| Show 11 JJ l PICKETING N NI I I m f i fw 1 WI a In the court at nt Han Ban Fran Tran I i tl stem on Saturday an nn Important deci j 4 1 w V j 1 plop Ion wn In a n 1 case Involving 1 r I the tho legality of ot picketing and boy boyt t cot b by J labor unions A strike had 1 occurred n a livery stable the tit Ii 1 union men tact being out niter after t f 1 I I fashion ra the tho grievance being I I I j 1 H tho thin refusal of ot the proprietor at nt the tM r I t In y 4 demand of ot a p 1 walking delegate to dis discharge dl l rt j I charge a II nonunion man and employ aI a 11 aV oJ I jc V f J t union man In n his hili place The tables stables Ie were picketed and boycotted and ani an en Injunction In was then thon applied for tor to In pre fire prevent prevent vent tho the union from free Interfering with the tho plaintiffs business Tho The case was wal fully tully argued 11 anti and the tho result was that Hint a 1 permanent Injunction was granted The fhe principle underlying thin this decision lon Is III evident and Impregnable As 11 the tho court declared The Tho Constitution alike protects natural freedom and In Inu u freedom If It tho the right or of property prop fOp property erty Is III Inalienable the tho right to labor U Is Inviolable rho The right to labor Is a II aright aright right of ot property and the duty to pro tact It Is the tho highest omco of ot our laws The Tha court showed showe that while legislatures legislatures ures may otter niter and regulate remedies and procedure they cannot destroy a IL substantial remedy nor defeat the en cn enforcement of or constitutional right No man or combination of or men menis In is permitted by the Constitution to harass or Injure another In ht the pursuit of oC his hili lawful business bu The o are aro principles and they cannot be legislated away not ho bo subverted Bu by hy any organization however numerous or powerful The fhe right to 10 strike Is not denied but hut thorn Is no tight light In law late or In reason to compel others to strike or to prevent people from trot working In ht the place of strikers Tho rho picketing practice re ro resorted sorted to by some of ot the unions Is l un no unlawful lawful and unbearable It U will wilt have havo to tobe tobe be he suppressed If It persisted In Injune lions lIon by h the tho courts will be he followed by executive action until the liberty of ot labor U is established What Is I called government by hy Injunction does do s not lit fit the case caso of such Injunctions an nil that Is Issued sued by the California court Tho flo abuse of that power would be he wrong like Ito tho ho of any other power Rut Hut the evil that It meets Is too great to ho bo Ignored and tho the full power of the tho law must bo be exercised to 10 prevent the tha wrongs of ot picketing and boycotting I Our Washington correspondent quotes Daniel Davenport the executive agent of tho the American as ns association who gave the following slate ment recently In explanation of ot tho the movement to suppress tho the evil which crops out al nt most mOlt of tho the troubles trouble fo fomented fOe i mooted by the tho unions union Hu lIe said I The Tho arrest of ot President George F P Gulden of ot tho the Teamsters union who I attempted to prevent a 1 teamster from delivering Roods goods consigned to his hili care Is III a 1 fair fall but hut striking sample of ot the trouble which employers have havo with will strikers picketing Chicago has al nl been beon noted for tor tho the Intimidation ot of Independent workmen attempting to take taka the tho place glare of strikers In the theca case caso ca o of tho the Kellogg com corn company pan pany Inny In which the Antl asso association elation as directly interested the tho at nt attempts tempts o ot of the to prevent non nonunion nonunIon nonunion union men from supplying their places were so desperate and anI sUch lIuch extreme measures were used that the tho CIlA has hall become ono of ot record In labor circles During this strike notwithstanding the th Injunction Issued by Judge Holdom assaults n were committed upon tho this of ot the Pro firm II rill both bothman mon men and girl and no less leas than throe hundred specific cases cares of Intimidation wore were recorded Slugging committees were detailed to follow the tha non nonunion unton let to 10 their hones homes nod administered brutal beatings bea After the strike had beon beun In progress more moio than six weeks tho the Teamsters union talon of ot which Mr golden Goldon Is l now president In Involved Involved From 60 to police pollee officers svere detailed to guard tho the wagons of or ortho tho the company which wore surrounded by mobs of or battling n 11 cursing men Wo Woo Women men nod and boys and which passed through blockaded streets Directs Shots were tired fired bricks brick and every conceivable mis mill site Riles thrown and It became dangerous da to walk In tho the streets adjacent to the lle caravan As All a result of ot these theRo troubles many of the tho union pickets picket were arrested and nod lined In the tho th courts court tort suits stilts aggregating gating wore were entered against the and Ind members of tho the union In Involved and twelve union and pickets were lined fined and committed to jail for tor violation of ot the tha Injunction Later Alexander C Allen Mien the tho Chicago ago attorney for the Antl Boycott tine lion wile was badly beaten benten because of trou troubles blei bles growing out of tho the injunction suits anti a u number of at indictments were se as secured cured against his bin assailants and more will doubtless follow |
