Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1922-06-14
NATION RULED BY
FIVE U. S. JUDGES,
LA TOILETTE SAYS
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Mr.. Gompers told tho delegates that
as far back as 1881 In the first consti-
tuition adopted by the federation,
declaration was Incorporated for the
enactment 70 state laws prohibiting
labor by children under IA years old.
Labor's program now. he snid. was
TO obtain adoption Of n constitutional
amendment, making possible federal
child labor law.
Mr.. Gompers. yesterday referred to
the report OF the federation's executive
council. apparently showing n loss Of
710.s93 members In the last year, but
he said the membership report showed
only union men who were paying
dues and that many Ind been exempt
ed from payments because Of unem-
ployment. Counting these. he said
the fact may be that we have lost
none at all" The statement then add
ed I'm part:
Tn 1920 the year I'm which our mem
y Pee ''~7 hIohcat we reported a.
o7s.740. We now report 3,195,651. one
fact To which | wish TO point Is that
tn!s - a membership of more than a
million over the figure for the last
pre-war year Those unions which
seem to show loss are the unions
most heavily engaged in war work
fortunately no longer necessary"
THE nine lawyers VINO constitute
the supreme court are placed in posi-
lions of power for life. not by the votes
OF the people but by presidential APP
pointment. Elk President Taft wa
made chief justice by President Hard
ing. Thus a man was invested with tho
enormous prestige and influence o.
Chief Justice by Presidential appoint
ment who had been repudiated by the
voters Of the United States on his rec
ord. No one will contend that no coult
have been elected Chief Justice b.
vote Of the people. And yet chic
Justice Taft wrote the opinion
that annulled the child labor law; n
wrote the opinion in the Coronad
Coal Company case"
II cannot be denied that we ar
ruled by n judicial oligarchy", tn
Senator asserted adding that Will
many of the minor federal judge
sharing the sovereign power" Of tn
Supreme court were excellent an
enlightened men. some of them, no
tably Judge Anderson. Of Indiana. IN
Judge McClntic Of eWst Virginia. hav
IN my opinion. shown Themselves TO b
petty tyrants and arrogant despots
The days program was opened b
the Central Labor Union of this cit
presenting Samuel Gompers presider
Of the federation, with an America
flag. The audience stood during III
lceremony, and with It's completio
Joined in singing America" and Il
Marseillaise."
Delegates favorinR radical chsna
In the American Trade Union move
ment made their first move in the cor
vention today by introducing resoll
ton for tho amalgamation Of existlr
: unions by industries into sinRis o
"a MIA tons
The resolution was introduced }
F.. n. Fitzgerald and others. repr'
senting the Brotherhood of Railwa
Clerks. and proposed that the Amer
can Federation Of Labor take II
necessary action toward brlngir
about the required solidarity with
the ranks Of organized labor. and tn;
as Il first step in this direction thu
. the various international unions
called into conference for the pu
, pose Of arranging to amalgamate q
! the unions in the respective industri
into single organizations, each
l which shall cover any industry"
BY the time the convention VI
. called 20 order. 113 resolutions h;
9 been received, among them one pr
posing that the American F'ederati,
( Of Labor take sides with the farme
9 In their controversy as to the a
s ceptance Of the Ford bid for q
- Muscle Shoals water power develo
= ment. made by the government du
4 ing the war. The resolution also pr
posed that the executive council Of q
!, Federation be instructed 10 use 8
0 means in its power 20 secure I
a vorable action on the final offer Of "
,. Ford to lease Muscle Shoals
s Several resolutions dealt with Ru
[ STA. The Brotherhood Of Railw;
Clerks asked that the American Fe
/, Grafton of Labor demand that u
United States government recogni
4 the present Russian government. a.
d that the State Department negotia
n a trade agreement with the Soviet.