Evening star., 1921-08-27
LABOR WILL ENTER
CONGRESS FIGHT
A. F. of 1. Council Plans to
Elect Members in Sympathy
With Cause.
By the AssOcia ted Press,

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., August 81.
Plans for a nationwide campaign
to elect members of the House of Rep
resentatives favorable to labor were
being made at today's session of the
executive council of the American
Federation of Labor. The council is
planning to form a permanent nom
partisan political campaign organiza-
tlon to function in all local, state and
national elections. State federations
and local central bodies will organize
committees to cooperate with the
central committee at Washington.
The council today also had before it
a large number Of subjects to be in
vestigated. including the practicable
ity of producing and exhibiting mo-
ton pictures by the federation
through its own studios and theaters.
The council also was considering ways
and means of establishing a chain of
daily newspapers.
The council has been investigating
all bills now before Congress.
An appeal to the citizens of America" :"
for defeat of the Nelson bill. lust
passed by the Senate, was issued last
night by the executive council of the
American Federation of Labor.
The statement described the bill.
which relates to the issuance of war
rants by federal judges as 'the most
subtle and pernicious attack yet made
in the history of our land upon the
constitutional safeguards of the
rights and liberties of our people"
No Attack Yet Made.
mo attack yet made" continued the
statement, ''has been more subtle and
more vicious in character and more
fundamentally destructive of the lib
critics Of all our people than that con-
templated in the bill introduced by
Senator Nelson of Minnesota and
passed in the Senate by a cavernous
route and darkened ways-a bill,
which has for it's purpose the placing
into the hands of our federal courts
a power formerly possessed only by
kings, and in which citizens were
treated as subjects rather than the
sovereigns of a nation.
'The particular bill intends giving
the right and opportunity to any
judge In a federal district to issue a
warrant for the arrest of an indicted
person who may live in a far-distant
state. and transport him to the place
of Indictment and trial without giving
him the opportunity Of a hearing on
the probable cause upon which the in
dictment or complaint is founded be-
fore being removed from the district
Of his domicile.
Objective Of BAll.
'Tn other words, this bill has for it's
objective the,revival Of legalized kid
naping and the taking of the heart
out Of the writ of habaes corpus, one
Of the great writs wrested by the peo-
pie from the kings and the ruling
class for the safety and protection of
the liberties Of the people.
"This bill intends to grant to the
branch Of our government a
power which will place the liberties
Of our people under its complete DOM
fnation. 1t is a bill that has no justi-
fable cause for its proposal and bill
that has for its purposes the attain
ment of ends in complete variance
with our democratic institutions and
which conflicts with constitutional
safeguards.
"The executive council of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor. speaking in
the name Of organized labor Of Amer
lea and in behalf of all wage earners
Of our land. calls upon all citizens to
use all the power and influence at
their. command to defeat this proposed
Legislation. and to rally to the defense
Of our uhertieS.