New-York tribune., 1922-09-05
Business
Breeding Reds,
Gornpers Holds
Injunction Is Confession of
Victory for Rail Workers
and a Goblin Created TO
Scare Unions, Says Leader
Assails Daugherty Motive
Look Out for Smoke Of u. S.
Labor When Prosperity Is
at Flood Tide, He Warns

PHILADELPHIA, styt. 4.--The legal
ity of the injunction obtained by the
United States against the striking rail-
road shopmen was attacked this after
noon by Samuel Gompers, president
of the American Federation of Labor,
at Labor Day address before 1900,
union men and their families at Point
Breeze Park
Citing the Clayton anti trust act
as stating that labor is not commod-
ity and forbidding issuance of an in
junction in any dispute between two
parties concerning wages and working
conditions unless irreparable injury is
being done to one, Mr.. Gompers thun-
dered his denunciation of Attorney
General Daugherty.
High Finance" Attacked.
"Men wonder at the inpatience, nn-
rest and resentment in these times"
he said. ALI these combinations of
high finance and big business are MAX
Ling more .radicalisn7- it is a
manufacturing plant of eradicalism in
this country.
A contempt fer Federal warnings re-
garding the character of speeches to
international president of the Glass
blowers Union, who introduced Mr.
Gonpers.
No doubt you have all noted that
the labor leaders have been warned
that If they are not careful the COLLINS
will get them MIR. Voll said eve
are going to say what we want and
what is necessary, whether the goblins
get us or not.''
Mr.. Gompers, developing this theme,
said:
That's the way to frighten children.
] wonder who's going to do the
frightening? Perhaps it is William j.
Burns, head Of the Secret Service, the
ney General Wickersham, and in re-
port to President Taft described as
having falsifed records, bribed iuries
and secured the conviction Of an inno-
cent man"
Turning his attack on the injunction,
amidst the cheers Of his hearers, the
veteran leader shouted:
Il hold that The issuance of this in
junction is q confession that the rail-
road shopmen have nearly won their
strike. If the railroad managements
had not lost it | doubt if Attorney
General Daugherty would ever have
gotten it,
Reads Warning to Congress
"Ihat Injunction doesn't sit we'll on
the minds of the men in Congress who
refused to pass such legislation.
Owe have been told we must not pay
out money. ] appeal to you to furnish
money to find support for the men and
a.
traotism and humanity demand it. The
men must fight and take care of them
selves, but the women and children
need your aid.
"a plan was offered by the President
of the United States--or prepared for
hin,-to settle this railroad strike. The
shopmen accepted it. and it was sup
posed the big stick would be used to
enforce it on the carriers, but the big
stick turned out to be toothpick
against the carriers, and instead we
find the President has used it on the
shopmen who accepted his plan.
Tide of Industry Turning
"When the tide of industry has
turned to the full look out for sac
smoke of advancing American labor.''
MIR. Gosnpers concentrated his bitter
ness in satirical denunciation of the
President and the Republican party.
Whence comes this injunction ?n he
demanded. "We find that Attorney
General Dapgherty appeared before the
Bar Association and advocated com
puisory. investigation and compulsory
labor dHring the investigation. The
President of the United States as a
Senator voted for compulsory labor
when he advocated making the Esch-
Cummins act compulsory He also ad-
vocated compulsory labor in his first
message to Congress.
And this from the great political
party OF Lincoln-the party that
aboiished slavery for the negro and
now tries to force compulsory labor on
States.
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