| Show PROMINENT MEN IN If ATTENDANCE Fifth Annual Meeting of Na National National National Federation in New York ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT GOVERNMENT BY INJUNCTION DISCUSSED 0 I SS ED New York Dec 12 With persons in attendance including I Borne Bomo om of the best known men in all walks of life lIte the National Civic Fed Fedi Federation i ration nation began besan its fifth firth annual meeting today In Park Avenue hotel Among those present were Andrew Carnegie Cornelius N Bliss BUss Oscar Straus Nich Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas olas Murray Butler Archbishop Ire Ireland Ireland Ireland land Bishop Potter Da David David David vid R It Francis Henry Phipps Clarence ClarenceH H II Mackay Samuel Gompers John Mitchell the Rev Dr Washington Gladden Clarke Howell How ll lI and James Speyer August Belmont president of the fed federation federation In his opening address urged the appointment of a committee to in investigate investigate investigate the problems growing out of the accumulation of great fortunes This subject will ivill be considered tomor tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow row No subject can bring greater good to this country if It correctly solved said he or greater harm if It for wise w se send end nd Just taxation punitive spoliation and the destruction of ot our boundless 93 spirit of enterprise e through hampering regulations be substituted Government by Injunction Government by injunction was char har characterized by Mr Belmont as another burning subject to be discussed He Ie said he was not sure that President proposition for compulsory investigation in of industrial disturbances is advisable He doubted the wisdom of government interference Int but the great greatest greatest est cst justification for such a policy polley would be In the case of quasi public corpora corporations corporations corporations Mr Belmont also called attention to that portion of President message wherein the president de denounced denounced the effort to prohibit all alt com corn combination combination of capital Organized Org Labor Views The federation then took tool up the gov gow government government by injunction question Carl Spelling general attorney for the American Federation of Labor said to today today today day in labor disputes judges have sent forth decrees which were special legis legislation legislation lation and have paralyzed and ren rendered rendered rendered dered abortive all the efforts on the part of the labor side of that dispute An injunction he said should never be granted except to protect property or property rights It was deplorable said Mr Spelling that men should be advised to commit I crimes but more deplorable if It irresponsible sible men on the bench are to be al allowed lowed to usurp authority above the 1 and ald become unrestrained despots dt Spots take ake one side in every trade dis dish r h f to decide that hundreds al ad thousands of men are about to vio violate yb i late lato the law and send out these special to paralyze and destroy the rights of men Tendency Is Dangerous That is the most dangerous tendency in our government If these vicious and precedents are to be recognized or permitted to go on build buildIng building Ing more on top of these they will soon constitute and erect a rower Dower as des despotic as that which destroyed Rome Ho HI declared that it was seldom strikers strikers ers fors ever resort to actual violence but that they the frequently appoint commit committees committees committees tees to help the police pollee preserve the peace The speaker said the peace bill which is before congress embodies the proper and legitimate demands of or organized organized organized labor Walter alter Drew commissioner of the Na Ka National National Iron Erectors association in reply replying ing to Mr Spelling declared that the lat hit teri tr argument was fallacious In that it went to prove that injunctions would not Issue In any an case while he lie sought to prove provo that they the should issue to protect nothing but purely physical ph property rt and physical lh property rights Samuel McCune Lindsay secretary of oft the t e national child labor said UP tte tt E bill recently intro introduced In congress for a national child la Ia labor labor 1 bor law would cut the heart out of ot the 1 labor evil at a single blow A resolution was adopted providing that the tue presidents of the national association asso lation of manufacturers the American Federa Federation tion of Labor the General Federation of omens Clubs the National Educational the American Economic as m association mf f the National Conference of Charities and Corrections and the Na National Nat t Child Labor committee be Invited to name seven members to act nUra like committee of the National Civic Federa Federation Federation tion ton as a committee to make a thorough atlon of tho the whole subject of child labor llor in the United States |
