Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-11-10

strains the officials of the miners from
in any way advising their membership on
the situation or contributing any of the
moneys of the mine workers to the as
sistance of the men on strike, also re-
straining them from discussing, writing,
or entering into any kind of conven-
ton with their membership on the strike
situation.
''The government then proceeded to
further invade the rights of the miners,
not only by restraining the miners, their
officers and members from furthering
the purposes for which the men contend
ed, but went to further lengths of de-
manding from the court an order COM
manding the officers of the miners un-
ion to recall and withdraw the strike
notification, and the court complacently
complied and issued the order.
Condemn Court Action.
'Never in the history of our country
has any such mandatory order been OBJ
tanned or even applied for by the govern
ment or by any persons.
Both the restraining order and the
injunction insofar as its prohibitory fea-
lures are concerned, are predicated upon
the Lever act, law enacted by con-
gress for the purpose Of preventing spee-
supplies of the country. There never was
in the minds of the congress in enacting
that law or in the mind of the president
when he signed it, the thought that the
Lever act would be applied TO workers
in cases of strikes or lockouts. The
food controller. Mr.. Hoover, specifically
so stated. Members of the committee
having the bill in charge have in writing
declared that 1t was not in the minds of
the committee and in general, Mr.. Greg
org gave assurance that the government
would not apply that law to the workers
efforts TO obtain improved working con-
ditions. Every assurance from the high
est authority of our government was
given that the law would not be SO an
Piled"
Quote the President.
'1n the course of President Wilson's
address to the Buffalo convention of the
American Federation of Labor, Novem~
Der, 1917. among other things he siad:
"'While We are fighting for freedom
we must see among other things that
labor is freed and that means number
of interesting things. 1t means not only
that We must do what we have declared
it our purpose to do, see that the con-
ditions of labor are not rendered more
onerous by the war, but also that we
shall see to it that the instrumentalities
by which the conditions of labor are I'm
proved are not blocked or checked. That
we must do
''The autocratic action of our goyern+
ment in these proceedings is of such
nature that 1t staggers the human mind.
In a free country to conceive Of gov
ernment applying for and obtaining g.
restraining order prohibiting the officials
of a labor organization from contributing
their own money for the purpose Of pro-
curing food for women and children that
might be starving, is something that
when known will shock the sensibilities
of man and will cause resentment.
Opposed to Liberty, Claim.
'Surely the thousands of men who are
lying in France under the soil. whose
blood was offered for the freedom of the
world never dreamed that so shortly
afterwards in their own country 400. 900
workers endeavoring to better their
working conditions would have the gov
ernment decide that they were not en-
titled to the assistance of their fellow
men, and that their wives and children
should starve by order of the govern
nent.
1T is well-estahished principle that
The inherent purpose of the injunction
process where there is no other ade-
luate remedy at law, was for the pur-
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