The Connecticut labor news., 1922-07-28
Workers M us t Not Waste Energy or Money in Long Court Fights, Jewell IAd- vises, Adding Courts Cannot rev>e t Peaceful Picketing.

Chicago, July 28.-The energy and money of the six shop craft organiza- tions will not be wasted fighting court injunctions, which are now blanketing the whole country. The strikers will stand on their constitutional and legal rights, asking no special favors and insisting that the law be complied with by all alike. After receiving ad- wise from their attorneys in the prem ises, the Railway Employees Depart ment mailed to the several local and system federation strike committees letter under the heading of "In- structions Concerning Injunctions.
 President Jewell also issued state ment denouncing the methods pur- sued by railroad management to put the strikers in the light of lawbreak- CTS before the public, saying that in some instances the strikers are act ing as guards of railroad property where no gunmen have been em-
 The letter of instructions reads as follows:
 Cannot Stop Picketing
 q. Every effort should be made to prevent disorderly acts, which are used as the basis for obtaining in functions.
 "2. Neither the funds nor energies of the organizations should be spent in law suits.
 Peaceful striking and peaceful picketing can not be legally enjoined, neither in state courts or in federal courts.
 "The act of Congress known as the Clayton act expressly provides as fol- lows:
 And no such restraining order or injunction shall prohibit any person or persons, whether singly or in con cert, from terminating any relation of ,or from teasing to per form any work or labor, or from advising, or persuad- ing others by peaceful means so to do; or from attending at any place where any such person or persons may lawfully be, for the purpose of peacefully obtaining or communicat- ing information, or from peacefully persuading any person to work or to abstain from working; or from ceas- ing to patronize or to employ any party to such dispute, or from recom- advising or persuading oth- CTS by peaceful and lawful means so to do; or from paying or giving to, or withholding from, any person en- gagged in such dispute, any strike benefits or other moneys or things of value; or from peaceably assembling in lawful manner, and for lawful or from doing any act or thing which might lawfully be done in the absence of such dispute by any party thereto; nor shall any of the acts specified in this paragraph be considered or held to be violations of any law of the United States
 Injunctions Are Tricky Tricky blanket injunctions are be- ing obtained by the courts using such language as the following:
 "1t is ordered that you be restrain ed from engaging in the practice commonly known as picketing, that is to say, from assembling numbers of men in sympathy with the said strike and accosting employees, and by threats or personal injury or intimi- 1 1ation, or force, or violence, attempt l! ng to persuade said employees from upon or continuing work
 You will note that, although such l an injunction on first reading seems | 10 prohibit picketing, in fact it only | prohibits picketing which involves the i 1Se ot violent, unlawful methods.
 "The organized railway employees nave the right everywhere to do those acts specified in the law passed by Congress, heretofore huoted
 They should avoid being drawn in o court proceedings intended to waste the money and time of their representatives. They should pre- serve discipline and orderly conduct I order, either by their fellow-workers, or by railroad agents seeking to ere ate riotous conditions They should insist firmly upon the rights of peace ul striking and peaceful picketing, established in the decisions of the ;ourts and statutes of the states and ,f the United States.
 In the statement issued by Presi- lent Jewell having reference to the injunction and armed guard-troops method inaugurated by the railroads