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Show . Economic Pressure of Industrial Conflict Not Unlike War Blockade Ey JUDGE W. L. HUGGINS, Kansas Industrial Court. The economic pressure of industrial conflict is not unlike the eco- nomic presoiire of the blockade in international warfare. It is the duty of the government to protect the life, the liberty, the health and the' peace of the people. It makes no difference by whom the public ia threatened, whether by organized labor, by organized capital, by organized insurrection or by a foreign enemy. All over this land today the domestic tranquility is being impaired, justice is failing, the general welfare is threatensd, the liberty of the individual is denied, and there is no common defense because there is no law by which their conditions can be controlled. If prompt; vigorous action be not taken in the near future, the people of America may suffer infinitely more than they suffered in the World war. I am confident that power lies with congress to provide for the common com-mon defense against such conditions as now exist, as adequately aa against invasion from a foreign foe. I believe that congress should and will in near future enact a law similar in import to the Kansas industrial act, that a tribunal of a high judiciary nature will ba established and be given jurisdiction over industrial indus-trial controversies in interstate and foreign commerce and in the production pro-duction of fuel. This, it seems to me, would be clearly within the commerce com-merce clause of the Constitution. ' |