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HEARINGS

BEFORE A

SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

UNITED STATES SENATE

SIXTY-SECOND CONGRESS

THIRD SESSION

ON

659

572

H. R. 23635

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT TO CODIFY,
REVISE, AND AMEND THE LAWS RELATING TO THE
JUDICIARY," APPROVED MARCH 3, 1911

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1913

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SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY,

UNITED STATES SENATE,
Washington, D. C.

The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 o'clock a. m. Present: Senators Root (chairman), Nelson, and Sutherland. Senator RooT. We shall be very glad to hear what you have to say, Mr. Gompers.

STATEMENT OF SAMUEL GOMPERS, PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR.

Mr. GOMPERS. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, during the earlier hearings before the subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate on this bill, the Clayton bill, I took occasion to say that the purpose of the proponents of the bill was not to consume any of the time, or to consume as little of the time of the committee as possible, but to rely upon the hearings had before the Judiciary Committee of the House, which hearings were already in print. Those who opposed the bill came before the committee, and I think I am justified in saying that of the many hours of the several days taken by them less than one-twentieth of the time was devoted to the consideration of the bill. But they seemed just to clutch at the heavens and at the depths of the nether regions in order to throw odium upon the men who are before Congress asking for this legislation, and they brought in matters as extraneous and foreign to the purpose of this bill as the two poles are distant from each other.

The record of the committee is replete with accusations, insinuations, and irrelevant foreign matter, all intended to poison the minds of Congress; and I may say, with all due respect to the Members of Congress, what is of far greater importance to us, it was intended to poison the minds of the people against our work and our motives and the purposes which we sought to further by the passage of this bill. Because of that course pursued by these men, acting as attorneys for their clients, though without a word of reflection upon them because they are lawyers and have the retainers of their clients, I think it counts for something that these men appear purely as attorneys for their clients as against those who are appearing in furtherance of a great right, a great principle.

Since the adjournment of your committee last spring several things have transpired which require some recounting. We have gone

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