Show LABOR CIRCLES courts are curtailing privileges THE CASE AT CLEVELAND english unions been considering it the forestry NEW tilly 2 special A spec ial dispatch london says great interest has been aroused among the executive officers of the great english labor organization by a decision rendered at cleveland by judge sage of the united states circuit court granting to an extensive corporation an tion restraining its ex amplo cs who had been locked out as the result of a labor difficulty from interfering with the corporation po ration or with the men engaged to take the places of the locked out em aloyes some B x weeks ago when the cleveland court rendered its decision a b rief report of the matter which was cabled to this country attracted the attention of the labor leaders from the fact that the ground taken and conclusions clu arrived at were remarkably in accord with recent es of english courts under similar condi at the instance of the parliamentary committee ef the trade union congress a full copy of the report in the cleveland case was written for and since its arrival here it has been exhaustively studied by senta tives of some of the biggest trade unions As a result the conclusion has been reached that the highest courts both of the old country and the new world are leading the way in an effort to exorcise exor cisa thi power of the law toward curtailing of the methods hitherto regarded as legitimate by trade unions in carrying out their plans and arrangements it is a significant fact that twice within the present year one of the highest judges of this country sitting on the fourt of queens bench and whose opinions are rarely reversed on appeal has taken strong ground against picketing or molestation of nonunion men by strikers in almost the identical language used later by judge sage and has gone so far as to declare that the means and methods adopted by striking leaders were fast reaching a point where trade organization would become a menace to a free country it is noteworthy that according to the records received here judge sage quoted approvingly the dictum of the english judge in question that or labor must not interfere with the rights of employers to manage their own business in their own way the trade union leaders admit that if the highest judicial authorities in those countries where organized labor is the strongest are to declare picketing and boycotting and interference with nonunion men a crime then the chief weapon and support of organized labor will be d strayed and the organizations will weaken from natural inability to enforce their own decrees so important is the question regarded that it is to ba made a special order at the forthcoming trado union congress which is to ba attended by fraternal delegates from the united states and several european countries the independent labor party also has decided to hold a conference next month to consider tho subject noted under the caption the A of the judiciary toward organized labor with special reference to recent decisions in england and the united states |