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Show MR Ai I THE COURTS I Head of Miners Points to Supreme Court De- " H cision as a Menace H Butte, July 19. President Moyer's H annual report to the Western Federa- jH tion of Minors read today was a H comparative review of the state mln- H lug locals throughout the west, H coupled with recommendations on is- M sues now agitating the convention. M President Mover urged partlclpa- M tlon in poltcs as a body, favored the H Tflnnll rf ltiivofl nnrl ntincr 4Vln cit 1 preme court decisions in the Tabacco H and Standard Oil cases, declared that H it is only a question of time when the IH courts will bring labor unions under IH the Sherman anti-trust act, and that. M the labor movement's legal status M then will hang on a judge's opinion H whether they are reasonabfe or not. H He thought tho recall would enable M labor to weed from the bench jurists H I known to be opposed to the union H movement. H President Moyer recommended con- H sideration of a plan of a gigantic fund H fund which might control tho oporat- H ing field. He declares that if tho H federation could devote to tbe intelli- H gent purchase of corporations, by fl whom the miners aro employed, tho H same sums now devoted to strlko fl funds, the locals soon would own a H large enough percentage of these cor- H poratlons to go Into the courts and H protect their rights. He leaves tho H details of this plan to tho convention. H Because of he expense of annual H sessions, 'Mr. Moyer recommends that H the conventions be made biennial. H oo H |