The Washington times., 1922-06-19
LABOR. MAKING
READY. To FIGHT.
LEGAL RULINGS
Prominent Attorneys Called to
Convention to Frame Anti
Capital Campaign.
BY WARREN w. WHEATON,
International News Service.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 10
The greatest combine ever known
to organize labor in the United
States stands assured today to wage
q "show down" fight in the exist
ing coal strike and the now believed
inevitable railroad tie up.
Leaders of these two powerful
unions have approved the coalition
Of forces and nothing now but pos.
sible Government Intervention
stands in the way of marshalling
their strikefighting battalions for
the coming great industrial conflict.
Since the war we have been forced
back as far as we can 60 saiu Mat
thew Woll, vice president of the
American Federation OF Labor, today.
Our backs are to the wall aid we
must take the offensive at once
The main question to be settled
will come up Wednesday. when the
convention will frame the course It
will pursue in an effort to annul Su-
preme Court decisions considered ad
verse to labor.
Prominent Lawyers Called In.
The program dealing with the
courts is being formulated by a spe-
cial committee. which has sent for a
group of nationally prominent attor.
neys to meet II here tomorrow night
and give legal advice on the best
means for upsetting the decisions of
the high tribunal.
This committee may adopt in sub
stance the suggestions made by Sena.
tor La Toilette of Wisconsin. who
told fha rnnuanfian laaf WaAnaaduy ~
that inferior Federal judges should
be deprived OF the power Of declaring
a law unconstitutional and that Con-
gress should be given the power to
veto @Ipreme Court decisions.
A"Jther development expected
this yeek will be the adoption OF a
fighting program by the striking
miners and railroad men who are
voting on a walk-out.
Representatives Of these men win
meet Tuesday 10 outline their
course. The proposal for the joint
campaign was made by b. NJ. Jew
ell, head Of the railroad men who
are voting on the walkout. II has
been enthusiastically endorsed by
John L. Lewis. head of the miners.
In an interview today Mr.. Lewis
said conditions confronting the min
ers and the railroad men we're
brought about by the same power
full reaction interests"
Railroad men cannot accept the
wage reductions, and, more than
that, they can not accept the pr'n.
ciples by which those reductions
were reached. They must fight End
they will have the whole-souled CO.
operation of the miners" he as
serted
Executives OF the railroad unions
addressed an open letter to Ben w.
Hooper, vice chairman Of the board,
bitterly criticising the boards de.
cisions and telling Hooper they had
submitted the questions to a strike
vote and would endorse the stand
the men will take.
WIN Sanction Strike.
Your decisions have been sub.
mitted to a strike VOTE" the letter
states, "and II our members decide
to strike we shall sanction their
action.
There is no provision in the
law providing for an appeal against
decision Of your body, however
unfair II may be. The only means
OF remedy, therefore. against a mis-.
carriage of justice of such colossal
injury to railroad workers as your
decisions will bring about is to re-
fuse to accept your decisions"
Other big issues % be fought out
this week will be that Of interna-
tional relations, the resolution for
the recognition of Soviet Russia,
several jurisdictional disputes. rein
statement Of the maintenance Of
way men and the fight between the
carpenters and other unions in the
building trades.