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Show I I I I New National Labor 1 1 Party Indicts U. S. I Jurist. I MARTIN OBJECTS Delegates to Have Pe-I Pe-I tition Signed by 1,900,000. GfilCAGO, Nov. 24. A demand for impar ni. nt of fmi:;e H Ami rs n B, of the United stales district court wai formally voiced today by the now National Labor party in a petition addressed ad-dressed to congres- The jurist's action ac-tion In granting the government a I mandatory injunction ordering cancel 1 -i ' i cm of tbe coal miners' strike call H wai the reason assigned, The action followed presentation o! H p report by Robin M P.ruce, of ( hi cago. chairman of the convent ion'-lesolution ion'-lesolution committee. Only one voice was raised in protest to the resolution. L. L. Martin, nn H i klahoma official ol h L'niw . Mm Worker.-. objecting to be proci-dun H m "a waste of time "Congress has never paid any attn-tion attn-tion to the demands ol labor.' he Bj said "The only way to remedy pree-H pree-H ent conditions i? to chant'' control c! !i ih government by voting the National HI Iabor part into DOwei Nevertheless Martin and other dele H ate? to the ivenl on signed the petition It is planned to ha.- the Inv H pcachment petition signed by l.noo.000 HI members of labor unions before it is presented to centres?. n.t month. The resolution read in part : "Your petitioners represi ni that Hi Judge a. B. Anderson, of the United States district court for the district of Indiana, has violated his oath of office to 'preserve, protect and defend H nstitution of the United Sta: J 'hat he has deliberateh and willfully 1 denied to citizen- of th United State-, their constitutional rights and he has j usurped hi; authority by opposing tbe HI constitution and by th Btatutes ol the 1 United States and the decisions of th' supreme court of the United States; j that he has utilized the power of hi j office to coerce free men into Involun-j Involun-j tary servitude; that he has substituted his autocratic will for the law; that . he has forced 400,000 men to disobey j the order of a court of the United f States or else submit to intolerable I wrong and to the privation of Inalit n able rights rights which ar guai anteed under the constitution of the United States and that thereby he has brought the courts into disrepute arid the law into contempt; that he h?.s compelled every mine worker who H is faithful to his American citizenship 'o risk his individual liberty in order that he may maintain the freedom of labor and preserve for himself and his f fellow citizens that liberty which the H f'nited States government was founded to preserve, and for these reasons we petition that the house of representatives representa-tives impeach Judge A. B Anderson in order that he may be rcmoed from !( ins office and that the congress of HI the Lnited States may maintain unim-Hl unim-Hl paired for the people of the United States the guarantees of liberty pro H vided in the constitution of the Unit ed States. "Your petitioner represent that prompt and stern action by tbe repre sentatives of the people Is necessary to re-establish faith In the inviol.ibii H Uy of constitutional rights Rights of Workers "Step by step government by injunc ticn has encroached upon the rights of the workers, in twenty-five years the cearts have enlar?ed their claims of power from the decision in the brbs case, where the supreme court an-H an-H 'lounce.-i the Ticht of any laborer or H 'n' number of laborers to quit work I was not challenged,' to the order of Judge Anderson commanding that men peaceably refusing to work for rn i unjust wage should return to the work Of niktnfc exorbitant profits for prl ate employers. 11 is time to call a halt upon the oppression of labor i through th" courts. Men born free will not suffer tyranny or deprivation of national lib'iiv in whatever form vrithoul determined resistance. "Labor is told that the avenues of j obtaining justice through peaceful means are open to all American citi-i citi-i zens. Yet labor is constantly threat-lened threat-lened with being compelled to accept i injustice by force of arms. "We are peace loving, lawabiding Americans, We are seeking redress Of grievances through the represents ' .ives 6f Hie people But we solemnly -warn all officers of government that j;he must cease to deny to us and our brothers fundamental rights of citizenship; citizen-ship; that they must cease to Invoke j the power of guns and clubs io keep us from asserting our rights; that the government of the United States mus; be maintained as a government securing secur-ing to all citizens life, liberty and :he pursuit of happiness . . . "We submit that treason against the United States should be defined to In-ciude In-ciude the wilful violation by any sub j ject or official of any constitutional right of a citizen." The convention .'dopted a resolution resolu-tion demanding the immediate lifting i of the blockade against Russia so that 1 food may be seni to the suffering peo-pie peo-pie of that country Another resolution protested against 1 the deportation of Hindus charged with Bedition against India. |