Show LABOR STARTS FIGHT ON TAFT Samuel Gompers Goes After the Heir Apparent in Five Page Editorial l DECISIONS WHILE A JUDGE SHOWS HOWS up UTTERANCES ON IN INJUNCTIONS INJUNCTIONS INJUNCTIONS JUNCTIONS Special to Tho The Herald Washington D C Sept 29 Organized labor has formally opened Its warfare on Secretary Tart Taft This was made clear to today today today day when the official organ of the Ameri Amen American can Federation of ot Labor came out with a ahot ahot hot editorial of ot five pages prepared by President Samuel Gompers and headed Taft Tart the tho Injunction Standard Bearer President Gompers treats of ot Tafts de derision decision decision while on the thu bench In n Ohio and of his utterances bearing on injunction mat matt matti t ti rs while on his recent western trip He declares Secretary Tafts contention with reference to what he terms the boy boycott boycott boycott cott would if It carried to its logical re result result result sult lead to the tho dispersion and forcible breaking up by court orders of ot every assemblage as assemblage assemblage of ot workingmen however innocent inno innocent Innocent cent or lawful their purpose and to the nullification of or all their agreements Mr Gompers says further The fact tact of ot the matter is that Secre Secretary Secretary Secretary tary Taft as aa a presidential aspirant is He may have ruffled ruffied a feather teather here and anel there in the plumes Illumes of capitalistic capital capitalistic capitalIstic power His parting words are to con console console sole corporate influence and the money power for any uneasiness as to his position position position tion Ho substantially assures them that if Ie they will wiil but give him their support ho will hand band over to the tender mercies of the worst element of the capitalistic class cbs the workingmen of the United States t and hand and foot shackled by injustices injustices tices for which he lie will stand One of the reasons which he gave for tor advising the people of Oklahoma to re Jitt jt the constitution was that In his opinion opinIon opinion ion it contained a bad and dangerous limitation upon the power of the courts ti t grant and enforce writs of Injunction The Injunction he declared was one cf of the tho most valuable beneficent and es essential essential instruments of law and justice It was een even more necessary for the protection protection protection tion of the poor than the rich and to limit it In any way W would put more power i h a i the hands of rich criminals and E Ens irs The provision to which he so seriously did not limit the power to issue Injunctions It only limited the power of judges to punish alleged violators of In Injunctions injunctions injunctions junctions to send them to prison for the alleged contempt of court without trial by b jUry Jun It Is la to the Intervention of a jury between n the injunction and the sen sentence sentence tence for contempt that the secretary t ok exception It does not appear that ho he was In a humorous mood He seemed wholly In earnest as he argued that It Is essential to the protection of the tho poor man that judges should have the power to find men guilty of contempt and give them prison sentences without referring the fact of the case to a jury of ot the tho defendants peers It shows that he has not changed his position since his campaign In Congress Congressman man district last year Now as then he ignores all the fundamental and vital objections to the abuse of the injunction and the consequent abolition of trial by Jury in labor cases He still seeks to evade the issue to find sophistical cal reasons for tor upholding a monstrous abuse He was one ona of the tho early Injunction injunction injunction tion Judges and as a statesman and poll he ha is evidently determined to de defend defend defend fend his record |