The daily times., 1919-06-12
PRESSURE ON THE COURTS

II we puDIlSueu yeSISIudy d SS AOp-
sis of the recommendation of the
american Federationu of Labor, tho
delegates of which are now in session
in Atlantic City.
1t is a most important document.
and should be carefully studied and
prayerfully considered by every man
whether he is manufacturer, bus
mess man or employee.
The editor of the Times shall dis
cuss these recommendation frankly
and without prejudice, for we be-
lieve the time has come for labor
and capital to be frank with each
other and consider the interests OF
one another on the basis of human
sympathy, brotherhood and common
interest.
For over thirty years the editor
Of the Times has been an employer,
and we believe we know something g
of the feelings of the laboring man
and we believe we speak the truth
when we say that no employer has
ever thought more of the people with
whom he worked or kept up with
them in every way or tried to help
them more than he. If we have
ever refused any reasonable request
cf the people who have worked for us
we do not recall, and many a time
have we helped those employed by
us to our own hurt.
And yet we have decided ideas
about our rights and the rights of
the employer in any line of business.
We believe that if a man hires
himself to another at a certain price
per day or week that he should give
that man a days work and not loaf
on the job, and that he should also
employer and be so deeply interested
that he will do whatever he can to
save his time and money and thus
make the business yield as much as
possible, that his employer may like
him, and be made to feel that he is
absolutely indispensable to the bus
mess. Such help any man is fool
to discharge, and any employer who
would not keep such a man is not fit
to run bushes. But we don't
believe that body of employees have
the right to uphold a sorry employee
simply because he is the member of
their union, since if the employer is
compelled to keep an inefficient en-
IL i'll
and the output of the plant. Neither
do we believe that the union has the
right to picket a plant during
strike in order to prevent the. en-
is not only interfering with the lib
critics of the employer but with the
liberties of employees who desire to
work. Employees have the right
to quit work if they desire, but we
submit they have no right to try to
prevent others from working if they
desire for this is virtual industrial
slavery.
Having stated our position as to
what we hold regarding the rights
of the employer and the employed we
shall at this time only discuss one
very vital plank of the recommenda-
tions of the delegates to the Fedora
tion of labor, meeting the enactment
any invasions of the rights and the
prerogattives of the legislative
branch of our government by the
Judiciary
Now this statement upon the face
of it is an assumption that there has
been or might be an invasion of the
rights and prerogratives of the
legislative branch of our govern
ment by the judiciary. But for this
anticipation, or the actual facts ex-
listing there would be no necessity
for the declaration. Why should
tabor feel that it does not now, or
might not in the future receive JUS
tice at the hands of the courts?
Surely for their own safety either
individually or collectively they
would not bring the courts into dis
repute or endeavor to leave the i'm
preston that our jurists are not eff
ficient, experienced, chaste and clean
both in judicial knowledge, exper-
fence and temperament and certain
y with due cognizance of what the
results have been elsewhere and
what might be here, would for the
greater reason seek to give labor ev-
erything they possibly could under
the law and prevailing customs.
To say that the co6rts shall not
review the acts of representatives
who pass laws either under pressure
of their constituency or influenced by
desire to popularize themselves
with a constituency that might be