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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt:...what they sought. This judicial non-partisan who addressed the National Association of Manufacturers indicted labor organizations because they contributed funds to secure a fair trial for fellow workers. Would this judicial advocate recommend that organized labor condemn without fair trial members accused of crimes? Does not the law in theory at least hold every man innocent before proven guilty? He accuses the representatives of organized labor of a manifest desire to secure in express statutory declarations protection from perversions and misinterpretations of antitrust laws never intended to apply to wage-earners. He condemns wage-earners because they wish the law to distinguish clearly the inherent difference between hats and human beings who make hats; between the miners and the coal they mine; between carpenters and their planes; between human power to create and the things which are created. It does not constitute a privileged class to recognize fundamental differences between human beings and things to which trust legislation applies. It is not an immunity constituting a special privilege to fail to apply compulsory education laws to donkeys. And finally this judicial non-partisan, the originator of the injunction warfare against labor, offers this advice: "What is needed to produce a sobering effect upon the truculent labor leaders intoxicated with their sense of political power is political courage on the part of those who seek to represent the people in legislative and executive office, and a full and fair discussion of such legislation as these labor unions press upon Congress and the legislatures, with bold and earnest opposition, when in such legislation, unjust immunity is sought and undue privilege is to be created." Does a twinge...