The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1919-12-26
MATTHEW WOLL
ADVISES HAYS
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out being subject to annulment by
the court.
Our administration of law, in
parallel columns seeks to forbid the
combination of working men and
permits the combination of employ
crs. The trust and combination of
corporations may strike against the
public by raising the price of neccs-
stiles of life and the law does not
interfere. They can force their COM
pettors out Of business and the law
does not utter a word of protest.
They can strike against their en-
ployes by refusing TO consider any
representation that employees feel
themselves compelled to make to
keep body and soul together, or
they may even reduce wages, in
crease the working hours and stop
work en- masse by shutting down
the factories, the railroads or the
mines and the law puts its shelter
ing arms around them. But when
the workers are considering griev-
anCes they have against their en-
ployers, then the law sends the po
lice to break up their meetings.
When a speaker in their union meet
ings is responsible for utterances
which only fool or knave would
make then the entire membership
is held responsible in damages for
such an individual wrong or indis-
erection, and when a strike takes
place then the law affords an easy
way to rob the union and its mem
bers of all their funds and savings
of years of sacrifice and effort.
1T is high time that this awkward
contradiction in our administration
of law is made to disappear.
In the history of progress tyranny
has always been the turnkey, liber-
ty always the convict. Lowell once
said: Truth forever on the scat
fold, wrong forever on the throne"
That is many times the situation in
solar as it applies to our courts in
the exercise of their assumed equity
powers over the lives and liberties
of working men when involved in a
conflict with their employers. The
use of the injunction to prevent
strikes, to interfere with the con-
duct of strikes or to compel men to
call off strikes does not rest upon
law and order. To the contrary
such injunctions are in violation of
law and order and constitute a
clear invasion of the natural liber-
ty of man. Government by injunc-
ton is not government CT law but
of personal whim and fancy. Gov
eminent by injunction is not gov
eminent of the people, by the peo-
pie and for the people. Government
by injunction means that a Judge
may at will crowd the people into
position where they must all be
either slaves or criminals. Slaves if
they obey him, criminals if they
obey the Magma Charta, the Declara-
ton of independence and the Con-
stitution of the United States.
Government by injunction should
be prohibited, the rights and liber-
ties and freedom of the workers
should be fully safeguarded and the
upbuilding of a judicial aristocracy
and autocracy should be made i'm
possible for all time to come.
Congress would do we'll also to
speedily approve the Covenant of
the League of Nations, including the
Labor provisions contained in this
remarkable document, which holds
the hope for future peace of the
world in its keeping, instead of
filibustering and fiddling away like
Nero while Rome was aflame. No
act at this particular time could
do so much to allay the unrest
which dominates the world and
which would permit mems minds
to be turned to industrial Justice
and tranquility instead of keeping
them in state of wonderment as
to what the future political boun-
DIARIES, authorities, obligations and
responsibilities of the various ma
lions of the world will be.
The enactment of the following
laws would also prove helpful to
an Unreasonable degree: laws to
prohibit child labor: to totally re-
strict immigration for at least two
years; to defeat the amendment to
Section 13 of the Seamens Act: to
enact the Nolan minimum wage
bill for government employees: to
create a United States free employ