The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1899-09-16
.f Various Shades Of Belief
Address the Chicago
Conference.
in Its Relation to
.orkingmen Under Dis
cussiOn.
nors Denies That Unions Of
Thor SAVIOR of the Nature
Of Combines.

c.oo. Sept. 10. -Workingmen.
C.,s advocates Of the single tax
and students Of political econ.
,sre heard at the morning session
| civic federation conference on
and combinations.
baiori,y Of the speakers spoke In
bus opposition to industrial. dnan'
md transportation combinations
,roblem in ito relation to the work.
was discussed. The commit.
| resolutions named by the con.
\. held its frst meeting at $3.50 q.
4 organized by electing ex.Gov-
q Michigan chairman, and Ralph
kslev, secretary.
Re than au hour was spent in dis.
i, plans for COMMITTEES work.
adoption Of q definite plan was
! postponed, and later In the day
!. Howe Of Louisiana moved the
p,men, Of a subcommittee Of five
Give and consider resolutions that
, be presented aud report to . gen.
Eommittee.
/ motion was carried and Chair
Luce was authorized TO name the
bmmittee. He said 1t would be
unced later in the day.
. committee on resolutions adj
Jed 10 meet again at 2 o'clock.
events on the program for the day
bn were overshadowed. however
j. announcement that in the even
Colonel William Jennings Bryan OF
|aska. and w. Bourke Cochran, the
len, head of the New York delega
would speak from the same plat
The political prominence OF tn
tra.ors gave rise to a general feel
bat a night session would be o
political than economic interest
y crowd that greeted Louis r
the New York advocate OF tn
{ tax. was the smallest Of the ses
80 far. lis address was enthus
rally cheered, the applause ceasinI
when Thomas J. Morgan rose AM
ION Trusts from a Socialistic Poin
lew"
Morgan was followed by Henri,
te, secretary Of the United Carmen
Sers of America.
ASSAULT on Consultations Righta.
N. Garland was billed to speak o
Iron and Steelworker's View G
olnations," and Z. 4. Clark. gran
Railway Conductors. on the pro
Tor an address. were not preser
The chairman called their names
Joan w. Hayes. secretary Of tn
Iais Of Labor. was requested to d
us address. In part he said:
maintain that these great com bii
Us are an assault upon the inherel
constitutional rights of the citizen
.,e real and vital advantage to
~ Is the despotic control ov'
can be proved beyond any que
01a' the methods of the trusts q
methods Of the invader and the en'
accomplished by arms directed I
vary genius.
assert boldly that trusts are Il
Ilss OF society, and as such shou
rs''oyed as any common enemy.
1ae trust being an aggressive COZ
avh Tor purely selfish objects,
Tue individual, and by overthrow
mutual rights, seizes upon his fie
sportunity and production, appl
bug them to his own personal q
Ise.. Soon the individual is ovt
"'a and every field Of producti
'0uopolized by q trust"
Labor Unions Not Trusts.
rua Gompers. president of Ann
), Iteration of Labor, followed *
4, hayes. He said in part:
"as been said that organised lat
w us' and | want to say in conn'
Ihnl TINS, that to our minds that
w. 'ute misnomer. Organized lst
!, open Its doors to all who VIC
a"ses' and ask them to come in q
III the benefits. You canr
! into a trust.
nave seen the enactment Of
"o"h as the antitrust law and