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The Washington times., 1923-03-09
TELLS cALlFoRNlANS
or IRRIGATION PLANS

The irrigation project or the
Colorado river was described in an
illustrated lecture delivered last
night by Arthur p. Davis director
OF the United States Reclamation
Service, before the California state
Society in the Thomson school.
How water and power would be
provided for the Palo Verde AND
Imperial Valleys OF California, was
shown by Mr.. Davis.
The following officers were elect
ed: CONGRESSMAN A. NJ. Free, presi-
dent; George B. Hedge. first vice
president; III. H. Chapman. second
vice president: C. Terry du Ren.
secretary and treasurer; c. Z. Vogel,
historian: DR.. A. NJ. Mott, chap
lain, and II. r. Ashon, chairman
of the social committee. Mrs. Ralph
Warnelle, Emmett DAILY. and Miss
Alice Jones sang, and dancing fol-
lowed the meeting.
The Washington times., 1923-03-09
WOUNDED. HE cRAWLs
TWO MILES FOR HELP

SYRACUSE, N. Y, March p
Barely able to move and suffering
from shock and loss Of blood,
Dewey vollmer, State employee Of
North Syracuse, dragged himself
more than. two miles over snow
covered fields after he had been
accidentally shot while hunting.
Vollmer was taken to the Hos
ital Of the Good Shepherd and oper-
ated upon. The bullet enteA d his
right arm and lodged in his shout
der. Doctors said he would live.
The Washington times., 1923-03-09
WILL JOIN MARINE CORPS
WHEN They GUT ACADEMY,

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March g.
Upon their own request, approved
by the superintendent Of the Naval
Academy, the following members of
the graduating class of the academy
win be commissioned as second lieu.
tenants in the marine corps upon
graduation:
Lawrence T. Burke. New Jersey;
John e. Curry, Pennsylvania: Rich.
ard NJ. Cuts, jr., Hawaii; William
w. Davidson. Texas; George F.
Good, jr., Pennsylvania: John T.
The Washington times., 1923-03-09

Harris, Missouri; Donald J. Haw.
thorne, Illinois: Charles w. Kali,
at large: Ira L. Ktmesss Missouri;
Frank III. Lamsonscribner, Ohio;
William c. Lemly. at large; Will
liam @. Manley, Massachusetts,;
Maxwell III. Mizell, Alabama: Ken
meth l.. Moses, New Hampshire;
Robert H. Rhoades, Pennsylvania;
William j. Scheyer, New York; AL
fred w. Schneider, Wisconsin: Fred,
erick C.. Stevens, Massachusetts,;
William B. Trundle, Virginia; Mer.
lrill B. Twining. Oregon; Henry ].
Voss, Ohio: Thomas J. Walker.
South Carolina; Frank D. Weir,
New York; Thomas b. White, I'LL.
nois.. and Hhelton G. FERN, Illinois.
The Washington times., 1923-03-09
RAID ON w. n. ANDERSON'S
GARAGE STARTS A HUM

NEW YORK, March 9.-Report-
ers gasped when lazy Einstein
and Moe" Levy, prohibition agents,
noted for publicity stunts, ans
nounced they had confiscated 200
cases Of cut whiskey in a garage
on East Twentieth street belonging
to civilian II. Anderson
Calm was restored, however,
when 1t was explained that the
Anderson in question was not the
State superintendent of the Anti.
Saloon League Of New York.
The Washington times., 1923-03-09

no cognizance Of suggestions In the
British House of Commons that
the Newcastle incident be submitted
to arbitration, and If such a sug-
gestion is made officially it prob.
ably would be turned down on the
ground that there is nothing to
arbitrate.
The Washington times., 1923-03-09
Seeks to Buy Real Estate.

The, Wabash railroad today asked
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion for authority to issue .$139, $50
Of first lien 5O-year, 4 per cent term
inal gold bonds to enable 1t to pur-
chase certain real estate near st.
Louis and Kansas City to be used
for terminal purposes.
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
Injunction Judges Destroying Popular
 Government

Portland. Ore Oct 155-"I "Injunctions iii labor disputes are the most oppres- sive and repressive legal weapon ever devised and designed to hold in subjec- ton those who must earn their way through life by the sweat of toll and under the domination of master class.
 Such is the vigorous indictment of la bor injunctions and injunction judges which the executive councl of the Amer ican Federation of Labor presents to the representatives of American trade unionism attending the forty-third an nual convention of the Federation in Portland.
 'The modern and extensive use of the writ of injunction, especially as used in labor disputes" declared the Councils lis revolutionary and destructive.
 ''The injunction writ was designed when popular government was unknown and at a time it was difficult to enact such laws as would permit speedy and adequate adjustment of controversies subject to legal determination.
 Thus it is said that equity in law in the application of right and justice to the legal adjustment or~differences when the law by reason of its universality Is different, or that system of jurispru- dence which comprehends every matter of law for which the law provided no remedy
 Thus conceived 1t must be apparent with the development of popular gov ernment and the ready opportunity to provide by legislative enactment for whatever legal deficiency that may pre- sent itself at any time that either the injunction whit has outlived its useful ness or that our legislative system of enaeting laws has failed i'll the func- tions assigned to it.
 Indicative and demonstrative of the mwarrantable use of the injunction writ in labor disputes is the fact that in England, from whence are imported this extra legal devise, the equity power IS, limited to property and then only where there is no remedy at law. In | England the injunction writ IS not per missible in labor disputes.
 While the Constitution confers' equi- ty power upon the courts in the same way that it is made their duty to issue the writ habeas corpus and to insure so limited and defined by English au- thorities that our courts could not ob- tain jurisdiction in labor disputes ex- cept by adopting the legal fiction that labor was a commodity or article of commerce and that business was prop , erty.
 This is exactly what our courts have done and by this legal assumption our courts have vested themselves with the most oppressive and repressive legal weapon ever devised and designed to hold in subiection those who must earn their way through life by the sweat of
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
METAL TRADES OF A. F. OF |. ENDORSE
 BOX PEACE PLAN

The Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor from the Federation convention i'll Portland, Ore gon, has just informed the American Peace Award that the following reso- lution, expressing the workers co-op- eration in the effort to find "prac- ticable plan" acceptable to a majority of the American people, and to the Arneri- can Senate, was unanimously passed: Whereas, The Metal Trades De partrnent of the American Federation of Labor believes that the subject of cur foreign policy should be carefully con- sidered by the American people, and
 Whereas, We believe that the solu which promotes popular understanding cf the ground work of world peace can ben only healthful, and
 Whereas, We believe that the solu ton of the problem of the relation ot the United States to the rest of the world can best be worked out with out partisan bias and without the heat and distortion that IS inevitable if this subject is made an issue i'll political campaign; therefore, be 1t
 Resolved, That the Metal Trades Department of the American Fedora ton of Labor, in convention assembled, heartily enQO1SeS IIle cIIOIl OI lHe AlHS- rican Peace Award to find a practicable plan acceptable to majority of the American people and to the American Senate by which the United States may cooperate with other nations looking toward the peace of the world.
 "The Committee recommends the adoption of this resolution which is drawn with the idea in mind of making known to all the position of this Con vention toward any practical plan that will lead to world neace'
 The officers of the Metal Trades De Dartfnent of the American Federation of Labor are: MT James O'Connell, Pres ident; Mir. A. J. Berres, Secretary Treasurer.
 MT. William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Ma chinists, is a member of the Policy Com mittee, of the American Peace Award
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
GARMENT TRADES GUST COMMUNISTS
 IN NEW YORK CITY
Nineteen Members of Dressmakers
 Executive Board Are Fired . Out of Office

New York, Oct. I3.-The attempt of the adherents of w z Foster and of his Trade Union Educational League to bore from within" the ex- ist1ng unions affiliated with the Amer ican Federation of Labor received a setback this week Nineteen of the 25 members of the executive board of the Dressmakers Union, local 22, were removed from office by the gen eral executive board of the Interna- tional Ladies Garment Workers Union.
 Abraham Baroff, general secretary treasurer of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, declared that the busting of the Io members from the executive board of Local 22, one of the largest locals affiliated with the international union, was the beginning of "clean up' of union members who permitted outsiders to interfere in the conduct of the union.
 The Io were found guilty of hold ing separate caucuses outside union headquarters on matters pertaining to the union, and with permitting to be present a man named Miller, who had been expelled from the union for his Communist activities.
 "A union member may be repub- lican, democrat, socialist or com munist," said MT. Baroff, "but we can not permit union business to be transacted in an outside organization opposed to the international union.
 "The Trade Union Educational League is modelled after the Ku Klux Klan, but in another guise. It's a pity we did not clear up this situa-
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
SLAVERY BY COURT DEGREES
 MUST END

Portland, Ore, Oct. 6.-"The right to free contract, the right to work or not to work, the right to advise or not to advise some one to join with another i'll the doing of such things marks the boundary line between slavery and free dorn'
 The executive council of the A1neri- can Federation of Labor lands the straight from -the-shoulder blow on the Supreme Court of the United States in its report to the annual convention of the Federation in session i'll Portland.
 The statement is made i'll a vigorous criticism of certain portions of the su- prerne courts decision i'll the Kansas court of industrial relations case, in which, according to the council, 'the su- preme court has arrogated to itself the right to declare and prescribe the cir cumstances under which one man under the freedom of employment doctrine may cease employment but may not ad- v1se others to join with him in the ces- satlon of such employment
 Our courts have altogether too much power, power Self-aSsu1ned and self asserted until we have become a judi cIary ruled country" continues the coun- cil
 Tt IS not to be found in any of the documents of our nation but rises out of the strength of the personfel of the court.
 "The stronger always win; hence, the personnel of the supreme court must either be made up of those who intepret democracy as democracy demands, or else the personnel of the other branches of government must be filled with men stronger than the personnel of the Su- pre1ne Court that the several rights and powers of these coordinate branches which have been unbalanced in favor of the supreme court may again balance equally.
 Free labor permits of no exception
 Whether the same be in public or private service, whether the laborer act as an individual or en masse, any in depreciation whether by courts or 1egis- lature that denies labor in the singular or plural Fundamental rights do not rest on grammar-those rights were born long before grammar was invent ed) to work or not work as he or they will IS contravention of the constitu- tional guarantee of freedom of contract, a violation of the very first precept of the fundamental right of free men,"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13

Portland, Ore, Oct. 15.-By persist ent exercise of the usurped power to nullify acts of congress by declaring them unconstitutional the Supreme Court of the United States has largely destroyed government of the people, by the people and for the people.
 The supreme court must be shorn o1 this power, which menaces the very prir- ciple of our domestic institutions.
 The will of the people as expressed in laws enacted by their duly elected representatives in the United States Congress must be the supreme and fun damental law of the land and not sub- ject to the whirns of an irresponsible jul dietary.
 Therefore power must be definitely conferred upon congress to veto supreme court decrees affirming the unconst1tu- tionality ef federal laws.
 This progressive and American posi- ton is taken by the executive council ot the American Federation of Labor III its report to the annual convention of the Federation in session here.
 t'The constitution provides that con gress shall enact laws, but they must be approved by the president, the council declares "If he vetoes them, congress can pass them over his veto by two thirds vote Each house IS check on the other the president is check on both houses, and congress itself IS check on the executive. But ther IS none now on the supreme court.
 "Since the ratification of the consti tuition, by gradual enroachment the Su- preme court has assumed greater power than that exercised by either or both the legislative and executive branches of our government
 It is indisputable that the supreme court has been a most powerful agency in determining our national policies
 Mot only by declaring laws invalid does it exercise veto power and forbid the adoption of certain policies, but by interpreting the law the court has defi- nitely outlined and established general policies"
 As an illustration of this policy form ing power of the supreme court the council points to the Sherman anti trust act. which outlawed all cornbina tions in restraint of trade. The supreme court interpolated the word "unreason- able" and declared that the act restrain ed only those combination that imposed unreasonable" restraint of trade.
 "The decision absolutely nulllted the original act" the council continues. "lr- respective as to the wisdom of the eco homie theory held by the court, there existed a governmental situation under which an all-powerful court was negat- ing the written intent of the law-making body and establishing another version more in accord to its liking and judge ment"
 The council points out that in cons1- dering social and labor legislation the supreme court opposes and nu1lifes not only the judgement of congress and state legislatures but stands against the ex- pressed will of the citizens. This nulli- fication includes such measures as thel child labor law, the minimum wage law
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
LABOR DEFEATS EMPLOYERS ANTI-
 UNION CRUSADE

Portland, Ore, Oct. 15-Organizec labor triu1nphs over its employer antag- onists.
 Labor's solid forces, its indubitable spirit, and its never-yielding forward drive against its enemies has brough
 unparalleled victory to the trade unior workers.
 This is the optimistic and jub1ian spirit that characterizes the report o1 the executive council of the American Federation of Labor to the representa- tives of three million American trade unionists attending the fosty-third annual convention of the Federation in session here.
 "The period covered by the report, the council declares, "has been an event full one i'll the history of organized labor "a period we may well regard as one of record achievements for labor, and consequently for humanity.
 Guided by basic principles whose cor rectness and adequacy can not be sue cessfully questioned, the American trade union movement has successfully re- sisted the employers in their fve-year war to destroy our labor organizations and establish an employer dictatorship based upon the non-union shop. ,
 SuldCd UF ltICoC odllIC OuI labor movement has defeated the anti union employer wage reduction policy so thoroughly that wage increases have become the regular order everywhere, while labor's shorter workday Is becom- ing the policy of even the most notori- ous sections of anti-union long work day industry.
 Organized 1abor's immigration re- striction policy, insisting that un Amer ican employers shall not make use of cheap alien labor to beat down the 1iv- ing standards of American workers, is now the accepted policy of all who love America and her institutions.
 "Labor's policy for the adjustment of labor disputes by voluntary negotiation between representatives of organized workers and employers directly concern ed has become so thoroughly the na- tional policy that the advocates of con- pulsory institutions and compulsory pro- cesses are limited to a fer die-hard em- ployers and employer economists still under the influence of the slave owners and feudal lords conception of indus trial relations.
 During the prolonged period of un- emplo y1nent the policy and thought of the labor movement became more and more the policy and thought of the na- ton. Today, withindustry thriving, the of the labor movement must continue to be the leading force of na- tional progress. This is inevitable For the objective of the labor movement is to make the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness material, moral, and spiritual facts for evety persou."
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13

toll and under the domination of mas ter class
 These injunction writs in labor dis putes have, been issued in even greater and greater numbers and each succeed ing injunction goes further in its re- pressive features than the one before
 Indeed this special form of class le- gislation by judicial decree Is assuming an enormous proportion and the wage earners are compelled to suffer under a set of class laws which apply to no othef group within our government
 Ut is inconceivable that this form of government by injunction can long pre- vail without serious reckoning
 ''As an American people we have es- caped government by the king
 ''We have just emerged from the worlds greates conflict and glory in our achievement that we have rid the world of tl1e most arrogant of all modern au- tocrats. And yet what does 1t gain us if. indeed, we permit the growing up of despotic government by the judges.
 If we are to preserve this govern ment of the people, by the people. and for the people. then any and all usur- pations by the judiciary must be as sternfy resisted as usurpation by any king or other form of executive.
 Pending remedial redress from this usurped power of our courts and their unconstitutional intrusion upon the rights and liberties of our people it is urged that we reaffirm and adhere to former declarations of the American Federation of Labor to maintain our natural and constitutional rights fiber ties unimpaired
 Policies of repression whether prac- ticed bye mployers alone or in combi- naton with our courts must not be per mitted to stife, check or retard the righteous growth and full development of the American trade union movement" {"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13

ton two years ago when the germ was first planted"
 The busted members are. removed from office and are disqualified from holding office for three years They are Bessie Bailin, Yetta Davis, Mary Guterman, Lena Klein, Joseph Weis- berg, David Marocow, Ida Podger, Mollie Warrens, Sonia Chaiken, Sarah Dorner, Mary Kerensky, Rose Kantz, Rose Mirsky, Harry Osofsky, Bella Ratford, Irene Steinberg, Samuel Weiner and Rose Walkowitz The union members were. formally tried. It was charged that they had fur nished information to outsiders and had taken instruction with re- gard to union agairs from persons not in the organization. It was held by the trial officers that the Foster or ganization was dual union and that no members of the garment workers, under the constitution, was permitted to join dual union.
 The members on trial were accused of reaching decisions in outside eau cuses to which they adhered at regu- lar meetings of their executive board thus depriving the six members not in their group of performing the du ties for which they were selected.
 According to Mr. Barof, the ac- .cused members admitted the truth of the charges, but declared that they had right to join the Foster organ ization and refused to promise to re- frain from holding caucus meetings in the future.
 The International Ladies' Garment Workers has 100 local unions and membership of 100000
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
McADOO SAYS RAIL. EXECUTIVES
 HAVE ISSUED FALSE STATEMENTS

Washington, Oct 16-The railroad executives are spending millions of the peoples money to poison public op1nlon on Federal operation of railroads during the war, said former Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo III letter to United States Senator Couzens of Michigan.
 MT. McAdoo points out that Federal operation of railroads in war time and private operation III peace time are two distinct propositions" The railroads 1n- clude the total cost of transportation of all kinds as a charge against Federal op- eration. The railroads fail to point out that this cost includes operatin" coast wise steamships and inland waterways, ywhichhad to be taken over for war pur- poses, including liquidation of all their claims t ;he cost of operating the ex- press companies, and the Pullman com ,pai1ies, which the government had to take over in order to furnish services essential to the war andth liquidation of all claims of every kind and charac- ter arising therefrom.
 Other charges the government had to meet, and which the railroads now es- cape include:
 'The cost of constructing tracks to training camps and the cost of many structures used exclusively for war pur- poses, all of which were valueless for peace time operation and loss to the government.
 "The liquidation of all claims for per sonal injuries and property damages on the railrods not included Ill operating costs.
 "Adjustnent of market value of in- ventorieso materials and supplies on return to private control.
 Claims of the railroads for alleged undermaintenance and for every kind ot false demand which thev have been able to devise and for which they have beer trying to make the government liable.
 All of these elements enter into and fix the total cost of transportation for war purposes" continued MT. McAdoo
 "In order to discredit Federal control the railroad executives have constantly and falsely claimed that the cost of Fe- deral operation was much greater thar the cost of private operation. How is this to eNdetermined? Clearly by ac- counting on precisely the same basis un- der Federal and under private control The method of accounting IS fixed by the rules and regulations of the Inter state Commerce Commission"
 Mr. McAdoo declares that compari- son of the two costs, based on a stand ard system of computation, will show that the cost of railroad transportation to the American people hash cen greater under restored private control than un- der Federal control"
 ''The association of railroad execu- tives has engaged in deliberate and or ganized propaganda of falsihcation for the last thre years about Federal control of the railroads, because it was realized that only by poisoning public opinion could it accomplish the selfish purposes it has had in view
 It would be interesting to know how many millions have been spent by the railroads on false propaganda. Every dollar of this illegitimate expenditure has been paid for by the people through increased freight and passenger rates"
The Connecticut labor news., 1923-10-13
CONGRESS MUST HAVE VETO POWER
 OVER DECISIONS OF SUPREME COURT

for women workers, and the labor pro visions of the Clayton antitrust act, whih were measures necessary to con- serve humanity and designed to meet practical needs
 The supreme court shows a disposition to surrender its usurped power.
 Therefore the executive council urges the adoption of an amendment to the constitution conferring the power to re- enact by a two-thirds vote any federal law which the court declares unconstitu- tional