The labor world., 1922-09-09

kellOgg's Bad Bill.
"The protection Of aliens" he says,
lis an excuse to abrogafe state
rights. Passage Of the kellogg mea-
sure would make ineffective Section
20 of the Clayton act regulating in
functions and would place power in
the hands of equity courts far be-
regular courts"
3 Writing on legislation now before
congress, w. C.. Robert, chairman of
the A. +. of L., legislative committee
states that three bills now before
congress are so reactlonary and
drastic in their nature that Opposi-
ton to them is growing at a rapid
rate. The titles of the bills should
read:
Compulsory Labor.
Providing for compelling workmen
to work against their will, otherwise
to establish compulsory labor.
Providing for the deportation of
aliens (and their families) who par
ticipate in union meetings which
many call strikes and for other
purposes"
Providing for the eradication Of all
state lines by permitting the federal
courts to enforce alleged treaty
rights of aliens by force Of bullets,
bayonets and 16-inch naval guns if
necessary.
i Senator Spencer is the author of
the compulsory labor bill Is. $500.
He proposes that a "court of con-
Citation" shall be appointed by the
President to be confirmed by the
senate which will h%xep all the powers
Of federal court. It can meet any
where in the United States it may
choose or the president send it. 1t
shall: have jurisdiction to hear and
determine controversies ,or disputes
affecting the operation of interstate
CONNIE &c. All other acts in conflict
would be repealed. This would elm
mate the railroad labor board and
provide the necessary teeth" to pun
ish labor that are absent in the law
creating the labor board.
Senator Spencer has issued an ul-
timatum to la Or He says:
No Choice For Labor.
IF labor does not take my bill it
will have to take some other bill
that proposes to stop strikes which
may be worse in its provisions"
This does not seem possible.
Senator Kellogg is responsible for
one of the bills IS. 1943) that pro-
poses to wipe out state rights and
all state laws concerning foreigners
by giving jurisdiction over them to
the federal courts. The bill provides
that the attorney general will be
authorized i'll the name and on be-
half of the United States to file a
bill in equity in the proper district
court of the United States against
any person Or persons threatening to
violate any light of a citizen or sub
ject Of a foreign country under any
treaty between the United States and
such foreign country; this provision
shall apply to acts threatened by
state officers under the alleged JUS
tification of a law of the legislature
of the state in which state such acts
are to be committed"
Chiresc Exclusion.
The proposed law undoubtedly
would make ineffective the laws of
California against Japanese land
ownership and other laws passed by
Z the various states for the protection
~of American citizens against aliens.
1t should be remembered that Presi-
dent Wilson sent Mr.. Bryan, who
was then secretary of state, to Cali
fornia to protest against the passase
of the anti-Japanese land-owning
law.
Section 4 directs :ttention to the
seriousness of intention of the franz
ers of the bill. 1t would give the
right to the president to violate one
of the most CHERISHED guarantees of
the federal constitution. 1t is only
necessary to read it to be Mortified
at the results which will surely fol-
low If the bill becomes a law. Sec
ton is as follows:
1.-THE president of the United States
is hereby expressly authorized to use
the marsha1s of the United States
and their deputies to maintain the
/ peace when diturbed by the COM
mission cf such acts as ara created
VI crimes in the preceding SECTION; and
should, In his Judgment, the circum-
!. stances delnald it,. he is empowered
Ito, use the army and navy for the
4 same putpose.".-
Power of Dictator.
All thai will be necessary to cause
the presJdent to send the. army or
navy into a state is for some aliens
to he "disturbed' by the commits
(, sion iof am act by someone else that
mighta'create u crime"
u Representative Ed1nonds' bill lH.
4 iR. Hf2344 provides for the deporta-
5lti0n OF aliens who participate in what
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