The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-22
REPEAL OF TRUST LAW IS SOUGHT BY
 ORGANIZED LABOR
Would Curb Authority of the Courts by Giving Congress PoWer-ChiId Labor
 Amendment Sought
By Associated Prsss

Cincinnati, June 21.-Organized labor virtually committed itself to- day at the American Federation of Labor convention to program favor ing adoption of four constitutional amendments, the repeal of the Sher- man antitrust law and the enact ment by Congress of two other meas ures for the avowed purpose of curb ing the courts on account of decisions adverse to labor.
 A final vote. however. was de- layed until tomorrow so that dele gates might continue to unlash their feelings against what was de- scribed by the special policy com mlttee representing the program as judicial ollgarchy that is,threat- ening to set itself up above the legislatures and above the people themselves"
 The program Of amendments in- elude a congressional veto of su- preme court decisions. the guarantee to workers of the right to organize. to bargain collectively and to strike. the prohibition Of child labor. and the adoption of an easi.- ,ethod than inc present for changing the federal constitution. The new laws proposed would interpret sections of the Clayton act, which the commit tee said the supreme court had 'manlfestly ignored or overridden" and a new child labor law that would meet objections raised by the su- preme court in setting aside former enactments.
 Delegates advocating the program were greeted with noisy demonstra- tlons, and no dissent from the com mittee's program was voiced during debate. Emphasis was placed by the speakers on their statement that the program was an appeal to the people. and that it was an orderly process in defense Of labor's rights.
 Bitter denunciations of supreme court decisions however, featured the debate, and also tho committees report on the program.
 Probe Harvard Rumor
 The convention adopted a resoiu- ton favoring an investigation Of Harvard's alleged discriminatory action which Is said to be contena 1 plated" to place a ban against ad- mission of Hebrew students and the approval of a report made by the education committee. which con- demned the Lusk laws of New York as attempting to censor the utter anoes of school teachers
 In reporting its program for curb ing the courts, the special policy i committee declared that tho supreme court In particular had ''undertaken to deprive American labor of funda- mental rights And liberties" and 1t asserted that series of such decis- ions formed "a link in chain con- sciously designed to enslave the workers of America" six decisions of the court in the last five years were reviewed to support the con tention of the committee, which added that the desperate desire of a usurped power by nine men. or a bare majority of tlem, over the lives and liberties of millions of mon. women and children, Is intolerable.'
 Further, the report quoted Thomas i Jefferson as saying The germ of dissolution In our federal govern ment is in the judiciary" and also Abraham Llncoln's statement that The people are the masters of both | Congress and the courts" and pre- sented labor's new program with this declaration:
 We are determined to preserve our rights as workers. citizens and free men. and we cell upon all fair minded and liberty-1oving citizens to unite with us in determined effort to deprive the courts of the despotic powers which they have assumed"
 Liable for Damages
 Debate of the report centereo largely o the supreme courts de- cision in the Corona coal case. which held that labor unions are liable .or damages under lthe Sherman anti trust law.
 John P. Frey of the moulders' union, supporting the program for i eurbing the courts. declared that Judges do not make the law" and i he added that union men would bs Justified in asking the impeachment of Federal Judges Anderson of Indi- an and McClintic of West yirginia, on account of the many injunctions they have issued against labor or ganizations.
 William Clarke, president of the glass workers union. asserted that l Chief Justice Taft Df tn sup eme court. had said "a poor man should | have as good chance in litigation as the richH but he argued that the