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HOT SPRINGS POST
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A CURIOUS DECISION
One of the most extraordinary decisions affecting labor
organizations has been lately rendered by a judge in Mas
sachusetts. In a city in that state a local of the Interna
tional Association of Machanists declared a strike against
an extensive employer. He hired strikebreakers and guards
from a detective agency costing in the neighborhood of $4,
000, At the conclusion of the strike he sued the union for
this money and the decision we have referred to ordered
the payment of this sum by the machinists’ organization.
This decision, which by the way, is practically ident
ical with the famous Taff Vale decision in England, and to
which the court referred, is one of those who argue fof
equality before the law will have considerable difficulty sus
taining.
In cases where employes have sued for damages for in
juries received, it frequently has happened that the decid
ing judges have dismissed the cases for the reason that the
employe knew of the defective machinery which caused the
accident; that he was not compelled to assume the risk of
working under such conditions and accordingly was guilty
of contributory negligence in taking upon himself such a
Tisk, and the suit for damages has been dismissed.
Pursuing the logical assumption of such a defense, it
’would naturally appear that all employes have a right, ig
noring as legal theoreticians do, economic compulsion, to
work when, where and how they like. Yet this decision,
which a judge in the courts of the commonwealth of Mas
sachusetts has just rendered, takes away the right to quit
work from dissatisfied employes, for what else does it mean
when they are held responsible to the law for the costs in
curaed by the employer as a consequence of that strike.
It would be tedious to follow the inconsistencies of re
cent labor decisions throughout the land. It is a fact may
be noted by the most superficial reader of even the capital
ist papers that here and there, day after day, are rendered
decisions in courts of justice which are, to all intents and
purposes, negations, of one another, and are only consistent
in this remarkable respect, that they are uniformly rendered
against labor. From the supreme court down, which legal
izes the blacklist today and declares illegal the boycott to
morrow, one traverses a record of astonishing contrary de
cisions which can only be reconciled with the idea of tolera
tion on the consideration of their being hostile to labor.
It would be the vainest thing in the world to imagine
that it is satisfactory to revile such decisions and not to con
sider why this state of affairs exists.
The judiciary today is recruited from a class which, if
not always an exploiting class, has interests generally in
concord with it. Their views, and they may be entirely
honest and sincere, are the views of that class. Their con
sideration of the laws is determined by their environment
and no change can be effected in the general social environ
ment of the judges or their places filled by jurists selected
from the workers, which, we readily grant, seems a state of
affairs extremely distant, but for all that devoutly to be
wished.—Nome Indus. Worker.
There is in the state prison at Trenton, N. J., a prisoner who
was to have been electrocuted on March 15 for murder. His death
lias been deferred by a stay of proceedings. On the prison roll his
name appears as Adolph Bertchey. Under that name he is prac
tically unknown.
The convict is really the most dangerous criminal known to
the police of New York. When he was arrested in 1898, on the
charge of burglary, the police discovered he had been pursuing
that avocation for more than ten years, unsuspected and unmo
lested. He had mastered the science of burglary. He played a
lone hand always. As William E. Travis he was a commercial
traveler, quiet and dignified.
Travis served nine years in Connecticut and nine months in
New York, Then he disappeared. On December 29 there came
from Lakewood, N, J., the story of a burglar who had tried to
enter the Manhattan hotel. He was at the top of a ladder- when
discovered, He ran a rpile through the town, but wes finally corn
ered by a bartender named Prank Jankowski. Travis deliberately
shot- him down. Then the crowd closed, and Travis was caught.
Jankowski died, and Travis, who had given his name as Adolph
Bertchey, was tried and convicted on February 4 of murder in the
first degree, and sentenced to be electrocuted on March 15. The
New York police who went down to look him over discovered their
old friend, William E. Travis.
It was a chance remark made by that notorious burglar, “Bigj
Bill” Mason, to then Capt. McClusky which first drewT attention to j
Travis. Mason said one day:
“I owe all my misfortunes to associations with other crooks, j
Why, I know a man who is never seen with a crook, and who has i
been burgling these ten years, and the police have never seen him.”
McClusky was piqued by this remark. He had all of “Big Bill”
Mason’s effects brought before him. He found quite a number of
addresses. Then he summoned Detectives Kerr and Fogarty and
said:
“Somewhere among these names is a man who has been a
crook for ten years. Run all of them down, and bring me the
•right man.”
Kerr and Fogarty unearthed Travis.
Travis, ready, to kill if cornered, always carried two revolvers !
hung about his neck on a silken cord, and resting in two specially •
made pockets on the inside of his coat. He could thus reach them
quickly and without arousing suspicion.
Travis studied his house before entering. First, well dressed,
he studied it by daylight. Then for two or three nights he would
study the habits of the inmates of the house. He would note when
aj^iJ where lights appeared; what time the lights were extin
guished; when the inmates had apparently retired.
lie carried no tools except a piece of candle and a three-inch
chisel. Tools he discarded as cumbersome, unnecessary and likely
to arouse suspicion.
He took from houses he robbed only solid silver and gold.
This he melted down and disposed of in ingots. No pawnbroker
could point his finger at Travis.
Travis’s chest and arm developments are almost abnormal. No
prisoner captured by the police has measured such enormous bi
ceps and chest. Here is an instance of his strength:
Travis once climbed to the top of a balcony on a bouse in East
Seventy-first street, N«-.w York. He was discovered, and fell.
When he recovered his senses he was in a barred room in the Pres
byterian hospital. Next morning he was gone. The iron bars had
been bent like tin pipes. He had sVip down the water leader.
All of Travis’s work was done in the suburbs. And withal,
this burglar appeared the gentleman. He dressed, acted and lived
the part. His voice was low, his manner suave. He had a pas
sion, art. In the home where he kept his aged mother and a sis'
ter in luxury, the walls were almost covered with paintings. In
Brooklyn he lived quietly with a woman who appeared to be his
wife. Travis is believed to have killed a policeman in Hartford.
This he denies.
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