The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-04-22

declaring that the refusal of members
of a union to handle or work on ma
terial made by nonunion labor is an
illegal restraint of interstate trade
and violation Of the Sherman anti
trust law. Justices Brandeis and
Holmes dissented. The former in his
opinion said: 'If, on the undisputed
facts in this case, refusal to work can
be enjoined, congress created, by the
Sherman law and the Clayton act, an
instrument Of imposing restraints on
labor which reminds us Of involun-
tary servitude."
CACCO and Vanzetti were sentenced
- to death in the electric chair by
Judge Webster Thayer in Dedham,
Mass, and protests and appeals are
coming in from all over this country
and from many foreign lands. 1t is
assumed that Governor Fuller of Mas
sachusetts will review the case care
fully and it is not unlikely that he
will at least commute the sentence
The feeling is widespread that the
defendants were entitled to re-trial.
When called up for sentence they
made really eloquent appeals, assert
ing their innocence and bitterly at
lacking Judge Thayer for prejudice
against them during the trial. Among
those who have protested against the
execution of the two radicals are
British members Of parliament, emf
nent French authors and American
educators, as well as labor organiza-
lions almost everywhere.
DY ORDER of the directors of the
ID Chicago board of trade, the Ar
mour Grain company, the largest
grain-trading concern in the world,
was suspended from the board for
dishonest acts. The drastic order by
the directors of the grain exchange
was taken, after two years Of investi-
CATION into the organization and the
wrecking of the Grain Marketing
company, a venture which, if it had
been successful, might, it is said
have put the -Armours and the Rosen-
baums in control Of the grain mar
kets of the world.
The suspension of the company was
recommended by a special committee
of grain brokers which reported that
the testimony 1t had taken clearly
showed wrongful acts for which it
I1o Avn
responsible. The acts alleged against
the Armour Grain company were that
in 1924 it had doctored it's books so
that in conveying its property and its
grain into the Grain Marketing COM
pany, it showed greater quantities
than actually delivered, and showed
that good grain was in the elevators
whereas in reality the Armour Grain
company had on hand several million
bushels OF spoiled grain that was list
ed as of good quality.
NAVAL disarmament, If and when
IN obtained, is seemingly up to the
conference proposed by President
Coolidge and scheduled for next June
in Geneva. The League of Nations
preparatory commission that has been
struggling in the Swiss city to get
ready an agenda, has failed to reach
any agreement. the viewpoint OF the
French and the British being admit
tedly irreconcilable. The commission
will merely report the points on which
the delegates were able to agree, and
these are not enough to be of any
avail. The French sought limitation
on a basis of total tonnage, while
Britain, with the support of the
United States, sought limitation by
classes of ships, which was the basis
for limitation agreed upon at the
Washington arms conference. The
French proposal was that limitation
should be by tonnage, but that one
years notice would have to be given
before any nation shifted tonnage
from one class to another. Italy had
q plan that was similar to that of the
French but even less strict.
Before the commission adjourned
Hugh Gibson, American delegate,
served notice that the United States
refused to accept any treaty for in
ternational or league control, not only
because the United States is not
member of the League of Nations, but
because it believes the efficacy and
value of treaties depends entirely up
on the sincerity of the signatories.
He stated, however, that IF the
other states, members of the league,
are able to reach an agreement among
themselves on measures for the utili-
cation of the leagues machinery, and
believe they will be efficacious, Amer
lea would not stand in the way of
their adopting measures deemed de-