Evening journal., 1922-09-11

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statement to the court asking that
the Injunction be made permanent.
He told OF the steps which had
been taken 10 serve notice on the
shopmen's officials OF issuance OF
the writ.
Bert NJ. Jewell head of the union
and other officials of the organiza-
tion were not in the courtroom. They
attended a meeting OF the shop
crafts policy committee in the
Masonic Temple, a few blocks dis
tant, where proposals for separate
peace with the railroads were dis
cussed.
The committee adjourned at 11.47
until / p. m. No action was taken
at the meeting and 1t was under
stood that the recess was taken
pending the outcome Of the Federal
Court arguments.
Attorney General Daugherty said
he would not subpoena any of the
shop craft officials while the peace
meetings were in progress. He also
announced he would not submit 70
any modification Of the injunction.
Besides Richberg. representing
the shopcraft officials, attorneys
were in the courtroom in the inter-
ests of the big four" brotherhoods.
They announced. however, they
would take no active part in the con-
duct of the case. Brotherhood at
torneys included Frank L. Mulhol-
land. Thomas Stevenson and oscar
Thorne, all of Cleveland.
Following Easterline. arguments
for dissolution Of the injunction |
were started by Richberg.
The attorney for the unions BIT
terly attacked the attorney general |
for his statement favoring the open
shop.
1T is not the business OF the at
torney general to aid the open fight"
Richberg said.
Pointing out what he claimed was
misrepresentation OF facts to the
court in obtaining the injunction. the
union attorney declared:
''The workers are under no legal
obligation to obey the decisions OF
the United States Railroad Labor
Board as the Attorney General has
attempted TO claim before the court.
Decisions OF the board are not
on the men. The board can
not keep the men from quitting their
jobs If its decisions are not satisfac-
tory.
Il wish to call attention to the
message of President Harding to
Congress In July in which the Pres
dent said men have just as much
right to work in place OF strikers
as the strikers have to quit
Richberg claimed the labor board
was inadequate and had no power
to enforce its decisions.
This power of endorsements OF
the boaLd,s decisions was deliberately
left out of the Esch-Cummins act by
Congress and courts have no author
fly TO read this power into the law"
he stated.
Richberg's argument was short.
He spent most of his time quoting ,
rom previous legal decisions up
iolding his contentious that the in
JUNCTION should be dissolved.
Alleged proof of a great nation
ride plot against the country's rail- !
Dads was to be presented in Judge
court while the govern !
lent's application for a permanent
ljunction against the striking shop
ien's union is being argued.
At the same time, II was under
TODD. the injunction was to be modi-
ed with parts alleged to conflict 1
18th free speech and such rights .
minated. 2
Attorney General Daugherty and a
great array of legal talent were 4
n hand to fight the governments a
ase. ,
A mass of evidence was expected
o be introduced to show that the
abroad shopmen had instituted
OF terrorism and sabot-
lge.
Federal agents carefully guarded .
carload of implements OF destruc- .
ion alleged to have been seized by :,
Federal agents in all parts OF the =
country. o
Thousands Of kilograms, letters,
books, plans and statements from
more than 1900 persons were in
,luded in the evidence. The strlk-
ng shopmen, against whom the in !
was aimed, were repre-
ented by a corps of legal talent. Z
1t was believed that hearings on
he motion TO make the injunction
permanent would occupy several
lays
Daugherty and his assistants l
rorked late into the linght perfect ?
lg their plans. 3
simultaneously with the injunc- :
on hearing, ninety members Of the :
lopcrafts' policy committee met in
bother section Of the city TO dis
iss peace terms reported TO have
zen tentatively agreed to between
score or more of railroads and
Iopmen's officials.
Bert NJ. Jewell, president of the
op crafts, informed the commit
e OF the details of the separate j
ace arrived at in secret confer ?
ces with road executives. 8
Bitter opposition to the separate a
ace proposals was expected. The
ans affect less than 25 per cent
the roads of the country.
Representatives of seventy-fve
n cent. Of the shopmen must yield IL
e issue of separate agreements" 2,
sfore the alleged peace can be
titled.
Snopmen's leaders refused to ex-
lain why they had decided to ac-
spt separate agreements after con- ,s
huaily asserting that any peace o.