Show FEDERATION HOLDS MINE E STRIKE JUST EXECUTIVE COUNCIL CONDEMNS GOVERNMENT INJUNCTION AS INVASION OF RIGHTS Statement Made Public After Long Session Declares Tactics of Government Government Gov Gov- Are So Autocratic As Asto Asto Asto to Stagger Human Mind Washington Holding that the action ac tic- tion of the government In Injunction proceedings against striking bituminous ous coal miners Is so autocratic as asto asto to stagger the human mind the executive executive exec exec- uthe council of or the American 1 Federation Federation Federa tion Uon of Labor declared Sunday In a statement issued after a hour four meeting that the miners miners' walkout was vas justified promised ed for fot the strike the entire support of or organized labor and amI asked aid antI and indorsement for COl it from froni the general public The rhe council began Its session at 2 i o'clock after its members hu had been een hastily summoned together and the statement which formulated its Hs action was carefully revised and rewritten by Samuel Gompers anti and Frank Morrison Morn Morri son SOIl president and acid secretary res respectively ec- ec of the federation The Tue council In iii Its statement nt pr presented presented pre pre- r at length the history of the negotIations negotiations ne ne- ne- ne which led up Ul to an and precipitated Hated the coal strike declaring al- al al almost most in fl the first sentence that officers of the United Mine lIne Workers did ever every everything thing In their power avert to-avert this great Indu Industrial trial struggle It reserved Its bitterest bitterest bitterest bit bit- terest words for comment commont on the governments government's gov go gov- gov action There hele were 2200 delegates l representing pl miners in rS seated in the convention which which called the Ithe strike the statement sal said after r briefly sketching In complaints of worl working conditions In Inthe Inthe inthe the Industry which it Is the miners seek to remedy by striking The instructions of the convention were taken through the the usual committees committees committees commit commit- tees into conference w with th the operators ors and then the statement puts 11 It our go government ent interjected itself an and applied for an Injunction tl The rhe statement characterized the action action action ac ac- ac- ac tion as invasion of tire rights of miner miners min mm- er ers Intended to Starve the miners into submission by off their strike benefits an i an-i demanded the withdrawal of the Injunction secured Satur Saturday a at In Indianapolis to restore confidence ence in the Institutions of our country and respect for courts |