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?W>' (By international labor News Serrice.) -New York City, Aug. 7.—The Iron Leprae has lost - the Hirsfe round ion $gW against the striking iron workers of New York. Supreme Court Justice Lydon has refused to enjoin the workers from' ^picketing, declaring that ‘‘Picketing is lawful when lawful ly conducted” and stating that the evidence submitted by the anti union employers in support of their charge of personal violence by the union’s pickets is “not only very weak hut is substantially dis posed of” i>y affidavits submitted by the union. Justice Lydon, in an extended much doubt. aboutthe r^l&.e£ .fjjjg, employers ’’to ; a|i S warrant giantfcig"' a restraining order at . this time. To issue: art injunction pending triad wmrfd be tantamount, :htfsaid, *fo d^mriin nation in advance of trial of the imps i^e&rgd. ' — rTf *h nn i i> 4>l« /\ *n -■-> ■ - worth of contracts in New York which they were prevented from completing or starting because of a strike called against thim May 1. They sued for $5,000,000 dam ages and asked that the union be rsetrained from picketing or in terfering . with strike-breakers they imported from other cities. Union Files Cbvhter Claim Asking Damages. As already told by International Labor News Service, the union in &mmrm mm alleging a cottawracy by e<H|spjaey by the four teen firms, backed by the United States ^JSteei Corporation, Bethlehem Steel Corporation and al^r bag ^teel ^ajpapames ha &&■ union. ^ %se aBegiJfcs, aatd Samuel JBn termyer, counsel for the union, charged that in return for refus ing to employ union labor the steel mills granted-the members of the Iron League a differential rate in the purchase of steel to be- used in New York City and vicinity. Though “Pittsburgh Plus,” the practice just forbidden by the Federal Trade Commission, was not mentioned, it is understood that the steel companies forced employers friendly to union labor to pay “Pittsburgh Plus” charges on steel, while the anti-union e-m Mea Arc Within Their Rifles. After declaring, tliat picketing is lawEat. Justiee J&ftonjgges pn to say of rate chains of violence made by the employers: H do -in the their, rights as such. The members of th© defendants* union have a perfect right to jrefose to work with non-unjpn men, and non union men, on the other “hand, have the right to work when and where they please. “It is true that it has been held by the courts in certain . cases where violence has been shown to have occurred, that even when the moving affidavits upon an applica tion for an injunction are substan tially denied by a defendant, that nevertheless the court will grant an injunction pendente lite, but in During August You Gan Buy a No. 25 Hotstrearn GAS WATER HEATER . forOnly y.4*. If you purchase a^New Cabinet Gas Range at our regular prices. No home is complete without an abundant supply of HOT WATER—and GAS uir atth uat X\r \ tcd —J BEST.' 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Justice Lydon hefyMhat it be that the union’s contention the employers do not come Sto court 'with clean hands may b< tained won trial.' -Hie que as to whether the employers Ire y&mggF ehg N ed jn a conspiracy to destroy th< or ganization is clearly raised bj he papers in the case and if e: fc tb lished would be decisive of he fact that the employers are : ot entitled to come into equity cp rt for relief, the justice adds. \ 1 ■ * OLANDER SEES HELP FOR WEST W FINDING iS Chicago, 111., Aug. 7.—“ decision jof the Federal Ti Commission against the Unit States Steel Corporation in ‘Pittsburgh Plus’ case will pro\ great stimulujs to manufactui activities, mining and buil< especially, in the Middle {providing the courts do not in] vene in favor of the Steel Tru! said Victor A. dander, secret^f' treasurer of the Illinois\ StlSe Federation of Labor. “The corporate privileges w( out which . the Steel Corporat|< would probably collapse of its op weighty- continued Mr. 01 am' “were largely created by mainly exist under the shelter judicial decisions. The partialis of the corporation officials toward the extension of certain copft powers as exemplified by Gary§s statement a few years ago whejn he advised the American Bar As sociation that ’the equity court should be given certain enlarged powers unrestricted by legislative enactment may be reciprocated in the judiciary by a willingness ;tp Uphold and extend corporate pow ers which the Steel Trust consid ers essential.” ?j; SENSE FROM CONGRESS “Legislation and government §, can not work miracles. Many | things that are seriously needed \ are beyond the reach of gov«j \. ernment, land to demand themi « of the government is to worh f perversion.”-Representative | Bill G. JLoWrey, of Afiuitsippij | ditiods. j •Vfp (of Jbe *W»r »* tfc# framer* titutton) knew, near ■« in order lo 'fw’pgfpss wiR! .sweatee, -Add' civiBhaiSon. If *uck » *•! science and civilisation sj^nd- j ing still, we could leave our | Constitution as || is, and we | would continue to exist forever \ as we do today. But that is ■ impossible/' — Representative ! William B. Oliver, of Alabama, ] in an address on the Federal ? Constitution. 1 “They (the farmers) are the ; victims of circumstances large* ly, resulting from our superfi* cial and chaotic economic sys tem, where the' unorganized and unprotected farming class becomes the prey of specula* tors, money sharks, land goug ers> profiteers, and the victims of vicious and iscrimsaatory legislation.” —• -Representative George $. Schneider, of Wiscon #?**»* Since .the enactnmnt $£ jfactoj ^awa lnJipenand th© adoption country of the tidings of t) atonal Labor Conferem e has been a gradual tendern toward simmer working day 3a££iie3* industries. The avert forking hours range from a nu mum of 15 to a minimum of hours per day, including rec( time. The average for all : es of mn^^ang the country is about 1# This compares y«ry with aformer averageIf to 14 |^ours, hut It is evident $hj$fc the cop.ntry is still very fatsfrom the universal adoption of the eight . hour day.
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