The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-08-28
LABOR. ID REMOVE. SMOKE: SCREEN ID. BARE CONSPIRACY
Entire Subject of Corporate Interests to Be InvestIgat- ed, A. F. of L. Executive
 Council Announces
By Associated Press

Atlantic City, August 27.--1n or der that corporate indpstries con dueted under corporate grants shsl be operated for the common good and mot merely for the profit of class of men, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor tonight announced that 1t purposes to in vestigate this entire subject, so that the people of our land may be fully and accurately spprised of the real situation of affairs"
 Rights. privileges and opportuni- ties equal to those granted the ccr- porate interests are demanded by the wage earners, said the council, de- claring that an inquiry will also be made with a view of devising q comprehensive plan for the c0rrec- tion of the grave dangers and great evils that have fastened themselves like barnacles upon our people.1
 "Organized labor" they said, fin tends not to suffer longer under the persistent efforts being made to itis- represent their hopes, aims and as = pirations and to deny them equal rights and opportunities with other
 
 move the smoke screen that has been raised to place into security those in- terests whose profits are enlarged when the peoples suffering is in creased-whose rights and powers are extended when the liberties and rights of the people are curtailed."
 Deploring the discriminate against the workers in favor of or gaEised industrial corporate inter ests the council declared that 1t will give attention to- the revision of plans by which the group rights of wage earners may be fully recognized and adequately safeguarded and so that corporate interests may no longer use their organized power to deny Il like right of organization and col iective power to the wage earners
 Claim Laws Misuscd
 The council declared that the con- spiracy and anti-combination laws were being misused against the workers in behalf of the corporate Interests and referred especially to fhe Kansas industrial court law as only another attempt to deny the wage earners the right of organiza- ton and of collective decision to pro- feet themselves against the encroach- ment of corporate wealth."
 The council" 1t was added. "pro- poses that a careful review and anal Ssis De made of all laws and legal doctrines of this kind, and if no ade- guate remedy can be devised to pre- vent the grievances and abuses now prevalent, then efforts be made tbs f Ill standardization laws and con spiracy doctrines which have been repeatedly used to prevent the work CTS exercising their collective rights and privileges. shall be wiped off our statute books"
 The council also declared that the Judlclary departments of both fedora; snd state governments have "seri- ously impaired the constjtutionaI rights of workers and characterized fome of their decisions, including Those of the United states supreme oufs, as narrow, strained and class plased interpretations"
 m behalf of the wage earners. ina council declared that it would not only protest against all these mai ciai decisions, legislative tenden ,ies snu practices of corporate interest S put proposes 10 undertake the organ. asation or local committees through out the land, and through them to famiilarize the public of all that Is