The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1923-03-02
SHOWS CLASS CHARACTER

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The class character of the labor
injunction was illustrated by Judge
McClintic in the federal district court
at Charleston, w. Va, when he re-
fused to enjoin Sheriff Don Chafin, of
Logan county, from interfering with
the organizing of miners in that coun-
ty. The court dismissed the miners
plea on the ground that he lacked
jurisdiction.
Judge McClintic recently issued an
injunction against striking miners
who were living in a tent colony in
Mingo county on land leased by them.
He ordered the miners to abandon
the colony, and he would deprive the
miners and their families of this poor
shelter from wintry blasts but for the
federal court of appeals.
In refusing to enjoin Sheriff Cha
fin and his Logan county gunmen,
Judge McClintic let it be understood
that labor is subject to the injunc-
tion process only when the employers
would exploit it.
On the claim that union miners are
denied rights under the fourteenth
amendment, Judge McClintic said the
state of West Virginia has passed no
law abridging the privileges of any
citizen, and that he is without juris-
diction to pass on the individual in
vasion of the individual rights" of
citizens.
Of course, Judge McClintic did not
take this position when he attempted
to break the miners Mingo strike by
ordering these workers to abandon
tent colony which they were living
in and which was maintained on land
leased by them.
In that case the miners were re-
fusing to labor for anti-union mine
owners. This, according to corpora
tion lawyers who have been elevated
to the federal judiciary, is subject to
the injunction process because, they
insist, the right to do business car
ries with it the inherent right to have
free access to free flow of labor
and any interference with that free
flow of labor is a conspiracy" and
can be enjoined.
This position is camoufaged with
much Sound and fury" about "jus-
tice" and rights" and 'independ.
ence," but behind it all is the feudal
belief that exploiters have an inner
ent claim to labor in an amount suf.
ficient for their needs.
Judge McClintic's refusal of the
miners claim has emphasized the
point on which the labor injunction
rests, and which is so cleverly con
cealed by judges, lawyers, corpora
ton agents and other defenders OF
the modern use of the injunction writ
No injunction Judge ever brought
out so clearly the viciousness of the
injunction process.
1t is proven that Chain and his
gun men are violating the law and
have erected super government in
Logan county. Where is the injunc-
tion that is supposed to give quick
action in upholding the law? The in
junction is not used in this case, be-
cause that is not the purpose of the
injunction
The injunction is not intended for
use by anyone but exploiters of labor
It's purpose is to drive men and wo-
men out of their temporary and rude
homes into the fields and roads, so
the fathers will return, hat in hand,
to mine owners who would deny them
every fundamental right.
No other nation in the world boasts
of having in its judicial procedure
such one-sided, infamous proceed
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