The Republican journal., 1922-11-02
THE INJUNCTION

There has been much criticism OF At
torney General Daugherty for invoking
an Injunction against certain persons ana
organized bodies and against the Court
which granted temporary iniunctlons for
Kidding certain acts. This criticism has
come from Mr.. Gompers, the head OF the
American Federation of Labor, who, IN
session with his executive council, pass
ed the following resolution
"The only possible and practical RENE
DIV in the face of power so usurped and so
completely uniustified, lies in flat refu-
sal on the part Of labor to recognize or
.b;de bv the terms of the Injunction"
Edward F. Grady, legislative agent of
the A. F. l., in addressing a big labor
meeting in Baltimore said: "Organlzed
labor should hold the Supreme Court OF
the limited States in the utmost con
tempt"
when such statements as the above
were uttered by recognized leaders
of unionized labor, to the everlasting
said that it gave no general shout OIL
annroval. In the main it was only the /
W W. the radicals and the anarchists
who applauded. From these people came
hot and militant ropaganda in an effort
to convince the uninformed that the IN
junction if sustained would place every
bodv under despotism as absolute" as
ever existed on the face OF the earth'
To show the nature of this propaganda
we quote from '.The New Malorlty'
naner which. according to its own state
mert. carried at the head of its editorial
column. is ssowned and controlled by the
Chicago Federation of Labor" There
is only one thing to do and that is to de-
clare war to a finish on the Supreme
Court"
Tba nurpose of these people in declar-
inc war to the finish on the Supreme
court is seen in the following which ap-
cared in the same paper:-"The fact re-
mains that we will get nothing until the
workers have coutrol of the Senate, the
House of Representatives, the White
House and the Supreme Court. Even
then we will have won but little unless
the workers placed in control OF these IN
.titutions proceed to obtain Tor the WORK
ers control also of all industry" ms
vould be Socialism from which it is but
. step into Russian bolshevism. These
are the people who are making all the
hue and ely against injunction.
Iniunctions are not new. They ante
date the common law and the old Roman
law by centuries. One can readily trace
them back to Sinai and even to Adam.
Some of these old-time iniunctions, were,
in effect. DEGREES from which there was
no appeal.
Rnt an Injunction from the court, In
tbe United States is, today, the most
charitable and the most humane pro-
.e.d;po known to law This Injunction.
vb;ch is now under incendiary criticism
hv radicals of high and low degree, is but
a kindly admonition against any attempt
to carry out the purposes which the en-
ioineo admittedly have, and against the
consummation of the acts which they
say they intend to commit II they
heed this admonition the injunction VIII
in no way harm them. Its whole intent
IA to deter them from violating either the
civil or the criminal law, and to protect
the rights of the government and OF all
the people.
Injunction proceedings are authorized
by law under the so-called Sherman Ac'
which in Section declares:
Every contract, combination IN the
form OF trust or otherwise, or conspiracy,
n restraint of trade or commerce among
the several states, or with foreign ma
tons, is hereby declared to be ILLEGAL
Every person who shall make any sucf
contract or engage in any such compina-
ton or conspiracy shall be deemed guilty
of 4 misdemeanor. and, on convictioL
thereof, shall be punished by iine MOI