Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-11-15
PICkETINGtIS ' ENDOWED
 IN LITTLE ROCK
Continued from page one.)

those who are organized think that
 the salary paid them or the condi- tions surrounding their work are not as they should be and they call a strike, they must obey the law. That is, they must go on about their own business and not try to force upon their employers the demands which they make. To permit them to do that is to create condition of an archy; it is to permit the violation of property and personal rights, which the law is supposed to protect.
 Now, in this country it matters not whether you are all employer or an employee: you are supposed to be governed by the law as it is written. It is the duty of the courts to enforce and interpret the law as it exists, not as some particular set of individuals or a single individual may think that it ought to be. If the law as 1t is written, as 1t is announced by the law making body of the country, does not suit any class of individuals or any individual, he has the right to petition that law making body and ask that the law be changed. The law making body in this state is the leg islature, connected with the power of the governor.
 Petition for wage scale.
 Now, if you. are not satisfied for the telephone company to fix its wages itself you have the right to petitio.. the legislature to fix a scale of wages that these public service corporations may pay. Until you have induced the legislature to do that, you have not right to, by force-you have no right by any force or intimidation or by combination to compel that com pany to increase its wages by the de- struction of it's property or by inter- fering with its employees or by in- timidating those who may be work ing for it, by calling them names or trying to ridicule them about the place of business and, in that way, causing them to become uneasy or 
 Court Cannot Fix Wages.
 This court has nothing to do with the question of whether these girls are receiving proper wage or not. The court cannot inquire into that That is a matter for them to decide. If the two cannot agree and the lesis- lature thinks that the prices paid are not sufficient, the legislature can pass law, perhaps, requiring the telephone company to pay certain scale of wages as minimum wage, and when they have done that, that would be-if they did that, these peo- pie could not interfere with it; but to say that any number of strikers, however just their cause may be, can go and by force and intimidation force the telephone company to in crease their wages by destroying it's by driving away from it's those wno are working for it or by any other form of in limitation is to say that we have no law, we are not governed by the law as it is written, we must be governed by what some particular class of in dividuals may say.
 Courts Protect All
 It may be here that the telephone company is entirely right and prop CT in it's contention that it is paying all that it can pay to these people for the services they are rendering. It may be, on the other hand that it is not paying what it should pay. But that is not a question that you can adjust by destroying their property; it is not a question that you can ad- just by assembling in numbers and making incendiary speeches which will interfere with their business and disturb the public.
 'The courts will protect just as quickly the rights of a single individ- ual as they will the rights of this tel ephone company, when they are vio- lated by the telephone company. But, because the telephone company is on one side, and has money back of it, power and influence, is no reason why the courts should not protect 1t against a combination ot individ- uals who, in order to carry out their desire, disregard the law.
 No Peaceful Picketing.
 "Now, you will be enjoined from that building, it is said that peaceful picketing is lawful. There perhaps are some cases holding that. But there is no such thing as peace full picketing, as you will see and observe from what has occurred with reference to this strike here. When you place pickets around building,