Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-20

report on the judicial construction
of law. This report which assailed
courts and judges, declared
organized labor in the future would
treat all injunctive DEGREES that "in-
wade personal liberties" as being in
violation of constitutional safe
guards and would accept what
ever consequences" might follow.
despite all precautions to safe
guard individual liberty and free
dom of action" said the report
and the fact that the constitu-
tional convention denied the right
to our courts to pass on the con-
stitutionality of laws enacted by
congress, our courts and judges
have been slowly and surely disre-
garding these restrictions and
limitations and now freely and I'M
interruptedly exercise powers
which even the monarchs and
kaisers dare not exercise with all
their claims to power by inherent
divinity.
"The power Of our courts to de-
clare legislation enacted uncon-
stitutional and void is most
fragrant usurpation of power and
authority and is a reputation and
denial Of the principle of self
government recognized now as
a world doctrine. The continued
exercise of this unwarranted power
is a blasphemy on the rights and
claims of free men of America"
This usurpation of power by Our
courts to subordinate the leg;sla-
tive and executive departments to
their will and compel the activities
of free people to their whims and
dictates is paralleled and equafled
only by the further usurpation of
authority of our courts to legislate
and punish people to direct de-
fiance of constitutional safeguards
to personal liberty and freedom of
action.
Vested With Too Much Power.
"By the issuance of injunctive de-
crees by our courts, by the re-
straint they place upon the normal
and iightful activities of a free peo-
ples by the Furnishing of free men
in the exercise of their constitu-
tional rights without opportunity to
a trial by jury, by the removal of
safeguards thrown around the in
dividral against extreme and excess
sive punishments and the denial of
an opportunity of executive Glenn
ency, our courts have vested them
selves with a power greater than
any despot ever heretofore
possessed.
The fate of the sovereignty of
American people again hangs in the
balance. It rs inconceivable that
such an autocratic despotical and
tyrannical power can long remain in
a democracy. One or the other
must ultimately give way, and we
believe that this convention should
declare that as wage earners and
citizens of a free and democratic
republic, we shall stand firmly and
conscientiously on our rights as
free men and treat all injunctive de-
crees that invade our personal lib
critics as unwarranted, . in fact, un-
justified in law and illegal as being
in violation of our constitutional
safeguards and 4 accept whatever
may follow.
Want Adequate Laws.
Immediate steps should be taken
by the executive council and by all
state organizations for the early en-
a -tment of adequate laws to deny
the further usurpation of these un.
warranted powers by our courts and
that congress should be petitioned
to impeach all judges who exercise
governmental functions and au-
thority not expressly delegated to
them. The public mind and con-
science should be fully aroused to the
dangers confronting the Liberties of
our people,
The convention also adopted a
report providing that all labor or
CARNATIONS in the United States
should closely cooperate with trade
unionists in Canada in establishing
stable conditions and should give
Canadian members of international
advice and counsel and
call Attention to the sinister inAu-
ences which are working in Canada
to split up organized labor"
Without even a debate the con-
vention went on record against the
formation of a political labor party.