The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-10-03
INDIANA woRKlNeMEN.
onlaoais 4 elton q Labor or,e;a.ni1aati6a,l

Ominons Action OF Labor Organization
of That State.
If the Republicans are to have the
smallest chance of winning this election
they must carry Indiana. 1t was be
cause Gen. BENJAMIN Harrison's friends
urged his ability to carry that state that
the convention nominated linn. AT that
time Gen. Harrisbn's record on the labor
question had not been submitted to scru-
tiny aud his claims were allowed. Now,
however. his public acts arc being passed
IN review by the organizations formed for
the true protection Of American labor
against all the tricks and frauds of mo-.
nopoIists aud their creatures. And one
of the most striking Of the subordinate
facts is that the General Labor union of
Indianapolis has passed set of res
olutions deiiouncing Gen. Harrison
Gs the enemy of American labor,
as proved by his record and
has sent them out throughout the
state and the United States. Attention
Is called to his notion IN relation to Chi.
nese immigration, in which he resisted
every attempt to exclude Chinese labor
from the country and to prevent its COM
petition with American labor. Wage
earners are hidden by their brethren of In
diana to observe that after he saw that
the bill would probably pass the senate he
tried to emascullte it by exempting from
cigarmakers who had found Chinese COM
petition in San Francisco absolutely ruin
ois to their Industry are particularly keen
in this regard. and we have no doubt that
the cigarmal5crs of tho remainder of the
country will be just as resolute in oppos-
ing Gen. Hcrfson's candidacy.
But this is not all. The Indiana Cen
tral Labor Union has been investigating
the candidate all around and finds that no
has consistently and steadily opposed all
reduction in tho hours of labor; that
during tie great railroad strike of 1877
he favored recourse to ball cartridge and
Gatling gun; that hc is the political Gre
alton of John O. New, the open and un-
finching foe of organized labor, who is at
present at war with the local typograph-
ical union, and that, III word, he is the
candidate OF the nonopolists as against
the plain people and the wage earners Of
the United States.
While engaged in this interesting oc-
cupation of assuring the wage earners
that they ought to vote for the Republi-
can candidate, our contemporary and the
stump speakers of their party will, doubt
less, learn many lesson, which, If pro-
perly laid to heart, may be of great value.
Hero i3 tho giSt of whole page of argu-
rnent i'll few lines from Tho Times:
There is much less knowledge of pol:ti-
cal ccoIc-i5- cr cf human nature in the
talk of tho Trenton manufacturers than
in tho story of the Irish operative whose
employer told him that the success of tho
Democrats would reduce lis wages. mo,
it won t, tho untutored but sagacious
workingman answered, for if it would
you'd DO for it,
This untutored person had got hold of
great truth, and he Is not alone III pos
session of it. They know that tho wage
payers WHO arc against tariff reduction
oppose it not because it will reduce wages,
but iust tho other way. If tariff reduc-
tion tended toward reducing wages, is
there, III spite of all they have to say
them who would not favor it at ouce?-
Brooklyn Citizen.