The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-03-08
new YORK LABOR
RALLIES TO FIGHT
INJUNCTION EVIL
Assemble In Albany On
March the 9Th

INdICEl TIE ON
public joint hearing will be given
before the Senate General Laws Com
mittee and Assembly Judiciary Com
mittee on Tuesday, March s, at 2 p.
m, on the Lipwicz- Haekenburg bill
IS. print 528, A print 303) to regulate
the issuing of injunctions in industrial
disputes. Union representatives COM
ing here for the hearing will assemble
at the Albany Labor Temple at 1880
noon on March for a conference be-
fore going to the hearing at p. M,
which will be held in either the SEN
ate or assembly chamber.
President John Sullivan of this
State Federation and William Collins
of the American Federation of Labor
have addressed largely attended mass
meetings of wage earners in behalf
of the bill to regulate issuing of in
functions in three of the largest coun-
ties of this state. Officers of the
local central labor body presided at
each of these meetings, which at
tracted audiences from all sections Of
the counties, and the local speakers
included Vice-P Presidents A. w. Sher-
man of Syracuse, E. Koveleski Of
Rochester, a~1 G. F. Conroy of Buff
falo. At eac of the meetings reso-
lutions were adopted as follows:
Resolved, that this mass meeting
f wage earners under call of the
New York State Federation of Labor
and the Central Trades and Labor
Council, hereby urges the senators
and members of assembly from this
county to support and vote for the
enactment of the Lipwicz- Hacken-
burg bill herein described; and that
copies of this resolution be forwarded
to those mentioned members Of our
state legislature, signed by the Of
ficers of this mass meeting, as the
unanimous request OF the wage-work-
ing citizens of this county and
vicinity"
The Lipwicz- Hackenburg bill goes
into effect at once if passed and pro-
vides as follows:
No contract, agreement or combina-
ton between two or more persons or
groups Of persons or between employ
ers and employees concerning the
terms or conditions of employment or
the assumption, creation, suspension,
or termination of any relation be-
tween employer and employee or con-
corning any act or thing with refer
ence to or involved in or growing out
of a trade or labor dispute or any
contemplation or furtherance of
trade or labor dispute between en-
ployer and employee whether or not
any Of the parties stand in the proxi-
mate relation to the original relation
of employer and employee, or con
corning any effort to recommend, ad-
wise, induce or persuade any person
to work or abstain from work or to
become members of a labor union
whether such other is under contract
with relation thereto or not concern
ing any effort to induce any person
to withhold his patronage from any
person, firm or corporation against
whom they have claim or grievance,
and nothing done or not done by any
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pursuance of such contract, agree
ment or combination shall constitute
or be deemed to constitute a conspir-
acy of any criminal offense or be pun
ished or prosecuted as such unless
the act or thing agreed to be done or
not to be done constitutes acts of
physical violence or threats of physi-
cal violence in order to show such
contract, agreement or combination
and any and all actions and things
hereinbefore set forth do consider or
hold unlawful in order to show any
restraining order or injunction be is
sued with relation thereto or for any
cause arising therefrom. Nothing in
this section shall exempt from pun
ishment, otherwise than as herein ac-
cepted, any person guilty of conspira-
cy for which punishment is now pro-
vided by law, but any such law SHALL
as to the agreements, contracts and
combinations and acts or things here
inbefore referred to, be considered as
if this section were therein contained.