Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1919-12-13
FOOLED LABOR
In Injunction Suit Clayton Act Used
in 1916 to Help to Get Vote
of Workers.
Especial Correspondence.)

Especial correspondence
Washington, d. Cit is the concen.
sus Of opinion in political circles in the
National Capital that the Wilson admin
istration has irreparably lost its hold
upon labor because of its use of the in
junction in the coal strike after its prom
Use, written into the Clayton antitrust
act, not to do so.
Just as the President in 1916 gave an
implied promise to keep the country out
of war and failed to do so because of cir
cumstances which be and others had
foreseen, and just as he repeatedly as
serted on the stump earlier in the year
that the league of nations covenant
would end all future wars in spite of
preparation in several parts of the globe
! for conflict, so put through Congress an
injunction law v hich is now abandoned
in face Of the necessity of getting coal.
Labor had for years been making
vain attempt to limit the use Of the iu-
junction by The courts in labor disputes
as a means Of protecting property and
placing strikers at disadvantage. In
1914 it's leaders were therefore delighted
when the Clayton act included the fol-
lowing provision:
"rhat no restraining order or iniunc
tion shall be granted by any court of the
United States, or a judge or the judges
thereof in any case between an em-
ployer and employees, or between em
ployers and employees, or between EN-
pioy ees, or between persons employed
and persons seeking employ iu-
volying or growing out of a dispute
concerning terms or conditions Of en-
ployment, unless necessary to prevent
irreparable injury to property, or to a
property right, of the party making the
application, for which injury there is no
adequate remedy at law, and such prop
erty or property right must be described
with particularly in the application,
which must be in writing and sworn to
by the applicant or by his agent or at
tOrney."
Though the war has been over for
more than a year, Judge Anderson's in
junction was granted because of the APP
plication of the government, through
the Attorney General, based upon the
terms Of the Lever war act to prevent
any attempt to limit the production and
distribution of food and fuel. 1t has
been particularly distasteful to the mine
workers because Of the promise made in
the law and not kept, as because violence
to property had not been resorted to and
the Injunction was issued even before
the strike began. Miners and all union
workers are therefore incensed at the
Administration which made its injunc-
ton legislation one of the bases for lis
plea for support from labor-that and
the Adamson law and 'thank God for
Wilson, he kept US out of war"
What makes union labor all the hot
Jer is the follow ing statement issued by
Secretary of the Treasury Carter Glass
Goal operators generally in the Unit
ed States in the years 1914 and 1915 lost
money when normal depletion and de-
probation are taken into consideration.
What is meant by this is that proper
item in fixing costs, is depreciation of
plant and depletion of the cost or value
of the coal in the ground.
"In 1918 conditions were not so good
in the Appalachian and central being
.N,,n IN nnVat lace ~aNt
tive districts, profits generally than for
the preceding year, the range being from
10 to 300 per cent on invested capital.
In the West conditions in 1918 were
better than in 1917, the profits in the
Rocky Mountain districts ranging as
high as 400 per cent on invested capital.
Unofficial figures for 1919, incom plete
of course, indicate that profits of the
operators are less than for 1918, some of
the operators claiming to have actually
lost money"