Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-24
LAbOR WOIlI ] AMEND JAMS TO SUIT
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Delegates Endorse Plans To Make Laws Without Regard T 0 Legality MAY IGNORE COURTS Want To Remove Power. Of Courts To Decide On
 ConStitutimality

WASHINGTON. Feb. 23-Enact- ment by congress of a law declaring labor organizations are not co-partner- ships and shall not be so treated in law or in equity" is demanded by or ganiZed labor in declaration of prin- ciples adopted tonight Dy represent atives Of national and international unions affiliated in the American Fed eration of Labor.
 The declaration, approved after an all-day conference at, which Samuel GOmpers presided, also called for the immediate restoration of exemption from or the repeal of all anti-combin- ation and so-called' Conspiracy laws" Conforming use Of the injunction under present laws, the declaration as serted that the only immediate course" through which labor could lind relief Ines in refusal on the part or labor to recognize or abide by the terms of injunctfOns which seek to prohibit the doinss of acts which the workers have a lawful and guaranteed right to do."
 Labor realizes fully the conse- Quences of such a course" it was add ed, but in the defense of American | freedom and of American institutions 1t is compelled to adopt this course, be the consequences what they may Organized labor set for the prin- ciples for which it stands and calls on the people to rally with labor ito the defense of our imperiiled Ameri- can institutions"
 Employers are warned in the declar- l.,l, maintaining the present standard or | wages and working conditions, but de clares its solemn purpose to continue it's struggle to further improve those standards
 The declaration charged some em- ployers" with supporting "at times in secret" some of the 'insidious propa- sanda of. radical European fanaticism because Of their common antagonism to the trade union movement" There is an unscrupulousness and a natural aptitude for intrigue in this ianatical propaganda" the statement said, which makes it a most subtle
 menace to every democratic ideal and institution in our country Repeal by the states of all industrial court laws and all restrictive and CO., erciVe laws, including the commonly known open port law of Texas. was demanded, together with freedom from decisions of courts holding trade
 unions and individual members there
 of liable in damages for the unlawful
 -cts of others
 Other recommendations made in tie declaration included:
 Prohibition of immigration for not less than two years.
 More general application. of the ini- datiye and referendum in the politi- cal affairs.
 Removal of the power of courts to declare unconstitutional laws enacted by congress.
 Election of judges.
 Restoration of an adequate federal employment service.
 Administration or credit as a public
 trust in the interest of all.
 Investigation by congress of the ac tivities of private detective agencies
 in the field of industrial relations
 The declaration also called on work
 CTS to resist all efforts to destroy the
 trade unions, whether by the false pre-
 tense of the open shop the usured
 authority of courts through writs of
 injunction or otherwise"
 We call for united support in the protection of standards of wages and
 conditions already gained" the dec
 laratiOn added, and we summon the
 workers to continued efforts to in-
 crease the consuming power raise the
 standards and improve the conditions
 of life and work"