The Ottawa free trader., 1888-08-18
INDIANA WORklNGMEN.
Ominous Action of Labor Organizations
sF That ssnta

Ominous Action Of Labor Organizations
of That State.
II the Republicans are to have the
smallest chance of winning this election
they must carry Indiana. II was be-
cause Gen. Benjamin Harrison's friends
urged his ability 70 carry that state that
the convention nominated him. At that
time Gen HArrisans record ON TIE hbr
question had not been submitted 70 sca0-
tiny and his claims were allowst. NUv,
however, his public acts are bang pesesd
In review BY the organizations formed for
the true proterion d American !s6oe
against all the tricks and frauds At mo
nopolists and 0se,r creatures And oDe
Of the most striking Of the subordinste
facts Is that the Central Labor union o
Indianapolis has passed o set Of Hss-
olut!ons denouneing Gen. Harrison
Is the enemy OF American labor,
as proved by his record, Spd
has sent them out throughout the
state and the United States Attention
is called to his action tn relation 70 Chi
nese immigration. In which he resisted
every attempt TO exclude Chinese labor
from the country and to prevent It's oom-
petition with American labor. Wage
earners are hidden by their brethren at In
diana TO observe that after he saw that
the bin would probably pass the senste he
tried to emasculats It by exempting from
exclusion skilled Chinese laborers.' The
cigarmakers who had found Chinese com
petition IN San Francfsco absolutely ruin
Gus TO their industry are particularly keen
In this regard and we have no doubt that
the cigarnakers Of the remainder Of the
country will be Just ss resolute In oppos-
ING Gen. Harrison's candidacy.
But this Is not all. The Indiana ON
tral Labor Union has been investigating
the candidate all around and finds that he
has consistently and steadily opposed al
reduction In the hours OF labor; that
during the great railroad strike Of 1e17
he favored recourse TO ball cartridge and
Gatling gun; that he is the political cre-
stion q John c. New, the open end un-
finching foe Of organized labor, who 10 at
present ct war with the local typograph-
Ical union, and thst, IN word, he u the
candidate Of the monopolists q against
the plain people and the wage earnerp OF
the United States.
While engaged In this interesting Co.
cupation Of assuring the wage corners
that they ought to vote for the Republ-
can candidate, our contemporary and the
stump speakers Of their party will, doubt
less, learn many . lesson, which. II pro-
psrly laid 70 heart, may be Of grest vslse.
Here is the gist Of Q whole page OF afgu,
ment In few lines from The Tmes:
There 10 much less knowledge Of poIti-
cal economy or Of human nature in the
talk Of the Trenton manufacturers than
In the story Of the Irish operative whose
employer told him that the success OF the
Democrats would reduce his wages. mo,
it won't" the untutored but sagacious
workingman answered, for If 1t would
you'd be for TT
This untutored person had got hold Of
a great truth, and he is not alone in pos
session of it. They know that the wage
payers who are against tariff reduction
oppose it not because it will reduce wages,
but Just tho other way. II tariff reduc.
ton tended toward reducing wages, Is
there, in spite of all they have to say
about the workingmen, single one OF
them who would not favor 1t at oncef-
Brooklyn Citizen.