Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-02
LABOR PROTEST TALKS
MADE AGAINST INJUNCTION
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ternational Union.
The for the present Late of
affairs, as far as the granting of
injunctions are concerned Mr.. Reil-
ly declared, lies with the citizens
themselves as they haven't given the
attention to their rights as working
men and as citizens. He impressed
upon the men that organized labor
should be the last to object to in
functions, and that the meeting to-
day was not called to object to the
injunctions but to the abuse of in
functions. He pointed out that the
Injunction fills a requirement where
there is no law for that purpose and
should be preserved to bring things
to a stop when they reach such a
point that material damage would
follow.
New Jersey has had its full quota
of injunctions, and for years labor
has been cited in contempt of court
for picket duty, but not one legis-
lature has designated picketing a
criminal thing or a disorderly act,
said the speaker, who also declared
that courts could go on year after
year granting injunctions against
picketing wherever a friendly at
torney appeared before a friendly
court and had him sign the neces-
sary papers.
Mr.. REILLY emphatically stated
that it is time that labor makes the
abuse of the ~injuncticns the para
mount issue of their campaign. He
SAID that he assumed most of those
present we're working men and citi-
and pointed that certain of
their rights are jeopardized. He
declared that the American Labor
movement does not stand for the
overthrow of the government in al
vising meetings such as this one and
that the good to come from this
meeting is not the mere protes,
against the Injunction. but is
whether or not those present are
going to weigh matters of party and
platform.
He told of a conversation between
George L. Record and Lindsey M.
Garrison, in which Garrison de-
clared to Record that there is no
law to uphold a request for an in
junction against labor and that both
Record and Garrison held that opin-
ion. In closing he declared that the
use of the injunction had been
abhStQ w oil dLLOllCy eClCid
whose past life has been more or
less open to suspicion.
J. A. Phillips, the next speaker, de-
clared that the injunction could not
make a man go to work unless he
wants to and that the man who
does go to work under the protec-
tioI. of an injunction is nothing more
or less than a scab. Mr.. Phillips is
a forceful speaker and time after
time he had to stop his discourse
while the audience applauded his
remarks.
Mr.. Phillips told of the organized
movement on the part of organized
capital to bring about what they
termed the deflation of labor, argu-
ing that since the war was over we
must get back to normally. He de-
clared that the country had select
ed a representative as president who
it he had done nothing else, did coin
the term ~'normalcy," a term never
before known to the English Ian
guage and a term which was meant
be the most terrific battle organ
lied that ever had confronted those
who are the producers in the whole
history of human existence.
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through the Chamber of Commences.
K1wanis and Rotary clubs and to
considerable extent existed in the
.so-called fraternal organizations, 10
wage a campaign against the work.
ers, to put him in his proper place.
He declared that after they had
strikes they would have ac-
complished what was their idea and
4 hot 1ahnr would ha m 1TSa6 fhof ir
would find itself in the condition
which existed in pre-war times.
They forced strikes on the Building
Trades, railroads, mines and every
else. he said. that labor had
had been able to demand and Sc
cure what labor was entitled to.
He then told Of the part the
laboring man had taken in the war.
how sixty per cent of labor march
ed across the seas and saved democ-
racy, and how this had been forgot
ten by those back of the drive to
get labor back to normally, to
where men worked from ten %
and sixteen hours a day. He
pointed out how the selfish inter-
during the val had educated
the laboring man up to the ideals of
democracy and that they had stayed
educated to such IN extent that they
the fierce onslaught and stood
together in a position that
them of going back stronger than
ever in the history Of time.
Eighteen months ago, said Mr..
Phillips, the building trades started
to cut wages. The men at that time
were receiving $1,25 and s1.75 per
hour. The very same building
crafts Ire now employing the men
at the same rate and in some in
are bidding higher for labor.
In the textile mills they were paying
thirty-ffve and e~ighty-five cents per
hour. then came the reduction and
the strike and now today, declared
the speaker, some mills are paying
as high as ninety cents an hour for
The miners stood out firm, Mr..
Phillips continued, even in view of
the fact that they had no strike
benefits and lived for the most part
on charity. and today they are
back at work at the war wage, and
will be a long time said he, before
they tackle the miners again.
He declared that the railroad
strikers have won the victory and
that although some may think that
IL Jewell had stood out for a blanket
agreement they would have been
off the railroad men can ex-
a settlement of their difficult
ties on az equally good terms as
any on the western roads.
AS for the Typographical Union,
Mr.. Phillips told of the establish
ment Of a forty-four hour week In
commercial shops which took place
during the Industrial depression He
brought to the attention of the men
that they can not expect to get
something for nothing. and il theY