The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-30
BURNS ROASTED.
HIS ENGLISH SANDERS THROWN
IN HIS FACE.
London's Filthy SIums-Resentment
Among Labor Men Against a For
eigner Insulting America-A Few

Some local labor leaders don't like
John Burns; others do.
Several of them expressed their
Views at length yesterday.
Ed Kunze, secretary of District AS
sembly 40, knights of Labor, said:
BURNS is like most Englishmen, &C
customed to brag a good deal when he
comes to America. He probably thinks
it the correct thing to do.
He is no doubt a; man of ability and
force His career shows it, but his
mead evidently has been turned by
adulation. He has many things to
blame, but there are also other things
to praise in America. There are many
things in which this country is in ad-
vance of England, as every one
knows"
Burns evidently mistakes bad man
ners for brusqueness," said James H.
Decker, Of the Carpenters. "A man
need not be boor to show that he is
outspoken in his utterances. 1t a del
egate were to go to London as the
guest of a labor organization he would
find many things to praise and many
more to blame, but / don't think he
would begin Blowing his own trumpet,
as Burns has done.
It's time Burns should talk Of
something else than Burns. II th1s' is
such an inferior country to England,
why do so many i1nglishmen who can
not get along in their own country,
come here, make a good living and be-
come American citizens?
"As Mr.. Burns knows, there are
depths of poverty and degradation in
London worse than amy that exist
here, or probably ever will exist here.
Take a single police court IN any
of the large cities in England and You
will find more drunken cases with Yio-
lence in a single morning than in all
New York
James Grant, secretary of the Paw
ing Block Cutters National union,
said:
"I believe that Burns has not exag-
gerated anything here. He has told
simply the truth as far as l have
learned. 1 don't believe any of his
statements can be controverted,
though he may have exaggerated"
There is one thing" said Delegate
S. H. Jacobson, of the Clothing Cut
ters, (which Burns cannot praise in
England. That is the climate. Surely
he will not have the gall to say that
England has a finer climate than New
York. He seems to have seen every
thing here through an English fog"
Charles F. Reichers, general secre-
Idly VI lllS OulCeQ SIdllllc w Va MI .,
said:
ct consider Mr.. Burns was unneces-
sarily harsh in his criticisms, espec-
tally since he was experiencing the
hospitality Of the labor organizations.
I would take issue with him ON several
points. He exaggerated beyond all rea-
son in talking of the tenement houses
here as compared to England.
There is nothing here to CORE
spond with the rookeries in London,
with their blind alleys and filthy
courts. Neither is there the extreme
poverty and squalor here that exists
in parts of London.
Certainly, the tenements here are
foul beyond description, but in most
cases the people live in them from
choice. For the same rent or less they
could live in decent places in Brook
Ign. Their combined rent and car fare
would not be more than the rents they
pay now. But they choose to live in
the tenements.
There are other things I could say
If thought it worth while to discuss
the matter. New York Morning
Journal.