Norwich bulletin., 1922-09-07
TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST
 oUTsPoKEN LABOR LEADERS

Formal announcement by Attorney Geu-
 eral Daugherty that the government
 would consider in due time what pro
 ceeding shall be taken against the few
 misguided labor leaders who have made i incendiary speeches" in connection with the industrial situation, and persistent
 reports that secret conference are in
 progress looking to some sort of separate settlement with individual roads stood
 out in today's developments in the strike of the railway shop crafts.
 Incidentally, Mir. Daugherty said prep
 aration of the governments case had been
 been "somewhat hampered' by the diff
 culty process servers were experiencing
 in locating leading officials of the shop
 crafts organizations"
 W. H. Johnston, president of t.= ma
 chinists, and B. M. Jewell, official head
 of the seven organizations on strike, have
 recently dropped out of public view. al-
 though labor spokesmen have invariably
 denied the two leaders were avoiding
 the service of the copies of the restraining
 order issued at Chicago last Friday and asserted they would be available if
 wanted for that purpose.
 MT. Daugherty in his statement empha. sized the belief that the rank and file of
 labor organizations were content to leave
 the issue to the orderly processes of law, but said the few leaders who have
 shown a contempt for the courts need not complain that they
 are denied the full privileges of free , speech" Instructions have been sent to the United States attorney at Chicago
 the attorney general said. to notify coun- sel for the unions that leading officials of ! the shopmen's organizations, together ! with their complete records, would be re. 2 quirAd before the court when the case i: E again called.
 !; Both in government and labor circiei ;. today complete ignorance was asserted v of any actual or impending negotiations r looking to the settlement of the strike ' Some officials had been informed, 1t wa v said that the outlook for settlement :. had been frightened by recent develop s ments but even with these details wer
 lacking It was a matter of commo ,s knowledge. however, that several rail = roads still held the views in favor c ,r separate settlements which their repre- os sentatives had expressed at the recen n conference of railway executives in Ne7
 York.
 h. The governments temporary restrain O. ing order came in for it's first public al he tack in the senate today when Senate h. Robinson, democrat, Arkansas assaile the writ on the ground that it constitute IT, a plain violation of the constitution
 Senator Watson republican, Indiana, d, ng tended the governments course. assertin r. that it was the only action possible in tt ge emergency which the country faced. 1y The suggestion that settlement negot ti- ations might have been institute 'e- through third parties was seen in u es statement of machinists officials thu he their organization had not been invited
 any meeting
 en So far as could be learned, no effo u- was instituted to serve labor leaders WI .Se might have been In Washington. Unite ne States Marshal B. c. Snyder said he hs ne received no instructions from the depar ey ment of justice and that he had not bes ay given copies of the Chicago order whiS ',u would be necessary before he could ul eo dertake the task
 Attorney General Daugherty said
 assumed that the strike leaders wou
 welcome the opportunity to appear b IN fore the court His statement follow
 The government will consider in d, IT, time what proceedings shall be talk, b. against the few misguided labor leade ty who have made incendiary speeches wi as the purpose defeating the administrati lie of justic. The rank and file of labor e S." ganizations are loyal and law-abidi sr- citizens, and am satisfied that they " of be content to submit the issues in t to Chicago injunction suit to the order he processes of law and t. abide by the q ret cisions of the courts as to what is f rec la wof the land
 sv- "A few misguided labor leaders-sol ms of them avowed oolshevik+who ha yas shown a contempt for the courts and lk- processes of law need not complain th w they are denied the full privileges in- free speech. It is my intention, if ull shall prove necessary to proceed with i
 equity suit, to give them the fullest ( DOT portunity of free speech and under q ns- cumstances that will give the great, the value to their utterances ; for I pront la- when the court next hears this case II sed the leading defendant shall have the fu yht est opportunity to take the stand a the testify under oath as to whether or I tc they are responsible for instigating a .si- carrying on the questioned conspiracy ,ir- paralyze transportation In this count A, If they are reluctant to tell their side
 the story, I shall be disposed-althou F. the governments evidence will make the necessary--to call the leading defendal tly to the witness stand, and they will Il ay. have. as I said. the fullest opportunity ai- free speech and under the most satisf op- tory conditions.
 md In thus proposing to put before 'n- country, not only the governments ca the but any possible defense, am somewl ;e hampered by the fact that the Eove ent ment process servers have had great | the fculty in locating the leading officials
 the shop crafts organizations. No Ia
 yer has yet formally appeared for tn
 in the Chicago suit, and this is dis. 'Rs pointing as desired to serve notice