Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-08-04

wage earners from any written, oral.
or other attempt On their part 70
aequaint the public With the facts. OF
present their side Of the case ard
they are informed that any violation
Of the injunction vii Re punished At
the discretion Of the courts ~eoh-
science
On the one hand. organized EN-
ployers carry into effect we'll
planned nation wide campaign to de
stroy trade-uniens. on the other, the
equity court restraints trade unionists
from striking. OF If they are on
strike, restraints them from communal
eating the facts connected with the
dispute through the press. through
public meetings. or otherwise, Their
night To free speech Is deliberately
destroyed. The employer who has
been the aggressor is left free and
unhampered in the use Of his con-
stitutional rights. The wage earner's
hands are shackled. his mouth gagged
and, so far as the court of equity may
do SO. he is rendered incapable Of
doing anything for his f-proteetion.
viii the unions permit themselves
to be deStroyedf
Is il To be true that tradc-union
organizations shall exist only when
and where the employer grants con-
sent, and that If he objects, equity
courts viii sustain. him in whatever
efforts he makes to destroy the trade
union organization of his employees
From the facts which have been
presented il is evident that in many
cases where an injunction Is issued,
the wage Garner must choose between
the rights guaranteed by our Consti-
tuition and the inhibitions, command
ments and edicts of an equity court,
Efforts TO prohibit free speech, and
the right TO form and maintain trade
unions have been made In other coun-
tries. as well as In the United States.
Thay have always failed because an
intelligent, freedom loving people
have refused To tolerate any sucn
tyrannical conditions.
The unconstitutional edicts of
American courts of equity will meet
with similar response from the
mass of American citizens. Love of
justice, Of freedom, of equal rights
are too deeply imbedded in our
American institutions and too firmly
/ ilElEiHtu III ttit lttiAtI31 NtAftn w
long permit Of those abuses by courts
of equity which We have reviewed.
Labor will not permit itself to be
strangled without resistance, or TO
be gagged by an equity court whose
authority for its usurped power is its
conscience"
As between our constitutional
guarantees and the ediets of equity
courts there can be no compromise;
one or the other must survive and
dominate. Neither the wage Garner
or the citizenship of our country will
long permit government by judicial
conscience" To supersede govern
ment by law, based upon the prin-
ciples enunciated in the Constitution.
For every wrong there must be q
redress. So speaks the law. So AS
serts labor. There must be redress
against this encroachment, this usur.
patton, this e-constitutionalizing Of
America. There will be redressl In
the organization of labor lies this
wage earners' strength. Through or.
ganized labor star hambers--courts
of equity from which inequity issnes
contempt and all the inquisitorial pro.
ceedings of an un-Ameriean type will
be destroyed. The spirit of the found
ers and trainers of our Constitution
will again be given the breath Of HE
that we may live to cherish and to en-
! joy the blessings of a FREE AMERl-
ICA.