distinctly and affirmatively expressed in the constitution,
the right of traffic in it, like an ordinary article of
merchandise and property was guaranteed to the citizens of
the United States and the Governroent in express tepus has
pledged to protect it in all future times if the slave
escapes from the owner."
Contrast that, if you will, with the opinion of
the same Supreme Court of the United States, 80 yeas lateir
in the cape of National abor Relations Board versus Jones
& l,aughlin in which the Supreme Court held constitutional the
National abor Relations Act and in which Chief Justice
Charles Evans Hughes said that a single employee was helpless
in dealing with an employer, that he was dependent ordinarily
on the daily wage for the maintenance of himself and his
family, that if the employer refused to pay him the wages
that he thought fair, he was nevertheless unable to leave
the employer and resist, arbitrary and unfair treatment
and by that pronouncement the Supreme Court of the United
States held that the Federal Government was within Consti-
tutional prerogatives to enact a law regulating the
relationship between employers and employees and giving