Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-09-15
SENATOR CALLS TEMPORARY INJUNCTION
VIOLATION OF CONSTITUTION OF U. S
Robinson Denounces Daugherty for Avoiding Limitations
on Courts Power in Effort TO Smash Shopmens Strike.

and efficiency completely TO perform
normal repair services.
Every bad-order locomotive and
car operated In the passenger husis
ness menaces the safety OF passens
gers and of the operatives, Every
IlocomQtiyf and freight car operated
| In bad condition III the carriage oi
freight endangers property and the
lives of the freight-train operatives.
Roads Break Laws hut Go
Unpunished.
To safeguard life and property the
Congress enacted the safety appli.
ance laws and the locomotive and
boiler inspection acts. Everyone
knows that the railroads are daily
using cars and locomotives in bad
order in disregard of these laws.
| Everyone knows that lives are being
lost and property is being destroyed
because of the condition Of the rail-
way equipment. The Attorney Gen
eral has made no effort, 80 far as
public information goes, 10 enforce
these laws, but their violation has
been aequieseed in through sympathy
with the effort to break the shop.
mems strike.
Why has no effort been made TO
enforce safety appliances and inspec-
! ton laws2 The answer, Of course, Is
/ that their rigid enforcement would
make more effective the shopmen's s
strike and increase the difficulties en-
countered by the railroads in break
/ ing and defeating the strike.
! No other explanation exists for the
/ failure 10 enforce these laws.
! Thus the shopmen, who had accept
ed the Presidents first proposal, are
! treated BY the Government as out
/ laws, and the railway executives, who
declined the Presidents proposal and
made the Presidents efforts TO settle
the strike unsuccessful, are relieved
Of responsibility in the further con-
+ duct of the controversy. To say the
/ least, the President and the Attorney
General have placed between the
railway managers and executives and
+ the strikers the power OF the Govern
ment an army Of United States mar
shals and deputy marshals, and hold
/ in the background in readiness to
move the military and naval forces
/ Of the Government--all this IN the
name Of law and order and for the
administration of justice and impair
tiality.
However, since the 18th Of August
last this injunction has been issued
and men, known and unknown, labor
ers named and nameless, some organ
| izations specified and other Organiza-
/ tions not named, have been enjoined
according 10 the terms Of this writ
| from the exercise of what any
lawyer must admit are their legal
rights, as well as from the exercise
Of unlawful acts and yet the Depart
ment Of Justice has not moved, 80 fan
as the record shows, to apply 10 the
railroad executives the rule that they
must observe the Labor Boards de-
cision, while all the power Of the
Government is in practical effect be
ing employed and eXerted 10 compel
the workers TO do what the execa-
tiyes are implicitly excused from
doing. The sober final judgment Of
the lawyers of the United States and
Of the people of this country viii con
denim the extent TO which the Chi
cago Federal court has abused is
power and authority at the instance
of the Attorney General, as oppres-
sive ana as inconsistent with the pdn.
eipless Of liberty az expressed in the
Constitution.