Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-06-16

labor DY selling the NofknldH ldDOf
power to someone else.
He would have the right of holding
the wage eafnePs services and re-
tanning them indefinitely to the ex-
elusion of the right of any other in
dividual in the world. He would have
the power of transmitting this owner
ship or property right TO his success
sors, or Of giving it as an inheritance
to his heirs.
The definitions submitted make it
clear that property is either "a pro-
duet Of nature, or the results ac-
cOmplished BY labor, and that under
no stretch of the imagination can the
wage Garner or his services be con-
strued as property.
Labor and the capacity to labor
is inseparable from life. 1t grows
or diminishes with health or sick
ness; il ceases with death. The
power and capacity of the wage
Garner to labor cannot be the prop
erty of another unless the employer
has property right in the wage
Garner an ownership of the
laborer's body which should be slay-
cry.
ness concern could sell some of its
customers to another business con-
Germ and the customers would be
compelled to deal exclusively with
the firm to whom their patronage had
been sold.
What is business
"That which occupies the time, at
tention and labor of men for the
purpose of livelihood or profit; that
which occupies the time, attention
and labor of men for the purpose Of
profit and Improvement
american & English Encyclopedia
of Law.
"That which bushes, or that which
occupies the time, attention or labor
of one, as his principal concern,
whether for a longer or shorter time
(Webster's Dictionary.
What is labor?
physical or mental effort particu-
larly for some useful or desired end.
Exertion of the powers for some end
other than recreation or sport"
Century Dictionary.
physical. or mental eXertion, par
ticularly for some useful or desired
end; toll, work. That which requires
exertion or effort; task"
(Standard Dictionary.
From these definitions it is evident
that there Is basic difference be-
TWEEN what constitutes property and
constitutes business, while there Is
practically no difference between what
constitutes business and constitutes
labor.
If business is property then labor Is
equally so; and if the income, profit
or earning power of business should
be protected through the issuing of
injunctions, then the earning power
of labor should be equally protected,
and the wage Garner granted injunc-
tons against reductions in wages, dis
charge, or any other act of the en-
ployer which would interfere or in
jure his income or his welfare as a
worker.
If business and labor are the same
as property, the Constitution of the
| United States must be rewritten, per-
sonal liberty must be abolished, and
discretionary government by judicial
conscience" established in place Of
government by law.
What has taken place in America
has been a steady invasion by equity
courts of the legislative and admins
trative departments of the govern
ment, equity courts in more than one
instance having issued DEGREES which,
in their substance and effect, were in
tended to supersede the constitution
and create laws by the exercise of the
Judges Conscience" instead of
through the Legislative department of
the government.
Their labored effort to develop the
theory that somehow, in some tech
meal manner not clearly defined,
business and labor were pronerty, is
one of the evidences Of their disre-
gard for human rights.