The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-12-15

pointed TO draft resolutions in regard
to the decision OF Judge Woods and the
imprisonment OF Debs and others.
\. K Hysell, Thomas J. Morgan and
Thomas Tracy were appointed.
Plank was taken up, and Mr.. Weis-
man: Of the bakers union, moved to
amend it to read: AN eiEht-hour day
for all government employees, national,
state and municipal"
This was met by strong opposition.
Delegate Lloyd, OF Boston. offered an
amendment TO read: "a legal work
day OF not more than eight hours"
which was adopted.
Planks 5, 6. and were adopted
without discussion.
hen the famous plank 10 came up,
few minutes before 1 o'clock, the tug
OF war was reached. Mr. Strasser, OF
New Jersey, stUiod that he proposed to
make the author OF that plank declare
himself. He offered as an amendment
tho addition OF the words: "By means
OF condscation without compensation"
T. J. Morgan, author OF the plank,
seconded the amendment. A Nc
CrayIh. of Boston, offered a substitute
as follows: THE abolition OF the
monopoly system OF land holding and
the substituting therefore OF titla
occupancy and use only"
J. Mahlon Barnes. OF the cigar
makers union. raised the point OF order
that a similar resolution had been al
ready adopted by the federation. and
therefore could not he considered.
President Gompers ruled agaIust the
point, and NJ. Barnes appealed from
the decision OF the chair. Hall dozen
men wanted 10 discuss the apueal. but
the president ruled tnat only the ap-
peIIant aud mo Appellee could speak.
Barnes demanded that tina president
vacale the chair during the discus ion,
but the latter declined. THE chair was
sustained by vote OF 81 TO 10. Most of
the delegates came 10 the hall this
afternoon with spreche. on plank 10
prepared, but this fact no doubt did
much to keep down infammatorv ex.
pressiOnS.
= Thomas J. Morgan prevented a chart
To show the rsiativs numbers and
wealth Of workiugmen, business men,
capitalists and milllnnaires. His speech
was u vigorous advocacy OF socialism.
A five minute limit nRd been ma e, but
when his time wa up hail dozen men
volunteered % give hlm their time and
he spoke naf an hour. lie denied the
charge made in President GOmpers re.
port that the SOciui;stic idea was SNUG.
glei into the programme.
He said: ave have as our allies in
the S0CialistIc movement all kinds Of
labor saving machinery. and we have
the mtiinnaIres. Tney nut Debs in Jail
to-day. am glad nj it. hat is the
kind OF work that will make you vote
to nut men on the bench that will not
render such decisions"
Mr.. Strasser followed Mr.. MORGAN in
opposition to Socialism. He said So.
ciali.m was not progressing. The
SnCiallstic growth in Germany was not
Socialism, he said, but the rise OF de.
mocracv.
MIR. BrAmwood, OF the Typographical
Union, said, so far as he was informed,
the delegates woro well under instruc.
tinns from their unions as to their votes
and he thought ali arguments were use.
less
Others smoke at length and the con-
vention adjourned with the question
still under consideration
Thomas ]. Morgan, OF Chicago, said
in regard 10 DebI' sentence: "The
decision, aside from its immediate Ell
lects on Mr.. Debs, is good thing for
the labor movement. 1t shows what
nav be expected from Legislatures and
courts that are controlled by capital
lists"
William b. Prescott president OF the
Union, said: II am op-
posed to the punishment OF one man
for the acts OF another. believe that
the injunction that Debs violated was
against his real legal rights"