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Show ANTITRUST BILLS BEI DISCUSSED Doubtful if the Measures Will Escape Overhauling by Committee. GIVE LABOR TOO MUCH Senators Would Restrict the Use of Boycott, Blacklist : and Picketing. i ! By International News Service, j WASHINGTON, June IS. The sen- j ate committee on judiciary, in charge ! of the Clayton trust bill, has reached ! tbe provisions relative to organized j labor and their proposed exemption j from the operations of the antitrust j laws. The clause, which it is claimed ; would legalize the boycott and black- ; list and practically give full license to i labor to do tilings now prohibited by law, was under discussion this after- ; noon. The committee was unable to ! reach any conclusions "even tentatively, i but the general feeling is that the scope f of the exemption in the house bill will j be materially modified. ; The house bill provides that no re- ! straining order or injunction shall pro-, ! hibit any person "from attending at or near a house or any place where a j person works or resides or carries on ' business or happens to be for the pur-: pose of peacefully obtaining or com-, j municating information or of peace- ! fully persuading any person to work or ! to abstain from working; or from ceas- i ing to patronize or to employ any party to such dispute or from recommending, j advising or persuading others by peace- ! ful means so to do.'' Provision Too Strong. This provision some members of the j committee believe would pave the way to practices that ought not to be ; countenanced. There is a strong de-,; de-,; maud in the committee that the door i should be closed against too free a use i of the boycott, blacklist and picketing. The general provisions of the house bill that no restraining order or injunction in-junction in labor disputes shall be issued is-sued unless necessary to prevent irrep-; irrep-; arable injury and t'or which there is not adequate remedy at law were agreed to. This clause provides that ! the alleged property rights must be de-i ( scribed with particularity in the ap-j ap-j plication and sworn to. The committee j also has agreed to the clause providing that no such order or injunction shall prohibit- any person from terminating his employment, or from recommending, advising or persuading others by peaceful peace-ful means to do so. Every agreement thus far reached by the committee is purely tentative, for at no session has there been a quorum present. Whatever is done is yet to be approved bv the full Democratic, membership mem-bership and by the full committee. Not Yet Launched. Headway is being made slowly in the judiciary committee. It is probable that the trust programme will not be fairly launched in the senate before j .lu!v 1. The Indian appropriation bill i will be completed possibly tomorrow, 1 certainlv by Saturday. Senator Simmons, Sim-mons, acting chairman of the committee on co'iinierce, has given notice that he will call up the rivers and harbors ap-: ap-: 'prnpriation bill Monday. Senator Burton and others who believe be-lieve as he dees about these appropriations appropria-tions will make an organized fight against the bill on the ground that it is unscientifically prepared and is in- i i.-iji i a i iJui i ritt i i cj raiuer iuhii to provide adequately or properly t'or the public improvement of rivers and harbors. The entire week, it is expected, will be devoted to this bill, and that of itppif will postpone consideration of the Newlands federal trade commission bill until the first week in July. |