Show 1111 I The Peoples People's Case I exhausted all other efforts at its command the government government govern- govern il HAVING ment resorted in the coal miners' miners case to the only authority left which could decide legally a certain point and having made the the decision decision had the power in normal times to enforce it 5 Government is cr created and nd maintained for the welfare of the people S S The questions before the government were these x j Shall the miners work ork at what they claim are starvation wages w wages Shall the industrial life tife of the nati nation n lie dead and shall the people freeze to death for lack of f fuel el E. E f T After the court decision had been rende rendered ed all three branches p pt the e government legislative executive and judicial were in har- har tm ny for both houses of congress had gone on record by practically ti any unanimous vote to support any action the executive department department department depart- depart ment might take in the great cris crisis s Then the great American Federation of Labor arrayed itself s sympathetically on the side of the miners It failed to recognize trial this particular instance of government by injunction wh which ch is abhorrent to almost all Americans d differed from other cases in that f hat the remedy was was sought not in the interest of any capitalistic class but in the interest of the people generally The plaintiff in inthis this th is case was THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES In shadowy outline b behind hind the whole proceedings and responsible responsible responsible sible to great extent for the ratification by congress in advance of the th suit is the fear that class struggles strikes are threatening American merican institutions of government The The coal miners have many grievances that are just The same people of the United States owe ve it to the miners and to themselves themselves to see that wages and working conditions are put On a plane where a cri crisis i such as the present will nev Bever never r arise again and cause all Union nion labor to mass in opposition to their own govern- govern n pin |