Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-03-03 | Page 4 | Union Protests Loss of Civil Liberties

Union Protests Loss Of Civil Liberties America i Is it losing too many liberties and nd no not knowing it At no time S says soya the annual report re re- port of the American Civil Lib Liberties union has there been beel such auch widespread widespread wide wide- spread violation of th the wo worker rights by Injunctions troop troops private privat police pollee deputy sheriff labor Jabor spies and vigilances More re than a 15 3 have havo been killed injured and hun hundreds arrested arrested arrested ar ar- ar- ar rested since ince last July Some 40 Injunctions injunctions In in- junctions junction have been Issued against labor l leaders The national labor board has lacked the will or the pow power r to overcome the defiance nce ot of employers Only where labor has been well organized have its Ju legal rights been respected Last year 24 negroes negro and i four whites were killed by mobs mob Call CaUl forma fornin whose governor k keeps cps Mooney and Billings Jn tn Jail lall and gloated over overa a double heads heds the union unions blacklist blackl t Alabama Maryland's c castern east cast ut- ut ern the the mino and factory r regions gions' gions of at Pennsylvania and find Illinois are arc described as freedoms freedom's burial grounds The rhe union agrees that tho leadership has isa been a liberalizing leaven leavon Its It Immigration and Indian bureaus its Us state department and some other agencies dI display lay a new spirit But where property Jn Interests to I are directly affected Its Us Influence has been least effective One won won- dors ders what would havo hav happened d had hild hada hilda a reactionary government been in JIt charge 0 of oZ N recon w York ork K World