Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-02
INJUNCTION NOT
To HALT AIDING
UN|ONS,GONP PERS
A. F. of L. Will Continue to
Raise Funds and Render
Other Assistance to the
Striking Shopmen.

standing the issuing Of an injunc-
ton in Chicago today, Samuel
Gompers, president of the Fedora
ton of Labor declared tonight that
the Organization will continue to
raise funds to aid striking rail-
road workers and will seek every
way to assist them to secure IAN
honorable adjustment of their
controversy.
Mr.. Gompers characterized the
injunction as Outrageous" and IAN
invasion of the constitutional
rights of workingmen."
He added that the federation
view was as previously expressed,
that injunctions invading constitu-
tional rights should be regarded as
scraps Of paper"
Condemns Injunction.
Condemning the injunction, Mr..
Gompers declared it represented
usurpation of power by courts, and
asserted the federation would con-
tinue supporting the strike with
money and aid.
The injunction. he said, might
be stirring up a hornets nest in
stead of pacifying the existing un-
settlement, "because there are
other railroad workers, the train
men. the telegra piers, the mainte-
nance of way men, who may be-
come Interested ~
"I don't know what they Will
do, however, he remarked, I'm
lust mentioning them"
This injunction is most out
rageous thing-~a process of the
manufacturer of radicalisn and
bolshevism in this country" Mr..
Gompers continued. ut is quite
strange in our republic, founded
on the principles of liberty, that
the political party which was led
by Lincoln and Garrison TO the
abolition of human slavery, should
now be engaged in movement Tor
the restoration of compulsory hu-
man labor.
VIII Solidify Men,
"I am quite sure the result Of
this injunction will only be TO
solidify the men, and to strengthen
the support of public opinion be
hind them We see that the rail-
roads need no lawyer in these
matters, for Attorney Genera !
Daugherty and the department oil
Justice becomes the attorney OF the
Cailroad companies. While the ac-
ton amounts to a confession that
tne strike IS 10 be successful, 1t IS
strange that all powers of the
government should be brought to
force the surrender of rights by
the men, when not one move mas
been made by the government 10
enforce the decisions OF the ran
road labor board when 92 railroads
in 1O4 separate cases have violated
it's orders" .,
Turning to the injunction itself,
Mr., Gompers said he was informed
il forbade "the men or their repre-
sentatives to write letters, circu-
late statements by word of mouth
or otherwise"
"Why didn't they stop the radio.
and forbid them using the ether
he inquired. THE American FED
Grafton of Labor has advised mem
bers in previous injunction cases
TO treat as scraps of paper those
court orders which invade thelf
rights =,
He was asked here II he consul
cred this injunction to invade con-
stitutional rights. [ don't conslder
if does-I know it does" he eX-
claimed emphatically. But L am
not advising the men what to 90,
assume they know. They VIII
Use their own judgment.
Going Back to Normally.
President Harding, he suggesteu'
in labor matters, was going back
ia normalcy, several centuries
back" -,..
The president has twice sought
from congress legislation iorplu-
ding strikes" he said, "and con
gress has refused to grant It, NO"
il Is proposed to go further ny
co,Irt order than can he done by
If there is anything
unlawful in the action of men on
strike, they can be indicted prose
cuted and punished if convicted
Bnt they are not charged WIN
crime. They stopped work; tnat
is all. They are not interfering
with railroad operation; they have
simplv ceased to serve, The only
thing the injunction doesn't do is
to order them to return to work.
The executive council of inc
Mr.. Gompers added
would consider at an early meeting
whether its own legal representa-
tives would enter the case in an en-
deayor to have the injunction
Voided.