Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-06-13

| Possibility of "relief from the con-
stitutional use of the writs of in
! junction" by legislative action lay
in the political field, the report said.
| The executive council described
| its renewal of non-partizan political
campaign organizing in advance of
| the fall elections and expressed sat
| isfaction over the wonderful enthus-
iasm expressed" by every local or
ganization of labor in the effort
/ which it said proved that mot only
the wage earners, but the great
mass of our citizenship are crying
for relief The campaign effort will
| be to focus votes behind a program
of Opposition to compulsory labor
| law" and Opposition to injunctions
and contempt proceedings as sub
stitute for trial BY jury" the council
said
| Congress has proved that only
those who are well-to-do or control
great interests can induce it to lis
! ten the council said, in detailing
| the reason why it asked the Fedora
ton to enter tie campaign for sat
are slowly penetrating the minds of
the people. They are beginning to
realize the change they thought they
wanted has been an injury instead
of benefit. Unless there is a change
in the personnel (of the House and
Senate people can prepare them
selves for still greater and greater
suffering and injustice
The idea seems to prevail that
tho outcome of the 1920 elections
means that every liberty of the PEG
pie can he taken away provided some
individual or group of individuals
representing the privileged few de-
sire it for their benefit" the report
continued THE statement is often
made that if the United states cap
itol could be transported to the Eng
land Of the fifteenth century, half
the members Of Congress would be
10 the manner born"
State legislative bodies also were
taken TO task in some cases, chiefly
in tie matter of compulsory arb-
tration laws. The Kansas industrial
court was described as IAN utter
failure" and similar Legislation in
Colorado was said to be equally as
absurd and fully as dangerous"
President Harding was accused of
having contemplated "a, system Of
industrial laws similar to those
which prevail in Kansas" when in
lis me ssagC TO Congress last Deccm-
Der he declared that lin the case of
labor organizations we might well
apply similar ana equally Wcll-dc-
ilucd principles Of regulation and Sn-
per>isiou Gas lc lad Just previously
leronn.c hdcd Ton cOrporations) in
order to conserve the public's inter-
c$iS as affected by their operations"
1T is hardly believed possible"
the report adds. that the President
implied that the present administra-
ton intends to further a policy
which will deny Americas workers
tho right to cease working colleC-
lively and to determine for them
selves the conditions under which
they Will give service. Yet the Ian
cuaGc used leaves little room for
different conclusion.'
THE decisions of the Railroad "a
Dor Board have given satisfaction
neither to the workers or the man
agement," the report remarked in
considering the compulsory arbitra-
ton subject as demonstrated in
transportation fields. They have
tended to ward a mere general do
moralization of morale of mechani-
cal forces. The E,sch- Cummins law,
through the Board. has practically
destroyed the concept of voluntary
agreements between employers and
workers and the subject of compen-
satiOn for services has become a CON
slant source of litigation and irri-
tatiOn."
Returning to direct labor matters
organized labor scored n victory, the
report said. against organized cam
nai@ns for the csta Enlistment of the
so-callcd open shop"
''Chambers of commerce through
out the country. with certain not
able exceptions. have lent them
selves to this descriptive propa gan
da." the report stated. The United
States Chamber of Commerce is
about to begin construction of So
oOO,WO headquarters building in
Washington on the open shop ha-
sis. The experiment is to be tried
in the capital Of the. nation on so
pretentious a scale as will undoubt-
odly he watched with great interest
by the workers and employers alike.
There is but one answer to the
| entire campaign Of employers for the
disruption and destruction Of the la
Dor movement, and that is contin-
ued organization. eternal vigilance,
and the highest degree of SOLIDARITY"
Banks have lent assistance to bus
| mess organizations ito compel en-
ploNerS who desired to deal fairly
with the trade unions to alter their
course" the report further asserted.
In this connection it was suggested
that the boycott was available.
savings and deposits Of wage
workers in banks must be so con-
trolled by workers as to protect fully
the wage earner's interest in this
contest" was the proposal advanced.
Operations OF the Federation of
Labor in manifold directions were
discussed in brief paragraphs in the
report. out OF more than 400 bills
introduced in Congress" during the
present session, it was said, $50 per
cent are inimical TO the interests Of
labor and the people,"
i period of declining prices hav-
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