New-York tribune., 1922-04-23
"IWill Show You One Be.
fore I'm Through.'' Is
Reiori of Unterrnvcr
at Lockwood Hearing
Witness Admits
Unions Injustice
But Insists Wrongs Arc
Preferable to Court
Regulation of Cases

II
samul GomrerS, president Of Tho
/ american Federation of Labor. appear
n for the second time yesterday as q
.'sr witness before The Lockwood Hous-
rg Committee III City Hall, admitted
\ .ndcr examination that abuses shown
"a exist among labor unions were "far-
etched. wrong. unjustifable and ir
cases ludicr5us'
These abuses. he agreed. often di3
great injustice to fellow workers and
aused immense losses TO innocent en-
oyers. There was no way within the
INKS Of organized labor, by disci-
me or otherwise, he conceded, OF
.aeckne the condition at the present
'oe except through tho voluntary acts
oi the Umon'zed workers themselves.
He stood firmly opposed to giving
power to any government agency, how
ever, with view 20 redrcseing these
T1ongs. " hen Samuel Untermyer. the
examining counsel. insisted that the
Ijured parties should be given some
iemedy IN view of. the helplessness Of
the union leaders to offer substantial
assistance, Mr.. Gompers recommended
patience and bearing with the ills we
rave rather than fly to others we know
OF of
you can't put the American work
nan into a legal straitjacket," Mr.
Jompers asserted, adding laughingiy,
4 would Ike to see a statute drawn I'D
nat y~ouiG Limit the oc+ivit;ee ~ o,,
ysri,sd Iabor"
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.one IN confron4 ,,or ,,;++, ofa a+,l -
.et vo,r annrnv.i ~ - hofnro 4nc Nt'o 20
tbronob ;, 'f''' - @e'
""ulu hat"er see ABUSES
Nevertheless, the spokesman for or
ganized labor expressed the opinion he
would rather see the conditions. no
matter how great the distress or wrong,
20 unchecked than have them remedied
BY law. Mr.. Untermyer retorted that
unless they were soon corrected By
aw the abuses would completely par
ME~e al oulidlhg operations "lthn
"e cI'y, II not enrouenou6 tne countfT,
ne evan lha[lon 'ot MY uompefs
la'he" VIII even more mc>SiVc
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W. nv 'nInh tne ee"' eS'Ioh
WI 'Gu Hu0n AoouV your views on
.n 'GHoIu4ea !ue GouHSe1'
40 not 'hlhk | VII worry much
s0ogt their vlews' MIR. Gompers re
pIisd, .....
Compers quotes att
NJ. Gompers quoted the portion of
speech Of Senator Norris, of Nebra ska,
published in the Congressional Record.
upon which the labor chief predicated
h!s criticism of the courts and re-
terrej to the following quotation from
eN-Presi dent Taft, now Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court: Owe must make
b so tha. the poor man will have az
nearly as possible an equal tppor-
unity I'm litigation as the rich man, and
rat under present conditions. ashamed
AZ We NAV he of f. this is not the
act" EIihn Root, former Secretary Of
State. also was quoted substantially TO
ne same eject
TIE question of the various and nu-
merous abuses of labor unions "a thev
rave been revealed at previous sessions
n the committee was then taken IN
aT stands o t0day men eIpelfd 1 Ne from from