The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-03
SLAP ON WRIST
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| sons in touch with the court claimed
! to see significance in the act that the
! announced reasons for the refusal of
/ the men to appear were entirely tech
meal and did not include the asser-
| ton that the court law was uncon-
| stitutional, as has been put forward
| by the Kansas mine workers IN their
! campaign against the statute.
! The reasons announced by the pack
| ing house union officials were that
| the subpoenas were not issued under
] the strict letter of the law; that they
should have been issued under the
strict letter of the law; that they
! should have been issued blythe district
court of the county in which the union
officials summoned, lived and that dis
trict subpoenas from the lnoustrla i
court must be delivered by registered
+ mail. The subpoenas were served
upon the union officials by the Wyan-
dotte county sheriff's office. Service
was obtained upon forty-one officials.
The hearing was called under the
| section of the Industrial court law
which provides that strikes may not
take place in industries held to be
| essential to the public welfare. The
call followed the filing of a complaint
by Attorney General Hopkins that
! controversy between the packers and
their union employees threatened to
endanger the peace, health and safety
/ of the public, and requested that both
parties to the controversy be brought
before the COURT
| Resolution Passed by Unions.
| The resolution to ignore the courts
| subponas vas adopted amid cheers
! at a meeting of the union men which
was executive. Those at the meeting
/ also worked out plans for putting the
| strike order into effect. n. H. Wal
ker. general chairman of publicity for
the unions, was loudly applauded
when he tod the men that altho the
state laws prohibited ''picketing," the
! statutes did not specify the distance
picketers must stay away from com
pany property. He counseled against
violence in any form, and urged that
the proposed walkout be made 100 per
| cent complete. AS he finished there
were shouts of well be there, We'll
| face Jail if necessary"
The manner by which the industrial
court obtained the names of the union
officials subpoenaed came in for
| heated discussion. and a committee of
three was appointed to investigate re-
ports that a union official had been
the source of information. A commit
tee of two also was appointed to
picket the city hall, where the in
vestigation is being held, and warn
away any member or official served
with a summons who might not have
been informed of the decision not to
appear.
Chicago Orders Say Ignore.
Chicago, Dec. packing house
workers in Kansas City have been ad-
vised to disregard the orders of the
Kansas industrial court and to go on
strike Monday morning when the
union strike order goes into effect IN
all packing centers, it was announced
today by Dennis Lane, secretary OF
the Amalgamated Meat Cutters ana
Butcher Workmen of North America.
or
been received as indicated in dis
patches from Kansas City, occordlhS
to Mr. Lane.
I'VE have sent special instructions
to go ahead with the strike in Kansas
however" Mr.. Lane said. Ihe kan-
sas Industrial court is n joke to us.
Packers to Fill Jobs.
Coincident with an order from
Armour & Company of the big
five" packers that all employees
who walk out Monday in protest
against the 10 per cent wage reduction
will lose their places, advertisements
appeared in papers today calling for
men to fill vacancies if the union men
strike.
The situation in Kansas City, Kan,
where representatives OF the union
men were summoned before the Kan
sas Industrial court was brought to
tho attentiC.l of international OFFICIALS
of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butchers Workmen of North America
today and it was reported the Kansas
men asked permission for a walkout
today to avoid appearance before the
industrial court.
big Five" VILE Fight?
Officers of the big five" packers
have made plain their intention to
continue operations and declared they
do not fear a WalkOut on large scare.
Union leaders say there are $4,000
union men in the plants of the big
five" distributed turnout fifteen
cities.
Four of the large packers have
adopted the shop representation or
similar systems in their plants and 1t
was the Armout shop committee
which last night issued the warning
that strikers would lose their places.
More than as per centeof the elect
ed employe representatives of all
plant5" said an official announcement
from Swift & Co, voted either favor
ably upon the readjustments (of
wages or to leave the matter to the
management