The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-09-07
administration spokesman declared,

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administration spokesman declared,
was prepared today to take any furth-
er steps and exercise any of it's powers
necessary to bring about restoration
of normal conditions. Just what direc-
tion such further action Of the gov
eminent if found necessary, might take
has not been revealed, but it was de-
clared the restraining order did not
represent the limit to which the gov
aernment was prepared to go.
& Strike Leaders Defiant.
Meantime labor leaders here, view
( ing the injunction as an Outrageous"
invasion Of the strikers rights, had de-
clared their intention of ignoring the
order so far as it might be construed
as interfering with what they con-
ceived to be legitimate efforts of the
striking organizations and their friends
to win the strike. W. H. Johnston, re-
presenting, as president of the Inter
national Association of Machinists, one
of the largest groups of the rail strik-
ers declared the injunction would not
cause the slightest abatement of eff
forts to win the strike while Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, asserted it was
the federation's view that injunctions
which invaded constitutional rights"
should be treated as scraps of paper"
Gompers Sees No Let Up.
Mr.. Gompers declared that the Amer
can Federation of Labor would con-
tinue to raise funds and supplies in aid
of railroad strikers, regardless of the
injunction, which he assailed as a
most outrageous thing = process
of the manufacture of radicalism and
bolshevism in this country. The in
junction, he added, might "stir up a
hornets nest" instead of puttiwg a
check to existing unsettlement.
The governments injunction suit
was still the dominant subject Of in
formal discussion among officials and
members of the senate and house to-
day, to great majority Of whom the
action came as complete surprise.
It's discussion at recent cabinet meet
ing is said to have developed decided
divergence of opinion as to it's advis-
ability, with the president, it is under
stood in some quarters, at first taking
the position with those who opposed
to it, for time at least but later
changing his opinion with subsequent
developments in the situation, includ-
ing the apparent breakdown of strike
settlement efforts and increased in
stances of violence.
Hints at Other Strikes.
Though the American Federation of
Labor has no power to call strikes, &C
cording to its president, Samuel Com
pers, it's executive council next Satur-
day will be asked to review appeals
and demands from hundreds of local
unions" for the institution of gem
eral strike to support>the fight of rail-
road unions now on strike.
! "These lappeals have come to me
from all over the country, from those
who imagine that have power, or that
Che federation has power to call gem
eral strike" Mr.. Gompers said. "They
have been in the form of resolutions
passed by trade union councils or by
local unions, or editorials in labor per-
iodicals.
The executive council will be asked
to consider them, although it cannot
take action to call strike.
The resolutions and demands, Mr..
Gompers declared, indicated state
of mine in labor circles more inflamed
than ever before and he considered
them important to that extent. 1t was
said that most of them came to fed
Grafton headquarters before the feder-
al court restraining order was issued
yesterday in Chicago.