Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-23

With this we shall deal under a sep
arate heading, for we are now con
sidering the equity courts invasion
of constitutional rights.
The record of these invasions in
clude so many cases and such lengthy
restraining orders and court opinion
that they number volumes.
In a federal injunction issued II
favor of the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company in 1898, the trainmer
were restrained.
From combining, or conspirlng to
gether, or with others with thu
design, or purpose of causing a strik,
and from ordering, recommend
ing, or approving, or advising Others
TO quit the service of the receivers
of the Northern Pacific road OF
January /, 1894, or at any othei
time"
A similar injunction was issued il
1894 by Federal Judge Dundy In
which railway trainmen were in.
structed to
Refrain and desist from ever com
bining, federating, or conspiring to-
gether with others, > with the
design, or for the purpose of induc-
ing, or causing strike by any of the
employees of said receivers"
In addition to issuing injunctions
prohibiting workmen from going on
strike, equity courts have enjoined
workmen from continuing on strike.
In the injunction granted to the
Thomas G. Plant Shoe Company,
Boston, the members of the United
Shoe Workers Union of America,
and those who might thereafter be-
come members of the union, and their
agents, servants and attorneys were
perpetually restrained.
"From siding with, or in any way
encouraging, or supporting the strike
described In this bill of complaint or
any further strike called for any of
the purposes alleged in the bill; and
from paying strike benefits to any of
the former employees of the plaintiff
now on strike"
Strikers also have been prohibited
from making any public reference to
a strike, or to the fact that a dis
pute exists, or had existed between
themselves and their employer.
In a permanent injunction granted
in 1920 by Judge Harvey A. Axe,
Stark County, 0hio,- the striking
molders were ordered to refrain
"From publishing, advertising, or
any statement, or declara-
ton that there is strike on, or
pending at the plant of the plaintiff
company, or that there is trade dis
pute between the nlaintiff company
and the defendant"
aF Fro
speech is found In an injunction
issued in Minneapolis, MIMI, 1902,
to the Wonderland Theatre. Mem
bers of the Trades and Labor Assem-
bly, of Minneapolis were restrained
"From carrying, or in any manner,
or in any wise, exhibiting any banner,
sign, reading, printing, dodger, card,
or notice of any character having up-
on the same any statement that
plaintiff is unfair to said defendant.
From conveying, directly or in
directly, by means of any act,
or statement, or printing of any
kind, in the Minneapolis Labor Re
view, or any other publication of said
defendant, any statement of the
facts, or from which such fact could
be reasonably inferred, that the plain
tiff and his said theatre, > was,
or is unfair to organized labor"
The right to organize, or attempt
to organize has also been restrained.
In the injunction granted by Fed
eral Judge Anderson to the Border
land Coal Company in 1921, men,
bers of the United Mine Workers
were restrained
From advising, assisting, encour-
aging, acting, abetting ,or in any way
or manner, and by any and all means
whatsoever to the unionization
or the attempted unionization Of the
non-union mines in Mingo County
w. Va, and Pike County, KY"
In the injunction granted by United
States Circuit Court, West Virginia
in 1907 to the Hitchman Coal Com
pany, the union miners are restrained
From interfering and combining
conspiring, or attempting to interfere
with employees of plaintiff for the pur.
pose of unionizing plaintiffs mine
without plaintiffs consent"
Through an injunction granted by
Judge Anderson, United States Cir
cult Court, Indiana, in 1906, strikers
at the Pope Motor Car Company were
restrained
From picketing at, or neal
the premises from compelling
inducing, or soliciting the employees
or any of them, of the said complain
nat, to leave its service, or to refus,
to work for it. $50 From attempt
ing by bribery, payment, or promises
of money, offering of transportation
or other reward, to induce the EN-
ployes of said complainant to leave it
service"
In the federal injunction issued oil
request of the Armstrong Cork Com
pany, the Building Trades Council O
st. Louis, No.. and others were re
strained
"From boycotting, or making effec
tual, or in any way proclaiminl
boycott or from sending, con
veying, or delivering in any way o
any person, firm, corporation ,or asso
citation, any notice of boycott, wheth
er verbal or written"
These are but typical of labor in
| functions without number, gaun
spectres before the immortal signer
of the Declaration of Idependenc
and stalking jailors of the libertie
of the living.
Thus many equity courts in add
ton to placing property rights abov
human rights, have never hesitate
| to rob wage earners of their consti
tutionally guaranteed rights at
time when they were engaged in eco
nomic controversy with their EN-
ployer, and have judicially given tn
employer by usurpatious power tn
advantage to the employer over tn
employee. Civil law can only be sus
pended in times of instruction an
rebellion. Then the state is turne
over to the militia. But the courts @
equity have nnnn SLIGHTEST excuse h