The labor world., 1922-10-07

ire to apply the remedy.
Justice Degenerates.
There can be little respect for the
department of justice until that de-
partment shall respect the consti-
tuition and laws of the land. Within
the memory of this generation
there has been degeneration of
the federal department of justice.
Federal courts and federal district
stances engines of oppression for the
poor, denying them their constitu-
tional rights while at the same time
they have aided and abetted GRIM
inal conspiracies in robbing the peo-
pie of their natural wealth and pri-
vileges.
The Sherman act, perfectly de-
signed to prevent conspiracies In
restrain of trade, has been flouted
by the department of justice until
it is a dead letter.
The bill of rights of our consti-
tuition is wilfully violated by district
attorneys and judges sworn by
solemn oath to uphold it.
- Conduct During War.
During the late war free men were
cruelty and inhumanly punished for
no other effense than the exercise Of
the undoubted constitutional rights
OF free speech and free assemblage.
At the same time traitors to their
country and traitors to the boys at
the front were allowed to freely rob
the government and go unwhipped
of justice. Even an ex-justice Of the
United States. occupying a high
cabinet position. justifies the pur-
chase of a seat in the United States
senate and the corruption of the
electorate of a great state with
hundreds of thousands of dirty
money.
What has become of the lawyers
Of the old days, who would bodily
grapple with criminal wealth and
-denouneeeits before the, world :? Tbs
department of justice needs men OF
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The last disgrace OF this great de-
partment, the logical conclusion Of
It's past performances, came only a
few days ago when the attorney gem
eral of the United States securea
from a plant federal judge a writ
of Injunction in open violation of
the federal constitution and acts OF
congress.
-: Oppresses Citizens.
When Attorney General Daugh-
erty secured an injunction from
Judge Wilkerson at Chicago, pre-
venting workingmen from the ex-
erclse Of their constitutional rights
Of peaceful assemblage, freedom of
speech and the lawful use OF their
property, he used his high position
and the great powers of a free gov
ernment to illegally oppress the citi-
zens of this land:
No workman has a right to de-
stroy property. to endanger life or
interfere with the rights Of others
For any such offense, if committed
he may and Should he punished
through an orderly procedure pro-
.v1ded by law. But the Injunction
obtained by the attorney general had
no such offense and no such punish
ment in view. It had as its purpose
putting workinsmen in fear Of ar
bitrary punishment for contempt Of
court for no offense at all. The
Injunction was all-conclusive, in
Guiding the prohibition Of any act
Of sympathy for the striking work.
men. It prevented any act of hui
manity towards the strikers on the
part Of any citizen. 1t was to strike
terror into the hearts of our people
who might-in the exercise of a con-
stitutional right-take the side of
the workmen in their fight for a.
living wage.
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Besides being a violation Of the
federal constitution, the injunction
granted at Chicago is clearly a vio-
lation of the spirit of the Clayton
act Of congress. That act in part
reads as follows: II -
= And no such restraining order or
Injunction shall prohibit any person
or persons, whether, singly or in
concert. from terminating any re-
lation Of employment, or from ceas-
Ing to perform any work or labor,
or from recommending, advising or:
persuading others by peaceful means
50 to do; jor from attending at any
place where any such person OF per-
sons may lawfully be. for the pur-
pose Of peacefully obtaining or COM
information, or from
peacefully persuading any person to
work or to abstain from working;
or from ceasing to patronize or to
employ any party to such dispute,
or from recommending. advising or
persuading others by peaceful and
lawful means so to do; or from pay
Ing or giving to, or withholding
from, any person engaged in such
dispute any strike benefit or other
moneys or things Of value: or from
peaceably, assembling in q lawful
manner and for lawful purposes; or
from doing any actor thing which
might lawfully be done IN the ab-s !.
sencs Of such dispute by any party
thereto; nor shall any Of the acts
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