The Holbrook news., 1921-03-11
Organized Labor DefieS United States Government in Mat
 ter of Injunctions.
IS READY FOR BIG FIGHT
"BiII of Rights" and Legislative De- mands Issued-Hardina Completes His cabinet-America Pro- tests Japanese Rule Over
 Yap-Near East Con-
 ference in London.
By EDWARD w. PACKARD.

Organized labor of America has thrown down before its enemies" the gauntlet of challenge to a fight to a finish. The United States govern ment is apparently included among those "enemies" and is boldly defed to enforce judicial injunctions in in- dustrial disputes.
 Under the leadership of Samuel Gompers the representatives of the national and international unions af- filiated with the American Federation of Labor met last week in Washing ton and formulated their "bill of rights and their demands on the gov ernment and the people. In these there is much besides the injunction matter, but that is perhaps the most important. A statement prepared by MT. Gompers was issued in which the injunction as now used is denounced as unconstitutional and a pure usur patton of power and authority. The only remedy in the hands of the workers, continues the statement, 'lies in a fiat refusal on the part of labor to recognize or abide by the terms of injunctions which seek to prohibit the doing of acts which the workers have q lawful and guaranteed right to do or which seek to compel workers to do those things which they have a lawful and guaranteed right to refuse to do.
 "This is the only immediate course through which labor can find relief, and this course 1t purposes to pursue. Labor realizes fully the consequences of such a course, but in the defense of American freedom and of Amer iean institutions it is compelled to adopt this course, be the consequences what they may"
 Of course if this threat Is carried out the result will be the arrest of great numbers of working men for violations of injunctions and, presum- ing that the courts and government do not yield and that union labor brings into action all its resources, something little short of a state of rebellion will follow. Union labor thinks that its very existence as such Is threatened by present tendencies and conditions. Other citizens must see that the threat is directed against the peace of the nation and all that that involves. Nor will the informed and thinking American accept as the truth the statement of Gompers, that only the Federation of Labor Is say ing the country from Bolshevism. The Reds have done and can do much mis- chief In America, but there Is no real danger of their gaining control here or upsetting our government.
 Public support and recognition is asked by the labor leaders for these comprising their "bill of rights":
 The right of the working people to organize into trade unions for the protection of their rights and inter- ests.
 The right to, and practice of, col lective bargaining by trade unions, through representatives of their own choosing.
 The right to work, and to cease work, collectively.
 The right collectively to bestow or withhold patronage.
 The right to the exercise of collec- tive activities in furtherance of the welfare of labor
 Their legislative program is sum- marized thus:
 Enactment by congress of legisla- Hon to protect the workers in their organized capacity against the con rept that there is a property right in human labor.