The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-09-02
So Aver Compers and Other
Labor Heads Concerning
Federal Order.
Call 1t Outrage" Assert
ing 1t Should Be Treated
As Scrap Of Paper.
Funds and Supplies to Be
Raised In Aid of Men
Involved In Strife.

Washington. Sept l.-Eegardiess or
the injunction issued at Chicago to-day
the American Federation Of Labor Will
continue to raise funds and supplies IN
aid OF railroad strikers. its president
Samuel Gompers. declared tonight. and
Will seek every way to help them 10
bring about IAN honest adjustment or
! their controversy.
Condcmnirg the injunction. Mr.. Com
| pers declared II represented 'usurpatoh
t OF power by courts" and asserted the
! federation would continue supporting
tho strike with money and AID.
The Injunction. he said. might he sur
ring up II hornets nest instead OF PI'''
! fying the existing unsettlement. be
! cause there are other railroad workers.
! the trainmen. the teleGraphers, the
Imatntenance-of-wa men. who may now
! become interested.
"I do not know wha, they will DO
however" he remarked. m Just men,
! tioning them"
This Injunction is a most outrageous
thing. process OF the manufacture OF
radlcalism and Bolshevism In this Coun-
! try" Mr.. Gompers continued. II -
| quite strange in our republic t"Vnu,,"
on the principles OF liberty. that the
! " =.
| coin and Carlson to the ah"i'H"n OF
hrnan slavery. should now he cnSaGcn
| /, n movement for. the restoration oi
compulsory human labor.
VIII sondify Men.
"1 ar, nui,e sure the result Of this in
| nnction will only be to snlidity the men
| md IN strengthen the support OF pubic
onin,or behind them. We see that the
/ .ai,ronds need no lawyers in the matter
| for Attorney General Daugherty ana tne
! aenartment of justice becomes the a.-
| torney of the railroad companies. "n'Ie
| tbe action amounts 10 concession |"at
! yha strike Is TO be successful II
! strange that all powers OF the SOL
| ment should he brought 10 toESe 're
| surrender Of rights by the men. 49,
! nor one move has been ni""e ~ ,ro eoi-
n,,n,, IN enforce decisions OF the ran
"a labor board when o. railroads !"
80 .rnor.,. cases have violated l's Vi
ders." -
| ,.,,,,.., declared the injunction was
/ ...,,,r,r.ous" and AN INVASION VI 80,
,.,rs,IIu,ional rights OF WIrh'"'
and should be so regarded iI0 .,,,,
d ions view. he added was "S cNp' p,,,,r
nravinus occasions, that ihJu"''
J Invading constitutional rights s""u'N
,rcatcd "as scraps of paper ,,c NJ.
! Turnins to the injunction llS',' t"r,
/ C:oupers said he was ihio' '''u ,i,,as
/ Saaa ..,b. men or their represch'a'''.
IN write letters, circulate S'".
! word of mouth or o'h'' aio ,n1
1 ..,T-h,, dId'nt they stop the rad.o "n"
D hn,,, usin,, the ether? ne III
',,,,Dnd 'U'o o The American Federation "
Itahor bos advIsed men In previous !"
! i,nc,ion cases to treat as scraps "l P'
'" .,>s, court orders which lhN""'
| thcjr constitutional rights.
| IL ,.,s asked here II he c"nSiu'Fet
| ,nis Injunction to invade CONSTITUTIONAL
! rights. I, ,,os-I know
!. dons". he exclaimed emrhauc".'''
, "Dut I am not advising the men W,,tI ',,,
! IN do. assume they KNOW i"''
/ uye their own judgment -, =,
, PRESIDENT Harding. lie SuSGca''" ~
,,hnr matters "waS going back 70 H''-
. ,,olrv--several centuries back
mi, president has twice sought lr"'n
: ..a.s LEGISLATION forbiddinE strikes
: ho said. "aud congress had refuse" ~
. ,.r,,, /, Now It - proposed 20 80
further by court order than ca" W.
',nno by legislation. If there IS any
! .,i unlawful in the action OF men on
s,rike they can b" indicted, prosecutor
and punished IL convicted. 'u' rso;. ts
aro M, charged with rrimc. IheF
a,onnod work. That is all. Thcy are
", ,ntarferrlng with railroad opera
,ions: they have simply ceased /" Se'N =
| Tho only thing the injunction d"S not
do 10 20 order them /" return q" ""i H.
"Eons OF them, the injunction says
! ,oy .,aunt' men who a"c at work. We
never heard of taunt!ng as " N'"l't."n
~ law. They must not call these t"''
In,..s scabs | suggest they call them
instead industrial angels
The federation Of labor VIII continue
20 "a ,hcS. mon in every poSSlhIn way
~ eecurc an honorable adjust or their
s,-;ke and Will appeal TO all working
,,oonra and sympathizers for contribu-
,Ions Of money and supplies I" main
min them and their families while they
! .rhe executive council "f the fedora
ITO, Mir Gompers added, would con-
siJa- AZ m early meeting whether It's
own representatives would enter the
oaso IN an endeavor to have the In
junction voided.
Ho,h nj the white house and the de-
,artmen, of justice direct comment
ryas withheld on The sudden appeal OF
,bo Government to the federal courts
~ tbe railroad situation. officials in
.Iu,iny that the governments brief
i"spoke for Itself