Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-03-19

Thus passes another sworn enemy
II organized labor. Hooper got away
with practically everything except
murder as chairman Of the Railroad
Labor Board. ana It is not unlikely
that deaths Of railroad men during
the Shopmeu's strike and since fol-
lowed as direct result oi some Of
lloopef's rulings outside af the Law a.
laid down in the Transportation Aet
or 1920
hloadshed laid al heopcr's poar.
The hloedshed which followed the
issuance of the notorious and illegal
orders OF Hooper and the equally no
totinus Injunction issued by Federal
Judge James h. Milkefson, at the be
nest Of Attorney General Harry NJ
naughetty, can be laid at the door nf
Hooper, who he'd the American people
10 believe that Congress had invested
the Railroad Labor Beard with nianda
tory powers. Hooper sei3ed power
Whr hthe law did not give him. aud
he denounced the strikers as belug
in rebellion against the Government
because they refused teoeey his uns
lawful orders
naugherty aud wilketson used ,he
Department OF Justice TO back Hooper
up IN his rape of the Constitution and
the laws O fthc land Daugherty isI
down and cut and Hooper has followed
him into political oblivion. Only
Nilkerson remains in autocfatle sway
He has "A life appointment as Fed-
eral district judge, bot Federal iudgos
have been impeached,
Hooper Member of Public Group"
Hooper came to Chicago az a lamo
duck appointee To become one of the
three members of the so-eallod pub
tic group" on the Railroad Labor
Board, He had been Governor of Ten
nCssee and before that country law
ycf without any great reputation ~
his chosen profession lie had to be
taken care of by his political friends.
so they wished him of onto the rail-
road executives and railroad workers.
Hooper knew nothing about railroad
matters. but he Immediately assumed
al lsorts of illegal authority To tell
the railroad workers where to head In,
Forgetting altogether that he was
supposed 10 represent that mythical
quantity which the union busters so
unctuously refer TO as the public"
when mn industria lcontroversy Is on,
Hooper played the game of the rail
road owners from the jump. lie even
went to the length of appearing be-
fore meetings of the Manafactuers'
Association. Chamber of Commerce
and various other organizations whore
he denounced organized labor In un*
measured terms.
Makes Attack ON New Bll.
Hoopor's last public ptonouncement
vas TRADE against the bill TO abolish
his Job and which has the joint back
ing Of the railroad workers and rail-
road executives. II has been current
gossip here for many months that
Hooper H. to be taken care Of by the
railroad managers, which ought 10
10 a long way toward soothing his
anguished feelings over losing his
finely upholstered $4,000 year job
with Uncle Sam. lie managed the
expenditure Of about S2,000,0O0 as
head Of the Railroad Labor Board,
without any substantial gain 10 the
Even his aelf-ehosen
masterE--thc railroad executiYea--
finally had to agree TO throw him
There Ia a big story back Of why
the railroad executives were so eager
To agree with the railroad workers on
a bill 10 abolish the Railroad Labor
Board. The executives were anxious
to avoid the spread of strikes that
have been hard fought on -four South