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CARH. Secretary.
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FEDERAL RAIDS DENOUNCED.
Fiery Speeches at Baltimore Meet
ing in Defense of Reds.
BALTIMORE. Md.. November in.?
At two public meetings held here yes
terday afternoon and last night fiery
speeches were delivered denouncing
the raids made by government agents
upon the radicals, and the audiences
were worked up to a high pitch. All
attacks upon the government and
sympathetic references to the Rus
sian soviet were loudly applauded.
Mrs. Elizabeth Flynn of the Work
ers' Defense League of New York was
the principal speaker at the night
meeting. At both meetings collections
were taken up for the defense of the
n.en arrested in the Saturday raids.
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TOLEDO, Ohio. November 10.?Toledo
today entered Its second day of non
street cars determined to fight to a
finish the avowed effort of the Toledo
Railways and Light Company to ef
fect repeal of the ouster ordinance
passed by a vote of the people at the
election last Tuesday.
City officials, also reiterated their
stand of yesterday?that the ordinance
would not be repealed, neither will the
company be given a franchise. They
are angry because Henry L. Doherty of
New York, head of the concern which
controls the local traction company,
spirited the cars into Michigan before
daylight on Sunday morning without
notice to the public.
Will Meet With Council.
Mayor Cornell Schreiber. who intro
troduced the ouster ordinance in coun
cil last June 30. will meet with the
common council tonight. It will be the
first meeting of that body since the
cars ceased running although the
mavor has held a conference with his
cabinet, at which it was decided nothing
could be done at present.
A resolution will be introduced to
night looking to the repeal of the
ouster. It is understood that the
councilmen will vote against repeal.
It is pointed out that should it be
repealed it would have to be submit
ted to the voters, and law authorities
have not yet found a way in which a
special election could be held, under
the terms of the city charter.
Insists on Ouster Repeal.
Frank R. Coates. resident^ president
of the traction company, declared to
day that the cars will be returned
only when the ouster ordinance is re
?ealed and the company is given a
ranchise. In this he only repeated
the statement made by Mr. Doherty
yesterday.
Meantime, the car riders who voted
to drive the cars off the streets are
paying all the way from 10 cents to
50 cents, getting to their work this
morning in private motor cars. Under
the rate of car fare they were riding
for 6 cents with a 2-cent charge for
transfers.
Judge John M. Killits of the United
States district court here said last i
night that if any court action is be
gun to deal with the present situa
tion it can be brought in no other
but federal court. He declared that
taking the cars into Michigan does
r.ot change the jurisdiction of the
Toledo federal court.
GERMAN MUSK RETURNS
TOPHUS; FEMES!
Wagner on Concert Program; Two j
in Audience Voice Objections, j
Score Leave Building.
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, November 9.?Wagner was
selected to represent German music,
the presentation of which was re
sumed yesterday at the Pas de Loup
concert, the "Meistersinger" overture
being rendered and marking the defi
nite return of the Teutonic classics*
Two persons among the audience
audibly protested. A gray-bearded
nlan, in the dead silence preceding the
opening of the overture, the last num
ber on the programme, rose and^drew
attention to the war. A woman also
made a somewhat unintelligible pro
test. Both were hurried out by
guards, who had been prepared for
such an occurrence. A score of per
sons had previously left the building.
The conductor of the concert, Rene
Baton, declared that interruptions
against German music would not be
tolerated. He regarded it as a ques
tion of art and said he proposed to
make up the programs four-fifths of
French music and one-fifth of^all for
eign music, including German.
A vote of three Pas de Loup concert
audiences on the subject was an- |
nounced as 4,983 favoring the return
of German music, and 213 opposing it.
British Ship Being Towed In.
LONDON. November 9.?According
to a wireless message received here
today, the British steamsfiip Winni
peg, from Victoria, British Columbia,
for Queenstown. is reported disabled
off the west coast of Ireland and is
being towed to Queenstown by the
British steamer Pendragon Castle.
The latter is bound from Galveston
for Antwerp.
A. F. OF L. INDORSES STRIKE;
PLEDGES TO BACK MINERS
Issues Statement in Which Injunction Pro
ceedings Are Scored?Holds Lever Act
Never Enacted for Such Purpose.
A. F. L. COUNCIL INDORSES
MINERS IN STRIKE CRISIS
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Labor's manifesto, adopted at a special meeting; of the execu
i tive council of the American Federation of Labor yesterday:
Declared Judge Anderson's injunction to be an invasion of the
i rights of the miners, intended to starve the strikers into submission
by cutting off strike benefits.
Demanded withdrawal of the mandatory injunction, "to restore
confidence in the institutions of our country and respect for the
courts."
Declared the Lever act, basis of the injunction, never was in>
tended to apply in cases of strikes or lockouts.
Declared the action of the government was "of such a nature
that it staggers the human mind."
Asserted that "by all the facts in the case the miners' strike is
: justified," and that "we indorse it" and "pledge to the miners the
full support of the American Federation of Labor."
The executive council of the Ameri
can Federation of l,abor last night in
dorsed the strike of the coal miners
and pledged support in the following:
statement:
Washington, D. C.,
November 9. 1919.
The executive council of the
American Federation of I^abor.
called into special session in the
city of Washington for the ex
press purpose of considering the
coal s'rike. the conditions which
brougl on the strike, as well as
the court procedings brought by
the government, submit to our
fellow citizens . and to our fellow
workers the following statement:
The executive council is of the
opinion that the officers of the
T'nited Mine Workers of America
did everything in their power to
avert this great industrial contro
versy. Of all the great industries
in our country .there is none so
dangerous to human life as the
coal industry.# The men who go
down under the ground to dig coal,
so that the domestic and indus
trial needs of the nation may be
supplied, are engaged ill work more
hazardous than any other employ
ment. Due consideration has nev
er been given to the danger sur
rounding the coal miners. There is
no other clkss of employment
where each individual worker is so
isolated and in whose districts
there is such a lack of opportunity
for social intercourse and enjoy
ment.
Points to Miners' Hardships.
The condition of the miner and
his family is such that he is prac
tically deprived not only of sun
shine and fresh air. but to a cer
tain extent he is deprived of the
association and companionship of
all other human beings outside of
his own particular class, who are
themselves engaged in the dan
gerous and unhealthy occupation
of coal mining. The miners suf
fer more than any other workers
from periods of compulsory un
employment. Authentic statistics
show that the miners have less
than 200 days of employment
during each year. The wages of
the miners consequently, having to
spread over the entire year, are
greatly reduced as a result of the
nonemployment existing in that
industry.
The high cost of living has pre
sented itself in perhaps a more
serious form in isolated mining
camps than in large industrial
centers. There is usually not the
same opportunity for the miners
in the mining camps to make their
purchases to such advantage as is
presented in other localities. Their
isolation prevents this.
Steps Taken at Convention.
The United Mine Workers, in
their convention, held during the
month of September in the city of
Cleveland, adopted a positive dec
laration demanding improved con
ditions of employment for the
miners. They further instructed
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by negotiations with the operators
the working conditions that tile
convention unanimously adopted.
There were almost 2.200 delegates
seated in the convention, repre
senting 500,000 organized miners.
They further positively and ex
plicitly instructed their officers,
that unless an agreement was
reached on or before the first day
of November, 1919, the resolution
of the convention calling for a
strike on November 1, 1919, should
be communicated to the members
ship. There was no alternative ex
cept for the officers, who are elect
ed by the membership, to carry out
the direct instructions of the mem
bership or resign from their posi
tions as officers. In which e\ent
chaos and confusion would result.
The officers of the mine workers,
with their scale committee, en
tered into conferences and discus
sions with the operators in the city
of Buffalo. They stated at the con
ference that they had full power to
negotiate an agreement; in other
words, that they had the power to
give and take in the conference.
The employers refused to make
any offer whatever. L.ater on tlie
miners answered the call of the
Secretary of Labor and further en
deavored to reach- an agreement,
but failed. The officers then proceed
ed to carry out the instructions of
their membership and communi
cated the results of the failure of
negotiations, and by order of the
convention the strike automatical
ly took effect November 1, 1919.
Beady to Negotiate.
The machinery which has existed
for years and which has been suc
cessful in bringing about agree
ments between the miners and the
operators still exists, and they, as
representatives of the miners, were
and are ready and willing to enter
into negotiations without reserva
tion to reach an agreement.
At this time, our government in
terjected itself and applied for an
injunction.
A temporary restraining order
was granted by a federal judge
which restrains the officials of the
miners from in any way advising
their membership 011 the situation,
or contributing any of the moneys
of the mine workers to the assist
ance of the men on strike; also
restraining them from discussing,
writing or entering into any kind
of a conversation with their mem
bership on the strike situation.
The government, then proceeded
to further invade the rights of the
miners, not only by restraining the
miners, their officers and members
from furthering the purposes for
which the men contended, but
went to further lengths of de
manding from the court an or
der commanding the officers of the
miners' union to recall and with
draw the strike notification, and
the court complacently complied
and issued the order.
Never in the history of our
country has any such mandatory
order been obtained or even ap
plied for by the government or by
any person, company or corpora
tion. ?
Holds Lever Act Misused.
Both the restraining order and
the injunction, in so far as its pro
hibitory features are concerned,
are predicated upon the Lever act,
a law enacted by Congress for the
purpose of preventing speculation
and profiteering of the food and
fuel supplies of the country. There
never was in the minds of the Con
gress in enacting that law or in
the mind of the President when he
signed it, that the Lever act would
be applied to workers in cases of
strikes or lockouts. The food con
troller, Mr. Hoover, specifically so
stated.
Members of the committee hav
ing the bill i* charge have in
writing declared that it was not in
the minds of the committee, and
the then Attorney General. Mr.
Gregory, gave assurance that the
government would not apply that
law to the workers' efforts to ob
tain improved working conditions.
Every assurance from the highest
authority of our government was
given that the law would not be so
applied.
In the course of President Wil
son's address to the Buffalo con
vention of the American Federa
tion of Labor. November. 1917,
among other things he Baid:
"While we are fighting for free
dom we must see, among other
things, that labor is free, and that
means a number of interesting
things. It means not only that we
must do what we have declared
our purpose to do'?see that the
conditions of lafcor are not ren
dered more onerous by the war?
but also that we shall see to
it that the instrumentalities by
which the conditions of labor are
improved are not blocked or
checked. That we must do."
Calls Action "Autocratic."
The autocratic action of our
government in these proceedings
is of such a nature that it stag
gers the human mind. In a free
country to conceive of a govern
ment applying for and obtaining
a restraining order prohibiting the
officials of a labor organization
from contributing their own money
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for the purpose of procuring food
for women and children that
might be starving is something
that, when known, will shock the
sensibilities of man and will cause
resentment.
Surely the thousands of men who
are lying in France, under the soil,
whose blood was offered for the
freedom of the world. never
dreamed that so shortly afterward
in their own country 450.000 work
ers endeavoring to better their
working conditions, would have
the government decide that they
were not entitled to the assistance
of their fellow men and that their
wives and children should starve,
by order of the eovernmeit.
"it is a well established principle
that the inherent purpose of the
injunction processes, where there
is no other adequate remedy at law,
was for the purpose of protecting
property and property rights only, .
thereby exercising the equity
power of the courts to prevent im- j
mediate and irreparable injury.
It was never intended and there 1
Is no warrant of the law in all. our :
country to use the injunction power
of equity courts to curtail personal
rights or regulate personal rela- I
tions. It was never intended to
take the place of government by
law by substituting personal and i
discretionary government.
The I^ever act provides its own !
penalties for violators of its pro
visions. The injunction issued in
this case has for %s purpose not a
trial by court and a jury, but an
order of the court predicated upon
the assumption that the law might
be violated and by which the de
fendants may be brought before
the court for contempt and without
any trial by jury. ^
Seen as Blow at Freedom.
We declare that the proceedings
in this case are unwarranted, as
they are unparalleled in the his
tory of our country, and we declare
that it is an injustice which not
only the workers but all liberty
loving Americans will repudiate
and demand redress. The citizen
ship of our country cannot afford
to permit the establishment or
maintenance of a principle which
strikes- at the very foundation of
justice and freedom. To restore
the confidence in the institutions
of our country and the respect due
the courts, this injunction should
be withdrawn and the records
cleansed from so outrageous a pro
ceeding.
By all the facts in the case the
miners' strike is justified. We in
dorse it. We are convinced of the
justice of the miners' cause. We
pledge the miners the full -support
of the American Federation of
I>abor and appeal to the workers
and the citizenship of our country
to give like indorsement and aid to
the men engaged in this momen
tous struggle.
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ROME, Friday, November 7.?Capt.
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Federation, who is a candidate for
office in the general elections, has
Jordered steamships of several lines
not to leave until after the elections,
in order to permit the crews to vote.
The elections will be held November
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