Labor Organizers & Organizing Quotes
Judges were commonly granting injunctions against unions that were boycotting companies, which was then against the law. However, no judge had ever given an injunction against a company to stop them from boycotting individual workers who were known union organizers. Taft, who had a distinguished career as a Judge earlier in his career shocked the business world and delighted organized labor. Considered politically, a Republican running for President publicly advocated a new right and protection for labor organizing, when his party was supposed to protect companies against Labor. Taft however, was not an ideologue, but was a very fair man, and to him this particular issue was simple. Veteran politicians thought that he should have ducked the question, as he would offend much of the Republican base, but he was used to that being the number 2 man in Theodore Roosevelt’s Administration.
Ms. Jones seemed to turn up wherever there was a major strike or labor dispute throughout the country. She literally had no home but went from one labor dispute to another. Most people on the management side did not know how to cope with this little old homeless lady who was a passionate labor orator and organizer.
