The Ocala evening star., 1922-10-30
LABoR's QUESTIONABLE


candidates for Congress the follow
ing fifteen questions:
VIII you work and vote for law
that will take the profit out of war by
manufacturing battleships, munitions
and other implements of war in gov
ernment plants only?
If elected to Congress will you work
ard vote to repeal the Eseh Cummins
Railroad Law?
IL elected to Congress viii you work
and vote against the ship subsidy and
all other special interests?
Do you believe that five men on the
Supreme Bench who have not been
elected by the people, and who can
not be rejected by the people, should
be permitted to nullify the will of the
people as expressed by their repre-
sentatives in Congress and the Ex-
ecutive in the White House?
If elected, will you work and vote
for Constitutional Amendment re-
stricting the power of the Supreme
Court to nullify Acts of Congress?
If elected will you work and vote
against compulsory arbitration and
all attempts to destroy or restrict the
rights of labor organize, bargain col
lectively, and strike?
Will you work and vote for clean
cut Federal Statute prohibiting FEEDER
al judges from issuing injunctions in
industrial disputes?
Will you work to reinstate the ex-
cess profit taxes and maintain the
taxes on big incomes?
Will you work and vote to reduce
appropriations for the Army and
Navy to a pre-war basis?
Will you favor increased Federal
appropriations for education?
Will you work and vote for special
tax on war grafters and profteers to
pay the soldiers just compensation? ?
Will you work and vote for cltan-
cut corrupt practices act which will
put and end to Newberryism?
Will you work for and vote for the
Federal abolition of child labor and a
Constitutional Amendment for that
purpose of necessary?
Will you work and vote against the
passage of compulsory labor law?
Will you work and vote against q
sales tax on the food and necessities
of the poor?
1t will be seen by the foregoing
that organized labor expects Congress
to erect it into a privileged class.
This would bring about a condition of
affairs in which organized labor would
suffer with all the rest of US.
Organized labor with the exception
of mining is almost entirely nom
productive. 1t manufactures and
transports raw material but does not
produce it. This is left, broadly
speaking, to the farmer and stock
man, the people who supply food and
clothing. Union labor is nearly all
city and town labor. Added to this
is unorganized labor on the same
lines, also the parasites who do no
work at all. All these are like an in
verted pyramid, with the apex resting
on the shoulders of the farmer, who is
at the bottom. He will not be able
to carry the enormous and unequal
burden rnuch longer
Congressman should answer the
labor QUESTIONABLE and answer it
bravely. If they did the people would
stand by them.
The Esch- -Cummins law should not
be repealed. It should be amended
until it is more effectual.
It's the Stars opinion that ship
subsidy will be a bad measure, and
in that it agrees with organized labor
It will be a bad day for this coun-
try when it adopts an amendment al
lowing Congress or any other power
to override decision of the Supreme
Court. Americas Supreme Court is
the most able and highly respected
body of men in the world. Congress.
often passes foolish laws. Under the
pressure of passion and prejudice, il
might pass a law that would be not
only unconstitutional but fraugh'
with evil to the entire nation, o,
which organized labor is a part, ant
if the proposed amendment was adopt
ed Congress could in few hour.
make into law a measure that tn,
Supreme Court had rejected aftel
weeks of careful study, and tina
measure might work infinite harm
Any man who has studied the histor!
of our country, and wants to Civ
Congress the power to reverse tn,
Supreme Court is too blinded will
prejudice to form a clear opinion. In
stead of giving Congress power owe