THE OIL SCANDALS UP TO DATE
THE OIL SCANDALS UP TO DATE A Week in Washington floods may come and floods may go, Dams may bust, tornados blow; gut aheays there's the oily flow* For oil g°cs on forever. (V. WASHINGTON. »joW...
...As Professor Llewellyn's talk zvas not token down verbatim he is responsible neither for the form nor the warding of the article here presented...
...Railroads eon*, spired with the Mine operators to btaalt up the United Mine Workers of America...
...M socle Shoal* Gees Thtwagh The oil scandals have so pswdosminated the pottUeal scene that Z have-not, had, Xorrte' blfl for the governsaerdai- marketing of power, developed at Mrwahe...
...joW it seems that net only Will Hay...
...The Senator from Idaho is almost as cautious as our distinguished President, and you...
...v ' To the formation of such a •party- the Socialists of this country have piedkessV themselves...
...You can't enjoin a competitor from trying to get your business even if you are damaged thereby...
...It would be incorrect to say that Mr...
...v This would cut down the tone to A days, and time, as we know, te ao Important factor in strike cases...
...They- win meet in convention in New York Oity on April lgtsv and I urge all my readers to loBow the proceedings of that convention with the ¦ greatest care...
...may be, sure that he finds the tents of the Republican far too comfortable to do any wandering eft the reservation on his own book...
...Too bad Senator La Foilette is not alive to behold the retirement of this gentleman...
...Old Sam Insull, for example, the boss of all the public utilities in the Middle West, has gone on a hurried trip to Europe for his health...
...case, avoid cases when decision is likely to go against them, as in West Virginia, they could equally well develop a far-sighted steal egy and build up a strong chato of pro-labor decisions...
...San Adams wrote a book called "Revelry" which sorely shocked a lot of good oeople because it Intimated that those in the Hardin' Administration might not have been the honest and conscientious public servants which the old-line papers assured us they were...
...There are almost no cases where the laborers have enjoined the employers...
...Seen (Br s New Leaser CsCTaesoaaaatl Bake, Idaho—The Progressive Party of Idaho, which rose on the crest of farmer discontent some six years ago, b going the way of Roosevelt's "army of the Lord" which he drilled against Tsft in 1912...
...But, mostly a sympathetic strike, or on* to aid the purpose of other unions, te enjoinable...
...Gomp-ers and the A. F. of L., were bamboozled into thinking the Clayton Act a charter of liberties...
...This indicates one way of attack: to deal by legislation with each particular evil of this, particular type of injunction...
...Ray McKaig, the party suutager, has been lured from the party by his interest in sport and is engaged In promoting a professional base ball team for Boise...
...Meanwhile, how fares the strike with its leaders in cells...
...It is to be hoped that they will feel the stronger for the thought that the white workers represented in the International Federation of Trade Unions are on their side...
...confidence in it because of its timid and opportunist leadership...
...Those who were denouncing La Foilette as an enemy of the people back in the war days are most of them undergoing either a forced retirement to private life,' or are facing some kind of court procedure or Jail sentence...
...Injunctions are far too important in the, business world, in questions of prevention of violation of- contract, or infringement of patent rights, copyrights, etc...
...A corporation is a single person hi law...
...A N INJUNCTION is a judicial writ or process of a court of equity, commanding a person or persons named therein, even in advance of wrongful action, to <?o or r.ot to do a particular thing or several particular things...
...Hoover, the most likely successor to Calvin, says that he will follow Coolidge's policies.' There is a great deal of speculation In Washington as to whether CooUdge, seeing in advance the storm-clouds that are now breaking around his party, decided to take no chances on running again, and to duck while the ducking was good...
...istoli the defeat of the Lame Duck MB...
...How will they collect...
...The offices of the local branches of the Union are being subjected to search raids, and (he officials, prosecuted, while in Natal things are even worse, for the farmers are destroying and burning the huts of union members...
...the censor of our movie moral* and y/tiOva P Butler, otherwise known ai -Patty" Butler, President Ooolidge's boy friend, now Chairman of the National committee, but even the holy Andrew Helton, who has been called "the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Al-sgsndcr Hamilton" are an smeared up in the latest developments in the oil scandal...
...In labor cases it has often been the practice of the employers' lawyers to draw up long detailed documents enjoining workers from numerous forms of violence which the bosses know very well their employees have no intention of committing...
...Shumate Not Largest Contributor in the South In Judson King's story of the power trust last week, the following lines appeared: "It is also a fact that the heaviest contributor in the South was Frank E. Shumate, vice-president and legislative representative of the Georgia Railway Sc Power Co...
...It began by capturing Republican primaries but it was forced to independent party action when both Republicans and Democrats . in the legislature put across s new primary law which prohibited Independent voters from, voting in old party primaries...
...The purpose for which an injunction maybe given are broad...
...Bands however are easy to trace and the crafty Hays had run around among nit rich Republican friends begging them ts take the embarassing things off his bands and give him cash Instead...
...To realise their potency we must bear the following facts In mind...
...but they never do...
...Not that they never could...
...What te Possible Practically something can be done but instead of using, a machine gun against all injunctions it te neeeasery to use a rifle on this particular kind...
...But a combination of three or more laborers looks different...
...Unionists must follow suit tf they hope to get anywhere...
...The L C. U. has likewise, bearing in mind the condition laid down by the I. F. T. U. when admitting it, that it should affiliate with any centre for white and black workers which might be established in South Africa, sent in a formal application for admission to the South African Trades Union Congress of white workers...
...It must be obeyed...
...be well tost before the strikes* "have even had a chance to present their side of the case to the Judge...
...Morik O'Neill If they visit religious institutions abroad, they may come upon another witness wanted by the Senate Committee, in the person of James E. O'Neill, who is hiding in a monastery in Italy...
...In the meanwhile Senator Borah, who Is one of the greatest puzzles in political life, is making a little private hay for himself by running around the sountry hat in hand, asking the Republicans to chip in on a jack pot for the return of the money which naughty Harry Sinclair donated towards the wiping out of the Republican deficit...
...remember that it was...
...A Tough...
...He has legal "Justification" in that he is pursuing his own interest by taking these' customers he can obtain...
...testimony before, the nenatnrlsl investigating committee to the effecjt that both the New York Can/ trei and...
...Their plans have gone agley a bit, however, because of the charge, which is probably true, that Democratic leaders connived with the Republican leaders in 1922 and 1923 to suppress the names of those who paid up both old party deficits...
...That would be a ouin^n*Weu to injure the ¦mpteyw without "tevntul Justification.' It is, therefore, legal to strike for the unionisation of your shop...
...However, In most states, as soon as you get to the condition, where you have not only your own shop but the whole industry unionised you may be restrained from making your work effective by keeping in line any shop which decides to go into an open shop basis...
...In conclusion, unions would be we*U advised to got some good lawyer*., There is hope in the fact that such a man as OUphant was called to to fight the & B> T. case...
...They maintain that when the Republican nominating convention, discovers the essential weakness of Hoover, particularly among the wheat farmers, and the effects upon the public mind of the oil disclosures, there win be a stampede to CooUdge, and he will be drafted as the strongest candidate to save his party's face...
...It te legal to strike for higher wages, but it is illegal, and enJoinaMe, to strike to get rid of a non-union man West Virginia and Massachusetts apart, at present you can strike in most states for your own purposes, without being enjoined...
...Frank E. Shumate, etc...
...ahaptog of lew, under htejbto mtollhynt) arntimed spJfctane*,—tor the brunt of the env ptoyers...
...Ton, could pass that code so that the meet prejudiced judge in the world e*nahr% issue an injunction to many eases to which he how does...
...Baek-9tajrs Spokeewan...
...This Is one of the most amazingly naive performances hi recent poMttcal history...
...In 1917 the owners of the Hitchman mines In West Virginia made its workers sign an agreement not to Join the United Mine Workers while in their employ...
...The United Mine Workers sent men 'to organise the miners secretly...
...It is Issued by the Judge at any hour of the day or night, to go into effect immediately, and solely a) the request, and on the representstione, of the plaintiff...
...The first of these is that there is no hoaxing from the defendant's side for the issuance of a temporary injunction...
...Tariff Commissioner...
...A picture has been drawn for him of anarchy rampant, freemen deprived of the results of their hard eraned efforts, be is emotionally aroused by the citations of all the violence the defendants have done, or plan to do, and he is in quite the right mood to enjoin them very thoroughly indeed...
...The party had its origin In wide discontent with Republican reaction in the state...
...The Supreme Court said that be was right...
...It te anything but wise for the A. F. of L. to waste money and energy backing this bill...
...The Progressive Party might have evolved into a movement widen eventually could have been linked up wtth a working class movement in the nation, but Idaho Socialists never had any...
...Somewhere, in the long document will be a few obscure clauses really hitting the points of vital importance to the employers...
...There te a reasonable, political possibility of getting across the following...
...Most court* have gotten over this and will admit the right ot worker* to strike...
...The Story Comes Out Little by little under the skilful questionings of Senator Nye and Senator Walsh, in charge of the investigations Into the oil scandals the whole dirty story of how the Big Boys finance their pontics is coming out...
...All these abominations are however only having the contrary effect to that desired by the Government...
...It was this so-ca}Jed ear emy of the people who, in a two-hour speech in the Senate, long before Teapot Dome got on...
...The most obvious remedy, therefore, cannot be used...
...The Employers' Association in IUtoote has been ¦electing case* to Illinois tor 30 years, each one going an inch or tfjo further than the last, to bring, up on appeal...
...Then again, one of Calvin Coolidge's fair-haired boys, the Honorable John J. Esch of Wisconsin gets a terrible trimming when the Senate, by a vote of 39 to 29...
...You thank him, and...
...A Useless Bill At present there Is a useless bill hi Congress (Senator Shipstead's) to stop an injunctions for the purpose of protecting "property...
...In scores of strikes the losses which may occur due to an improper Injunction are enormous...
...4. Another possible remedy would be a law making it necessary for a bench of 3 Judges, Instead of 1, to pass on the facts to make an Injunction permanent...
...Idaho Socialists have through all this J*cd, seen their forces dwindle, but a Spartan band held together, confident *°»t the Progressives would eventually *? »bat they are now actually doing...
...to these same Mends, and ask them to kick in for a fund to give the 'money back to the burglar, thereby clearing yourself and your outfit of any so-called stigma of shame...
...ten*Race Prejudice Wins Upper Hand Among So...
...And thirdly, injunctions in labor cases run hand in hand with the use of the police...
...A lot of them, as a matter of fact, are running away from the country as fast as their trembling legs can take them...
...On the whole, it's been another tough week for the Republicans...
...Be is an interesting, type of off-day liberal, who lacks the moral courage and the fundamental philosophy to do anything much about bis liberalism except, make such vague gestures as this, refund business...
...The second point to bear in mind is that injunctions hold, no matter how long, until they are set aside...
...Tbte proved unsatisfactory as all such action has proven In American politics...
...For years CooUdge had known the full details of this corruption within the ranks of his own party...
...The use of injunctions and the scope of their application have constantly widened...
...Points Important to Employers First, a judge may grant an injunction of almost any conceivable nature, may even restrain a person from doing what—apart from the injunction—he would have every legal right to do...
...George's primary campaign—which is the real election In the south—was Mr...
...Following the Hitchman precedent this policy of issuing injunctions against organization of unions spread like wildfire...
...A combination of men, determined upon striking all at once, not one at a time, acting in agreement, te pretty awful, a regular conspiracy...
...Meanwhile, of course, 'the temporary injunction is in force, and a strik/ may...
...Back In 1900 legislation against the yellow dog contract was declared unconstitutional, to 1017 Arizona passed an act that no injunction should be issued in a labor dispute of a restaurant keeper, Truax, who argued that the statute deprived him of the equal protection of the law...
...While the memory of republics is notoriously short, there are some in this country who...
...Yellow Dog Is Legal First, there are some things you cant do...
...The characteristics of injunctions, and the methods of obtaining them give tremendous power to the employers...
...To be sure, the Democrats do not got so much dirty money as do the Republicans...
...But la Massachusetts still a strike may be legal or illegal...
...And if the Sinclair money did not take care of them, namely the naval oil lease swindlers, the Standard Oil would...
...Fror trewlve Party was organized and its leaders declared that the old organisations were alike...
...cases on appeal in states like Arizona, for '•ntnnrt...
...Paced with this situation, the...
...Moreover, and especially a person, may be enjoined from an act 'which be has not yet committed but is alleged to plan or Intend to...
...The oil' aaeadete are of gnat teeereeb to...
...A plaintiff always picks the judge to whom he wants to apply for an injunction...
...Secondly, you don't get injunction* In other cases wntktog aiwaya hi terms of rich against poor, haves against havenots...
...In Connecticut, and elsewhere, ycu will be accused of depriving a non-union man of his constitutional right to work at his trade in the neighborhood...
...There Was testimony before the Walsh mveottgatteg committee that Wilbur W. Marsh, Democratic treasurer, had caned upon Chairman Up horn of the Republicans to go Into a compact to make no public report* of the cash accounts of either party far the years between the 192S and the \9t* national campaigns...
...But unionization was not a justifiable purpose.' The court was persuaded that the organizers were not trying to help Hitchman miners...
...Edward P. Courtgan resigns from the Commission, sending a hot note saying that he is resigning because Chairman Marvin of that ridiculous body is a fanatic on the subject of high tariff, and that there can be no such thing as scientific adjustment of the tariff- so long as the Commission is dominated by the Marvin group, and other Republican politicians...
...The constitutionality of tsto ofcvuse was attacked, ttege ornate* It rlah»1ng that the equity power resided In the courts and could not be thus lhettod, Bet the courts have held this clause constitutional...
...It was inherited here in America from England, where it was used by the chancellors in equity proceedings to supplement the common law where the law proved Inadequate to give a wronged party relief...
...They were to refrain from addressing any person employed in the mines, or even those considering being employed in the mines, with the purpose of saying anything to make them believe that they might gain any advantage by joining the United Mine Workers...
...Africa Unionism (By a New Leader Correspondent) Johannesburg, South Africa—It will be remembered that the union of South African colored workers (the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union) which is affiliated with the International Federation of Trade Unions has recently undertaken a thorough revision of its rules, in order to bring the active young organisation into complete harmony with trade union principles on the basis of the experience acquired by its secretary during his last year's visit to Europe...
...Adams should now write a sequel to the shape of a mystery story called "Crooks at Large" which would show how mild be had been in his first book and tell the truth about the gentlemen who are running the country today...
...There to every reason to believe that the decision in favor ot the A. P. of I*, will bo upheld on appeal Labor has power...
...Hence In the past a strike was often enjoined before it was called Strikes were not possible...
...The only thing they overlooked is that it is equally impossible to measure the damage to laborers if they cant organise...
...The """'"ff^" Injunction The most recent use of the injunction is in the prevention of the organisation of workers...
...It registers poltooeBm, Then the wave recedes, and 1r?*'iffH te toft on the beach but a Clayton Aeh because of the lack of decent, tishnteal, lawyer-like advice...
...The "civilisation" of the ruling white race has been pressing longer and more heavily upon black than upon white work-, era, and they have therefore a double claim upon the sympathy of those among the white races who are ashamed of such a "civilisation," i.e...
...A burglar comes to you and- gives yon a part at his haul...
...Many- unionists, including Mr...
...It takes even'd longer 'time for an appeal to a higher court from an Injunction which hat ence been made permanent...
...This Is a working *•» congregation for the most part who •tow something about the problems of % workers and are glad to assist in Wtertng privations...
...And how could they possibly collect from the laborers who have nothing...
...1. Make it possible, by statute, for a temporary Injunction to labor ream, to be issued for only 48 hours...
...This has fortunately become much less common today...
...to meet dynamite wtjtb dynamite...
...2. if any injunction to a labor die* put* te made permanent, an appeal, by statute, is to have precedence over alt other cases, and be heard wlthto % week...
...A combination of persons, all St whom are part of the corporation acting as a corporate entity, ™»*""g plans for their own interests, te not a conspiracy...
...Many things which "one | person," a corporation, may freely do, such a combination may not do...
...Again there is another group that believes that all these exposures are working out to the best Interests of the canny Vermonter...
...Bakery case and to the L R. T. case, te Ufeelr to impress the judges favorably, and, until they have set up a current of *iit*seltj against the Hitchman...
...commit...
...Llewellyn is Professor of Law in Columbia University...
...he road is clear with the assurance « » Socialist ticket in the field and *h» party win again take the leadership ¦ representing the working class in the Political field...
...that was to be expected, rtwajltoa,, »>g that the Senate te now a regular lame, duck pool, and the...
...Esch was one of- the most vindictive opponents of the late Senator La Foilette in Wisconsin, and was co-author in the Esch-Cummfhs Act, known as the- Transportation Aci_of I920t which handed the railroads back to private interests, giving them everything that they asked for...
...There is no chance of such a bill passing...
...The employers' well-paid lawyers pick judges with whose haoitual emotional reactions, and with whose history in reference to injunctions and to labor cases in general, they are familiar^ If an injunction is disobeyed, even if the deefndant claims it has been improperly issued, he is arrested for contempt of court and brought before the judge who issued the injunction...
...An injunction was obtained against any union official, delegate or representative coming on the property of the mines...
...However, as the Democratic Party was a minority in the state the Progressives arranged for fusion candidates in quite a number of districts...
...t An Anti-Injunction Program Wanted: Labor Strategy to Meet The Strategy of Capital By Karl N. Llewellyn (A report of a lecture under me auspices of the New* York Chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...where the precedent of the daehtona, to New York, to the Exchange...
...And if the investigation to find out just who chipped In to wipe out the Republican deficit and help elect Cal Cool-idge keeps up, I suspect a lot more prominent men will be taking trips abroad for their health...
...Each laborer is one person...
...Thus an injunction or appeal, may be declared to have been Improperly issued, and to restrain the defendants from doing things which were wholly lawful, but, until it has actually been set aside...
...The Hitchman people decided to do some real enjoining...
...They were merely trying to help mine unionists elsewhere by enlarging the union...
...All these revelations have, of course, up to last week, been nuts to the Democrats, who think .they find in them that long-sought for issue which will carry them through the coming Presidential campaign...
...There is no use getting certain laws on the statute books unless you first alter the personnel of the Supreme Court...
...Even an ahs* judge could only get his fist through and not be able to climb all the way through...
...And they had no "Justification" to promoting their own interest, because they were not "competitors" of the employer...
...The party is going back to the CooUdge kernel this year, leaving every intelligent tenser and worker who is opposed to the capitalist parties no other way ol expressing their views except through the Socialist Party...
...He can ll"p~» huge fines on strikers for disregarding the injunction, or send them to JaJL If an appeal impends, he can refuse to admit the men to bail...
...Bat, says Andy, when he got home 4Kb the $50,000 worth of bonds, he gelled a rat, said rat being Will Hays, aUd promptly returned these bonds suspecting very rightly that they might tn part of the boodle which Harry Sinclair had stolen from the people of the United States in his crooked leasing of Tsspot Dome...
...Time is money to strikers, and more, imagine what several months' wait may mean to thousands of strikers, living, on union grants, and to their families...
...When they all get together to act in concert, the situation begins to look much like terroriaatton...
...And incidentally it was none other than Calvin CooUdge who, in his function as Vice-President, presiding over the Senate, heard every word of that speech...
...It te nesaeayar...
...refuses to confirm his arjoointmeht to the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...This is to be: honesty in elections, and a general pointing of the finger at corruption...
...The I.C.U...
...But they get as much as they deserve, and can be counted on to sit In wtth the bribe-takers across the Congressional able whenever any issue affecting the welfare of the public is slated to be killed...
...Psychologically tins is a splendid way to tackle even the most honest and unbiassed judge...
...Idho "Progressive" Party Is Expiring...
...For many years now, injunctions have been granted against the workers in labor disputes...
...Considering these points, and the fact that the vast majority of Judges although honest men occasionally have strange views, and the further fact that the cumbersome machinery of the equity courts is so fixed that strikes can be broken, and organizations topped by even yellow dog contracts, what can we do about it...
...3. Legal reasons for strike* might be codified...
...Who can reckon the possible damage that this wUJ_ inflict upon employers...
...This pats a crimp into the honesty in elections issue...
...only "one person" is involved...
...But at that, it may go over big...
...It did, however, contain one good clause—that a defendant should be given a trial by Jury on facts and on intent, in contempt cases...
...Maybe when Insull is in Europe he may meet up with Blackmer, the missing oil witness who has been hiding out in foreign parts ever since the inquiry started...
...the workers...
...It now appears that toe remnant of the party wlH support Republican candidates in the coming elections and this will be the end of the movement...
...ran around, the m Ighanihnort gassing your friends to hide it up...
...such, things as honesty to polities so tone eg »p«k itlcian can win the contribution* of the rich and: the votes of the poor bp toe-, tic* of terrorism, propaganda and- pi* In downright thievery, Tew only way, out of- tbav roest is the formation eg a pasto-o* wwhora worsen to the factories.ond> ofjfcces and- feres* who as* net depend-* ent upon- Btortetr* and rtohenps for their very wrtotrnoe...
...neominfa, and- all ether, panares*, h Ives, Inasmuch as they reveal to rVtsa\ the toner weaktogs of the eeortoiatc fosses that acaatoate our saeesnmoas tnitap, ¦ Iwft yean we have been pointing .oufc that there te no dlfftroooe whataoeeea to the two old parties, that by the vary, nature of thing* both, ana dependent upon bag business tntayanto ton their eg*, istonee...
...To cite an example, an injunction might be granted at the request of the ultimate heir to a property to restrain the present life-holder from cutting down and selling trees on the property...
...They get the man the police cant —the man who te not on the street...
...This was a misprint caused by the accidental dropping of a few lines of type...
...the Pennsylvania...
...It should have read...
...Greatly distressed, you run...
...Other rights could be protected by injunction but those of employers could not be, if this law remained on the books...
...So the courts used to declare, and to some extent still do...
...aw* Takes Collection For Suffering Miners Watervliet, N. Y.—The Third Avenue ehtlaidiut Church of Watervliet, N. Y., °* which Rev...
...Those used in labor disputes differ in important respects from other injunctions...
...Yet it te vitally necessary that labor do something about injunctions...
...the front page, gave the full outline of the crooked transactions involved in the naval oil leases...
...Will Gei Be Called...
...Week for the G.O.P...
...Xf the A. P. of L. would bctog...
...The talk of Senator Borah heading any third party movement is sheer tommyrot...
...It will be recalled that Mr...
...He Is now string his attention to his investments in coal mining...
...The Judge, in* general, sits alone...
...This application has been refused, and it is to be presumed that race prejudice has much to do with the refusal...
...It was Insull money spent for the election of Frank Smith in Illinois that cost Smith his Senate seat, the fact that a utility man should finance the campaign of a Senatorial candidate being a bit too raw...
...Meanwhile, the Government looks on passively, and has even refused to sell the I. C. U. land for the purpose of providing shelter for the evicted members...
...We have had 60 years of ass* tery ot strikes and 36 year* of town on the subject...
...Our courts are always clogged and it may be maW months before the case is heard...
...Return to G.O.P...
...This te a loag eneetjte period on which to base a code...
...It was this same O'Neill who was overheard by a waiter in the Bankers' Club in New York to say "Oh Hell, we'll make a hundred millions a year...
...Frank W. Voge'll Is pastor, after listening to a description of toe sufferings of the miners' families hi the soft coal fields by the pastor at a regular service, took up a collection of almost forty dollars as & contribution •Od filled a number of barrels with ctoth-¦* tor the families...
...The first stop to it came here in New York in the Exchange Bakery case, followed by the two very recent I. R. T. cases...
...Hate-, we base the...
...The holes in ttsi code need not be serious...
...and that there will be no such, thing, nor can there be any...
...He has no jury no precedent, no law, to guide or to control him...
...Shumate was the largest contributor in the South...
...It is not at alt necessary to think in terms of graft or of bias to realize the great advantage this gives him...
...Democratic-RaoobUca*-conspiracy to deliver the country ones' more into the hands of a little group of greedy men...
...The second, and related point, Is that a long time may occur between the granting of a temporary injunction and the hearing for a permanent injunction...
...This brings us logically to the next two points...
...Andy says that he took a mysterious package of Liberty Bonds from Will Hays Who was apparently very anxious to get rid of them and to have from Mellon spot cash that isn't easy to spot, In return...
...His contribution was, however, the largest made for Senator's George's primary campaign outside of .that made, by Oeoxge himself...
...In studying the history of labor injunctions in the United States we find that it has passed through several phases...
...Sinclair being a conscientious robber had decided to split up with the rest of the gang and he had made his contribution to the Republican campaign deficit in the shape of Liberty Bonds...
...There has been a tot of talk of house-cleaning in the Republican, ranks, and ;there is a very vague possibility that Borah may blossom forth at the Republican convention Aft the man who did the trick...
...If a strike fails there are Involved not only the money losses, but possibly the future prestige and power of the union, and the psychological set-back in the workers' forces in consequence of defeat...
...It is also a fact that the heaviest contributor to Mr...
...But now we find Injunctions used not only against te methods* of conducting strikes but also against the organisation of the workers into unions...
...Now Mr...
...That's because they're not to a position to deliver the goods...
...But like Andrew Melton, his noble Secretary of the Treasury, be has chosen to keep his mouth shut, and has never said one word hi condemnation of as extensive a corruption in high places as this country has ever seen...
...In the first place, they work only one way, »g-'"'» the workers...
...La Foilette who originally unearthed the oU scandals...
...in thaw private safes...
...is growing in strength, its membership continues to rise, and its leaders are as courageous as ever...
...The most conspicuous leader of the party was H. F. Samuels who had been Its candidate for Governor...
...One by one the roses fall...
...Then a detsctres discovers that you have bean acting as fanes, and the case fats into the newspapers...
...In Idaho two years ago the party polled m the neighborhood of 38,000 votes, lead-hg the Democratic vote by about 10,000 and falling short of the Republican vote bl about 16,000...
...This is the more regrettable, because the South African Government has lately striven to apply with great stringency the recent Native Administration Act...
...The chances are more than fair that even if a number of clauses are struck out the injunction will include the propositions the lawyers are most desirous of including...
...In the Hitchman case it was argued that the organisers were interfering with the mine-operators' freedom of access to the labor market...
...At first injunctions were issued against strikes themselves, not against the means of conducting strikes...
...Consider the principle* involved...
...Per the Boot a list pasey is the only one to the field abte to make-any sort of-'opposition during the osnv-ing campaign to the oU-amsored, cast ¦ talist-controlled...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 14
