Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-10
WAGNER ASSA|LS
USE OF INJUNCTION
BIameS Government Leaders
for Unemployment in
Labor Address.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, Mass, October 1o.-United
States Senator Robert r. Wagner Of
New York, in an address today before
the convention Of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, placed responsibility for
unemployment at the door Of business
and Government leaders who, he said,
neglect in prosperous times to prepare
for periods Of depression.
He also assailed use Of the injunc-
ton, the sole utility Of which, he said,
"is TO hafass the union, to hamper its
work, and to render imperative the
very function the trade organization
was designed TO exercise"
Where" he asked, discussing inem-
ployment, sis the worker who has not
run the gantlet of loss Of work be-
cause Of seasonal slack, OF periodic de-
preston, Of foreign competition, OF
change in fashion. Of machine Npbsti-
tltion?"
Says Rancor Has Increased.
Having experienced those, how the
unemployed worker must ironically
smile when he reads the well-meanfng
he would resume his normal purchases
prosperity would resume its uninter-
rupted course. wonder what his emo
ton Is when he reads the ofiicial as
surance that our fundamental national
as is are undiminished. He knows
only too well that he lives in land OF
plenty which he had in the past shared
in the making. These facts only ag-
gravate the rancor in his heart that he
must. nevertheless, 60 without work
and without wages
Senator Wagner asserted the Ameri-
can people will not "submissiyely accept
these recurrent and frightening pc
RODS Of joblessness. They have learned,
he said. they cannot live by optimism
alone.
Declares Plan Stubboi My Refused.
He said 1t has been known for a
long time that private industry could
contribute to the sterilization Of the
seasonal and chronological aspects Of
unemployment If 1t would assume more
seriously the responsibility to provide
regular employment. and the States and
Federal Government could materially
aid by timing the introduction of large
vide flow of wages when other sources
we're dry, but that I'VE Stubbornly re-
fuse to put any such plan into syste-
matte and efficient operation"
Turning to use of the injunction in
labor disputes, he said:
For 80 years We have agitated
against the labor Injunction. Bills in
the Federal and State Legislatures have
been passed. with loud acclaim, greet
ing the prophecy of their advocates that
ali the abuses of the injunction were
thereby remedied. We thought we had
changed the law We thought we had
modified the procedure so as to conform
little more closely to our notions of
justice and fair play. And now, after
three decades Of excitement, the ais
lance we have Travelled is too short to
be measured"
Throughout the United States there
are today numerous inundated terrific
lies where, to all intents and purposes,
the Constitution has been suspended.
local law superseded, and the only gov
erning code is the injunctive edict of
Federal or State court"
ut appeared today that Charles p
Howard had persuaded his fellow COM
mittee members that they should
recommend to the convention modifica-
ton OF the Volstead law to permit the
manufacture and sale of 2.75 per cent
beer. He threatened to fight the COM
nittee report from the convention floor
II repeal OF the eighteenth amendment
were recommended. Howard, president
OF the International Typographical
Union, Is the only dry on the COM
mittee.