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...three day program there are included several meetings open to the public. On Tuesday afternoon there will be a discussion of "The Government of Metropolitan Areas," at which papers will be read by Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, Mayor Clayton C. Townes of Cleveland, Ex-mayor Andrew J. Peters, and C. A. Dykstra, secretary of the Los Angeles City Club...
...claim of La Follette that the decisions of the Supreme Court are dictated by narrow class interest to the prejudice of the poorer economic groups is effectively confuted by Monday's decision on the constitutionality of the sections of the Clayton Act dealing with the trial of strikers held for contempt of court in violating injunctions...
Perhaps more important to the worker is the recognition of a striker as an employee. Under the former interpretation of common law, a man abandoned all claims to that status upon leaving his employment. Under the Clayton Act thus upheld, Justice Sutherland declares that it is not necessary for the old status of employer and employee to exist at the time the alleged contempt was committed. This meaning of the law gives to the worker the lien on his job which the feels when the leaves work with the intention of returning to it under more favorable conditions. It gives...
...member of Congress, he had written several sections of the Clayton Anti-Trust...
...Gompers replied to Mr. Wilson after the Council had endorsed Messrs. LaFollette and Wheeler, and had opposed both Republican and Democratic tickets and platforms. He did not reply to Mr. Wilson's first point. Of the second (in regard to the Clayton Act) he wrote: "We are likewise fully informed as to all who rendered valuable services in that legislation. We must dissent from the conclusions related by you." In reply to the third point, he said: "It was the machinery of the movement, and not the Supreme Court and Mr. Davis, which prevented the strike...