor
unions for the purpose OF lessening
the hours OF labor or increasing the
wages or bettering the condition of the
members Of such organizations or car
rying on their legitimate purposes as
freely as they could do II acting singly.
Sec. 2.-No restraining order or in
junction shall be granted by any court
Of this state or any judge or judges
thereof in any case involving or grow
Ing out of a dispute concerning terms or
conditions o. employment, unless nee
essary to prevent irreparable injury to
property or TO a property right of the
party making the application, for injury
for which there is no adequate remedy
at law, and such property or property
right must be described with particu
larity ia the application, which must
be In writing and sworn to by the ap-
plicant or by his agent or attorney.
Sec. 3.-No restraining order or in
junction shall prohibit any person or
persons, whether singly or In concert,
from terminating any relation of EN-
ployment or from ceasing to perform
any work or labor, or from recon-
mending, advising ~or persuading 9th
ers so to do; or from attending at any
place where any person or persons may
lawfully be for the purpose Of obtain
ing or communicating information or
from persuading any such person to
work or to abstain from working; or
from ceasing TO patronize any party to
such dispute; or from recommending.
advising or persuading others so to do;
or from paying or giving TO or with
holding from any person engaged In
such dispute any strike benefits or
other moneys or things of value; or
from assembling in a lawful manner
or for lawful purposes or from doing
any act or thing which might lawfully
be done in the absence of such dispute
by a single indiyidual nor shall any
of the acts specified III this section be
considered or held to be illegal or un-
lawful In any court of this state.
Sec. 4.-That the labor of human
being is not commodity or article of
commerce, and the right to enter into
the relation OF employer and employee,
or to change that relation, or TO assume
and create a new relation for employer
and employee, or to perform and carry
on business with any person In any
place, or to do work and labor as an
employee shall be held or construed to
be personal and not property right
In all cases involving the violation of
the contract of employment, either by
the employee or employer. where no
irreparable damage is about to be
committed upon the property or prop
erty right OF either, no injunction shall
be granted, but the parties shall be
left to their remedy at law.
Sec. 5.-No persons shall be indict-
ed, prosecuted or tried in any court
Of this state for entering into or carry
ing on any arrangement, agreement or
combination between themselves made
with view of lessening the number
Of hours of labor or increasing wages
or bettering the condition of working
men or for any act done in pursuance
thereof, unless such act Is In itself for
hidden by law IL done by single indi-
vidual