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VOL. XXVII. No. 28
By
International Labor News Service.
Los Angeles, Cal.—A stirring plea
for active resistance to the drastic in
junction issued by Federal Judge
Schoonmaker against striking coal
miners at Pittsburgh was made before
the American Federation of Labor
convention here by Lee Hall of Col
umbus, Ohio, district leader of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Mr. Hall declared that the Pitts
burgh Terminal Coal Corporation, in
whose behalf the injunction was is
sued, has tried to evict the miners
from their homes.
Union Won in Lower Courts
The union, Mr. Hall said, won many
cases in the lower courts and pre
vented the eviction of strikers from
the company-owned houses. Bonds
were furnished by the union guaran
teeing payment of the rent to the
company, he said.
"Despite the guarantee of their
rent the company resorted to
what some people call direct ac
tion," Mr. Hall declared, "and
when the courts decided that the
families could remain on the
property, the company forbade
trespassing on its property. This
rule was applied to milk drivers,
to the delivery of foodstuffs and
even doctors were refused per
mission to visit the striking min
ers unless given permission by
the company. Families were pro
hibited from visiting one another
unless the company agreed to al
low such visits.
"In some instances representatives
of the company tore the doors off
houses, removed the roofs and win
dows and did everything they could
to make the places inhabitable all
this despite the fact that the union
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'When the company was unsuccess
ful in its efforts to oust the miners it
obtained an injunction depriving the
union from exercising any rigfots
whatever. We may take action as we
did yesterday on the injunction by
adopting a resolution a hundred times
over and it will accomplish nothing.
The time has come to do more than
adopt resolutions. We must put into
effect actively and aggressively, 100
per cent, the sentimtnts expressed
yesterday in resisting til* wrongful
use of the injunction."
Plans for active resistance of the
injunction are scheduled to be made on
November 14 at Pittsburgh where a
large delegation of representatives of
trade unions will meet to consider the
situation.
EIGHT-HOUR STATUTE
"WORKING SMOOTHLY"
Vancouver, Can. The eight-hour
law in the province of British Colum
bia is "working smoothly," and the
minimum wage of 40 cents an hour
for lumber workers, under the piale
minimum wage act, did not bring
about J'any unusual business depres
sion," says the department of labor
in its annlial report.
Both statutes were opposed by em
ployment interests, who raised the fa
miliar cry that business would be
ruined.
KANSAS MINES SIGN UP
Pittsburgh, Kan.—More than 600
striking miners in this state returned
to work when operators of four mines
signed the Jacksonville agreement.
About 2,000 miners are still out. More
than 3,600 are working under agree
ments.
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A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Labor to Make injunction Chief
Campaign Issue National Meeting
to Deal with Situation
Arbitrary Writs Denounced
By A. F. of L. Convention
As Liberty's Biggest Menace
Limitation of Equity Courts' Power Seen as
Chief Demand of Organized Workers on
Political Party Conventions—Bedford Cut
Stone Decision Stirs Ire of Delegates.
By International Labor News Service.
Los Angeles, Cal.—American or
ganized labor has launched its para
mount issue through the action of this
convention in declaring the injunction
the most menacing threat to American
liberty and in directing that a na
tional labor conference be called in
Washington to "make effective" the
declarations of labor on this subject.
The date is left to the executive coun
cil, which also may invite other bodies
to participate.
That the injunction issue, as the re
sult of action taken by the A. P. of L.
convention here, may become a lead
ing labor issue in the 1928 political
campaign is the opinion of many lead
ers here. In fact, there is much indi
cation that it will head the list of
demands in labor's propositions to
the national party conventions.
Definite Action Urged
The committee report, embodying
the executive council's Report on the
question, calls for repeal of the Sher
man and Clayton acts/ for con
gressional and legislative limitation
and definition of the po vers of equity
courts and for campaigns in favor of
judges who will not abuse their equity
power.
The national labor conference on in
junctions makes two national gather
ings ordered by this convention, the
first having called for a national con
ference to assist the coal strikers, to
be held November 14, in Pittsburgh.
Delegates in Hot Protest
The injunction issue called forth
probably the ablest debate of the con
vention. The Bedford cut stone de
cision, branded by dissenting Supreme
Court justices as bordering on invol
untary servitude, was recognized as
the warning which labor must heed if
its liberties are to be saved from de
struction, and it was this case that
stirred the delegates to hottest pro
test.
There is little doubt that the in
junction issue will be carried into
every political contest of the coming
year, down, to local district contests.
Furuseth Opens Debate
Debate on the injunction ran
through parts of two days. Opening
the discussion, Andrew Furuseth con
demned the misuse of the injunction
and predicted a generation in chains
unless the men of today make sure
of freedom. "Equity is a beautiful
name attached to a rotten thing," he
said. "The decision in the stone cut
ters' case ijs, in my opinion, the most
emphatic warding ever given to the
people of the United States.'' He
added, "Elect, not judges to construe,
but legislators to legislate."
Matthew Woll declared that judges
should not be absolved frojn blame.
He pointed out that legislation alone
will not reach the whole evil, since
the jurisdiction of State courts is,
in some states, defined in the consti-
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tution. "Equity," he warned, "is the
frankenstein that is eating up the
liberties of our people. Both branches
—legislative and judicial—are re
sponsible."
Defy Writs, Woll Says
And then he launched a challenge
Referring to the fact that past con
ventions have adopted resolutions to
defy injunctions, he said: "We have
urged protest, but do we find it? Let
us adopt the report let us bring the
issue
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By International Labor News Service.
Chicago.—Five resolutions unani
mously concurred in by the recent
convention of the Illinois State Fed
eration of Labor embody the legis
lative program of the National Fed
eration of Post Office Clerks before
the forthcoming session of the United
States Congress.
The five resolutions, which were
previously concurred in by the Post
Office Clerks' national convention,
were introduced at East St. Louis by
James A. Greene, William V. Burt,
William J. Nyland, Hal Smith and
Emil Green, delegates from Chicago
Post Office Clerks' Local Union No. 1
Ask End of Speeding Up
The clerks once more ask Congress
to abolish the speed-up system in the
government service. Complaint is
made that, while Congress some years
ago placed its stamp of disapproval
upon the speed-up system, still defi
nite action to abolish the system has
been withheld.
Amendment to the pension law to
raise the maximum to $1,200 a year
and to otherwise place it on a more
equitable basis is asked.
To Seek Night Work Change
Declaring that night work is in
jurious to the health of those so em
ployed, the Post Office Clerks ask en
actment of legislation embodying the
15-minute differential principle for
night work in the postal service.
Congress will be asked to establish
the Saturday half holiday and 44-
before the entire population of our
country."
The convention adopted the coi
cil's report calling a national meeting
in Pittsburgh in November. Presi
dent Green bitterly denounced the coal
police and the Pennsylvania courts
saying he could not imagine such a
situation except "in boss-ridden Penn
sylvania." The meeting served notice
on Pennsylvania political powers that
such abuse must stop.
URGE OLD-AGE PENSIONS
Detroit.—Old-age pensions, to
place the costly almshouse, was urged
by Judge Thomas E. O'Donnell,
speaking before the Fraternal Order
of Eagles.
"The cost of maintaining an old peo
ple's pension is not nearly as great as
the support of these so-called poor
houses," he said.
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Finally, the Post Office Clerks are
asking that their pay be increased
$300 a year. The clerks declare that,
regardless of a postal deficit, the em
ployes in the service are entitled to
adequate compensation and a high
standard of working conditions. Com
plaint is made that Congi-ess has
failed to take cognizance of the rapid
advance in the cost of living during
late years and neglected to provide
sufficient money to pay a decent wage
to the postal employes.
State Federation to Help
Officers of the Illinois State Federa
tion of Labor will assist the National
Federation of Post Office Clerks in ob
taining favorable action on all of
these measures. All members of Con
gress from Illinois will be asked to
vote favorably upon bills designed to
ameliorate the conditions complained
of.
Los Angeles, Cal.—A resolution
passed by the American Federation of
Labor convention here urged in
creased pay for post office employes
of the country and affirmed a com
mittee recommendation for a contin
ued effort toward the enactment by
Congress of a bill providing a
10
per cent salary increase for post of
fice employes.
THOMAS F. FLAHERTY
Secretary-Treasurer National Feder
ation of Post Office Clerks
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San Francisco.—In an arbitration
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that the union's demand for an eight
hour day represented the members'
sentiment. Counsel for the workers
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