The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-11
FURTHER STATEMENTS BY LABOR
LEADERS AND PUBLICISTS
ON INJUNCTIONS


NTH babes !" their and prospective mothers to jail
because they fighting to improve their conditions and
eide Themselves ob the necessities Of life commits the most
brutal act of Judge in present civilization.
think that the door of every court there should
De placed the inscriptions AU loOrks ho enter here le0Ue
all hope behind"
In most Of the struggles in soich the injunction Is made
to play its part bet0een the employers the sid oho
fight to protect their uholy profits and the aoorers the
other side forced By circumstances to battle for the necessities
Of life In this struggle the courts step and
of the hands Of the tooker the only oeapon that he H0he
right to fight for his eUistence.
good deal is said about @Ameccnps" and sUhot oon-
stitte It, The 0oer 0ho fights protect himself Jam
y and his class and forced to stand for conditions tOhoA
they the Russian 0orker Of snding for, mig mind
these of manifest kind of spirit ottrio,
ued to foreGhrs oho fought tyranny and injustice
times.
BY William MahOney Editor ST. Paul Labor Advocate.
TIE the Injunction controversies striking
example Of the isapp1c0ton of designedy beneficial laos
What originally intended to prevent repGrGbte injury IS
employed to repCrGbIe injury The present GppcO
ton Of Judicial njunctons labor disputes radical depart
are from the original purpose of this nCndGte
This practice of perUerting laos to other than the purpose
intended shotos important every govern
erpec get protection from distinctly labor laos
The penalty attached oioIGon of antitrust
first and most forcbly Oisited labor organisation the
United Hattes0hen the plain purpose Of directed
at the ev practices Of trusts An Wsypotheic court used
the lao against organised labor
TN 0ie Of this experience the oorrs hGve to look upon
the courts and especially the federal foregone
mics and haze tried to keep from them During the past
twenty-five gears persistent and repeated efforts haze been made
to safeguard abos right by Legislative inhibitions Of
courts Of the injunction, and compel the Differentiation be-
toeen human labor and property but somehow the courts find
Day sconstrue the intent of the legislature right
ahead apply laos adversely to the labor organizations
Today the judicial injunction is the potent sOeGpon of
employing uphold right exploit toorkers
without hndrdnce from union Gctrit In addition enjoy
ina strange regard for the acredness of the courts the latter
an effective ag of making their orders stick The courts
occupy spephee and GIto0ys to the call of
propety interests Then haze assumed the UtcI function of
guardian Of employing interests during their conflicts oh
labor.
TIE injunction amy factor has eroed to make
a+~L 706o-
thereby sroyd the independence mtdncy
The D0ughert Wilkinson injunction in the railroad shop
mems strike is looked upon the fatal bloo to the tooer
side the contest The same thing os true in the historic
A. u strike of 1894 ohen Judge Grocup Debs and his
executive board to jail and broke the strike
The steady extension of court interference In labor disputes
has reached point of Development at hcb system of pre-
scsoeG fegGton mas oeen de0epe0 Just as soon as strike
occurs the first thing the employer does is to out IN
junction forbdding almost every that might In any 0ay
contribute to the success of the struggle.
THE first effect to pdrGLe the activities of the strikers
gre the employer the opportunity to gain time
sebre0ers The repeated experiences Of labor unions in
tM process should forearm them to be prepared
bwnotson proceedings than half oay 1t should
part of the strategy Of the unions to anticipate the
hs most VitcI elements in the success of strike.
Just hGt to do in gerry is difficult to prescribe Some
ses N is even necessary to disregard the orders of the courts
rn Injunction clearly of Uorkers rights
ed there IS appeal from the courts orders HooeUer this
shod be done only in extraordinary The late Pre
ompers Of the American Federation of Labor tcth
cheI dregGded the orders of the court in the Buck
b '0e neoer sent to jail This happy outcome soould
4 1kety in the of a striker
Until labor has judges sympathetic iH interests of
TIE Oores the courts t0U be used By the employers as toeap
of defense and oTense.
j. Davidson Organizer of the Chicago Joint Board of the
international Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
am gladly accepting your inration to gDe you opinion
on the injunction menace to be printed in the special edition
of the Gnttinjunction issue of The DAILY WORKER.
For the labor Chicago the fight against the
injunction er IS fight for the existence of the trade union
Increment In the past eo gears the socad house justice
has, under the famous equity practically every
strike thru the njnctions against organised labor This
suited IN almost instance IN the breaking Of the union
everyone knos that after lost strike the union Weakened
it can hardly eDist
feel that only thru the united struggle Of the oorkers