New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-21
"LABOR'S PROTEST. AND NIX. fO"Dhhhi l.
REVIEW OF THE PRoTEsTANTs-NoT LABOR
BUT TAMMANY INDIGNANT

A REVIEW OF THE Professionalism LABOR
BUT TAMMANY INDIGNANT
To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Permit to call attention 10 inc true III
wardness Of 'Iabor's Protest" against the appoint
ment of Mr. Powdery as Ohiteu o'a'e' No
sioner OF Immigration.
Tho Central Labor Union is the vehicle through
which this wall of distress finds expression Inc
Central Labor Union is supposed 10 De an o'sai'i-
cation of worknCmen it is nothing OF the Kihd'
1t is a political club. and is now precisely what
Typographical Union No was Tor years. oeiore
Republican printers asserted thcmselves-a tender
to the Democratic party and an annex 10 laihiiaH!
Hall
Do you doubt it? Well. then let me call your
attention to the personality OF those who were
conspicuous in condemning Mr.. Powderly In last
Sundays meeting. The denunciatory resolutions
were offered by one Samuel Prince. described as a
delegate o Cigar Packers Union No. 2l" Prince
Is a cigar-packer. but that is not his title TO fame
He is known on the East Side as pat Keenan,
representative in labor politics and his adherence
to the Wigwam has never been questioned. lie is
to-day a member in good standing of the Tammany
Club of the XVIII Assembly District Consequent
ly when he bowls about Powdery not being ac-
ceptable to labor ne simply means Tammany Hall.
Again. Henry Meisel who presided and on whom
devolved the work of getting the resolutions
passed. is quoted saying that Mr.. Powderly is
a Judas to the labor movement" Well. who is
Henry Meisel? He appears in the union as a
delegate of the bartenders' organization. APP
parently. he does not like Powderly. There is good
reason for this feeling on his part When Mr..
Powderly at TIE head of the knights of Labor.
which he created ard directed so long it was
respectable and stood for reputable methods. and
while George L. Murray master workman OF
District No 49, Meisel was kicked out OF the
Knights Of Labor for reasons that would be ex-
ceedngly painful to set forth in this letter.
Then, there is John y. Bogert, 'organizer of the
State Branch Of the American Federation OF
Labor" That sounds well. doesn't IT? 1t is i'm
pressive title. much more impressive than TO say
that John n Bogert is and has been all his life a
member of Tammany Hall and the most ndustri-
Gus place grabbcr and place hunter in the ranks
OF Mr.. Sheehans hungr" and thirsty followers
He held the berth of Seaier Of Weights and Meas.
would probably be there yet were Tammany still
In power.
Washington Jones" of the United Clothing Cut.
tiers. He makes II unnecessary when he declares
that he ,Rspab,ea9 party has always been
Nor shall / waste any words upon that Milky
Way of labor politics-the American Federation OF
Labor and It's weathercock president, Samue
Gompers 1t and he stands for Organism In It's
worst forms, as he has stood for every other dan.
gerous and detestabe doctrine. since he came into
prominence as La boris Vicar OF Bray
have said sufficient | hope TO demonstrate thai
the opposition 10 Terence V. Powderly is precisely
lam Mckinney hast year, and the President never
gave better evidence Of his clearness of perception
and hard practical sense than when he tossed the
protests OF Gompers ct al into the waste basket
and appointed 70 office of the most honorable
men that ever came to the front in the American
labor movement.
Mr.. Powderly stood up for sound money and III,
National honor when IL meant something and II 1.
most credtable TO see him recognized In this man
NewYork. July 20 1897, UNION LABOR.