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‘at nm on aed Pew he % that the Government would lose ‘some #280,000,000 a month in taxes, not taking into account the billions that would be lost by industry and dabor. The fine on derendant Lewis was based on the same principles. The Government was acting in its sovereign capacity, by virtue of express congressional authorization, when it took possession of the coal mines to prevent a national calamity. But taking the mines was not enough. To carry out its functions the Government had to operate the rinnat AW Asie t+ham + 25 Or Hh vi a he a Joa by OMot lit. bo Q Krug-Lewis Agreement by the defendants was a direct obstruction to the exercise of this governmental function, Must those charged with the duty of protecting the Government and the people stand by and see this threat bring national chaos? Surely Government has the authority and the power to defend itself against destruction from witnin-~as it has the duty to defend tue country from destruction from without. When that issue is invelved no one is “rmniized—no person or group is beyond the reach of the arm of the court, No person is above the law--and this is a country i and government of laws. ‘ As was So well said by the late Senator Norris, in referring to wartime labor problems: "No man, representing either management or labor, should resort to strike methods in order to enforce demands in time of deadly national peril. It seems to me that the miners have forgotten the blessings and the rights given them by the anti-injunction law, and have followed false jeaders who care more for their own ambitions than they do for freedom and civilization in the world. ‘Nothing contained in the provisions of the Norris- LaGuardia law, however, made it possible for the striking miners to take the course mappcd in the recent crisis by