The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-09-02
IS DENOUNCED AS
AN "OUTRAGEOUS' INVASION OF
STRIKERS RIGHTS BY LEADERS
Gompers Says Invasion of Con-
stitutiOnal Rights Should Be
Treated as Scraps of Paper

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-Accepted in
official circles as a deliberate manifesto
tion Of the administrations determination
to use It's every power to restore normal
, transportation facilities, the injunction
issued today by Federal District Judge
in Chicago was denounced by labor lead
ers as an Outrageous" incasion of
strikers rights which should not be per-
mitted to lntefere with the efforts OF
them and their friends to win the shop
mems strike.
The restraining order did not represent
the limit to which the government was
prepared to go should it find that ''other
steps are necessary" administration
spokesmen declared, but they refused to
indicate what avenue would be followed
if supplementary action was taken.
Won't Abate Efforts.
w. H Johnson, who as president of
the International Association OF Machin-
lists, which represents one of the largest
groups of men on strike, declared the re-
straining order would not influence the
strike leaders to abate in the slightest
their efforts to make their fight effec-
tive President Samuel Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor echoed
this assertion, adding that the fedora
TONS view would be as stated in the
past; that injunctons which invaded
constitutional rights should be treated
as scraps of paper
Both at the white house and the de-
partment of justice direct comment was
withheld, officials insisting that the gov
ernment's brief spoke for ITSELF
The secret of Attorney General Daugh-
ertys visit to Chicago had been so well
kept that some members of the adr7iI is
tration as we'll as of the senate and 1ouos
were taken by surprise by the films If
the suit and the Issuance of the court '
temporary order which followed quickly
Chairman Cummlns OF the senate inter
state commerce committee, who has cain
tanned close touch with the industrial sit
uation since it's inception, however, said
he had been consulted in regard to the
move. He expressed his approval. adding
that his attitude would be the same to-
ward ANY move that viii help keep the
railroads in operation"
Dis0i ssed at Cabinet Meet
Discussion of the proposed suit occu-
pied a recel meeting of the cabinet, It
was sid and developed a decided differ
ence on opinion as to its advisability be-
tween certain of President Harding's ad
visers. In some circles President Har-
ding was understood to have, for time
at least, aligned himself among those op-
posed to seeking court action In the
emergency which he was said to conceive
as the direct responsibility of the execu-
tive department.
Later, however. when the apparent COL
lapse of efforts to settle the strike had
been followed by Instances II violence
on many railroads Mr.. Harding was said
to have approved the attorney generals
that such legal action
should be added to other efforts of the
government to prevent such outbreaks.
The injunction petition was held by
the department of justice to be we'll pre-
cedented in the famous Debs case in 1895
which subsequently was sustained by
decision of the United States supreme
court.