The Connecticut labor news., 1922-06-16

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 keep up tis spirit as it has resisted | The report declares that American la from the widespread unemployment l ents more active and determined than l In addition to strictures on the 1 cases, the report added explicit and
 some state legislative bodies, dec1ari to be "succunbing to wace of re 1 action of some courts, including the l scribed as President Harding's propo "It is with no little satisfaction in view of these circumstances" the re- port on the other hand declared, "that we are able to lay before this | convention a report of achievement, a report of solidarity, a report of | constructive planning, and a report that not only inadequately portray the militant spirit with which our 1 movement has come through the years. The audacity of those who have made 1t their business to attack | in every possible manner the soldar- , ity organizations of the workers has had no parallel in our country. What our movement has been compelled to meet has been a condition in which the predatory powers have sought to break down all resistance in every
 
 l the expense of the whole people, No experience has testified as eloquently to the fundamental soundness of our organizations and to the manner in which they serve the workers. We shall fight with a greater confidence , because of the record that has been made"
 The report declared that in the direct labor field "workers in a num- Der of industries have been com pelled to resort to cessation of work" because "organized emplov- CTS" were unwilling to meet work CTS in conference for negotiation" The most important instance of this policy was declared to be the cause of the existing coal mine strike, al though troubles in the textile, gar ment, printing, granite, and pack ing house industries also were cited.
 The organized mine owners re pudlated their agreement with the United Mine Workers of America" the report said, "compelling the mine workers to cease work. Packing house employers were likewise guilty of violation of agreement. The contest going on among employers and the printing trades union involves a con
 
 violation of an agreement by em- ployers and their associations
 "We have recorded only these vio- latlonS of agreement by employers which are of national importance. We know no similar period of time in which there have been so many wanton violations of contract on the part of great organizations of em- ployers. We submit that 1t is vital essential that there be a return ol good faith in industry, a return to standards of morality which will re- store the pledges of men to their true and proper meaning. If it is impos- sible to have faith in pledges given, | then the entire industrial structure will be undermined"
 Turning next to courts, the eNecu- l tive council protested most empha- l tically against such unjust and inhu- mane decisions" as that of the su- to abolish child labor in the United l States. Congress "by this decision, must keep it's hands off when the 1 health and life and well being of the nations children are concerned" the l report asserted, adding that the 'su premc court of today is far more legalistic and less humane in it's at titude and temperament than was the supreme court of 1918"
 The year is marked particularly with an increasing hostility of the judiciary toward the effort of wage earners to prevent deterioration of their standards of life and labor," the report continued, ''and we recom- mend that an appeal be made to that higher court of public judgment, and that the public conscience be aroused to the great and grave menace which confronts the perpetuity of the con ,titutoinal rights and liberties of-all ceived by the founders of our re- [. public"
 Instances of most fragrant abuses of equity power" were declared to be in Federal Judge Ander- sons order at Indianapolis enjoining of the "check-off' sys- e moi collecting miners unoin dues, md in Federal Judge McClintic's de ,ision i'll West Virginia against strikers of the same union in tha; state This latter decision the report as ''conclusiVe evidence hat the injunction as used is devoid of all sense of fairness and dcCenCy and that our courts of equity can be turned conveniently into instruments of the greatest iniquity whenever 1t will bsct serve the interests of soul : ess corporations and mad desire for wealth.. I
 Possibility of "relief from the con ( ,titutoinal use of the writs of iniunc , ion" by legislative action lay in the political field, the report said. ,
 The executive council described it's ( renewal of non-partisan political cam 1aign organizing in advance of the all elections, and expressed "satis , action over the wonderful enthusi. ism expressed" by every local organ f 1ation of labor in the effort which it said proved that mot only the wage , but the great mass of our are erwin" for relief" The