The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-21
TO FORM NEW PARTY
Organized Labor Will
Put Finger in
Politics.
A TRADE UNION CLUB.
New Party v i'll Be Organ
lied Tomorrow
Afternoon.


the city hall administration will be for
mally opened in Labor headquarters to-
morrow afternoon at o'clock, when the
political club will be organized. Chair
man M. f. Garrett Of the committee on
candidates told The Spy man last even
ing that aspirants for municipal office
under labor's banner, will be selected
from each ward Local labor unions
have been invited to attend in body
and the biggest hall in the headquarters
of Worcester trade unionists will be
jammed to the doors unless enthusiasm
drops several notches.
The Worlingmen's Independent Poll
teal club, whose existence last year as
the representative of the political
movement in local labor organizations
was unhealthy, will be knocked into in
significance if harmony prevails when
the new club is organized The club
with the long name wasn't anything
more than a bowling success last year,
because a continual battle among
members Of cliques was kept in exist
ence.
The political outlook for labor union
lists, according to local leaders, was
never brighter than now, but Wednes-
tiers showed that methods Of secrecy do
not pay in honest warfare. Members of
local unions who favor the political
club, and believe it has a mission to per
form, have no hesitancy in saying that
stormy sessions behind closed doors are
not always productive of business. A
few of the self -assertive trade unionists
who object to anything indicative of
progress, declare that only members of
unions should be allowed in the hall,
and, above all, mo reporters.
A prominent labor leader told The Spy
man last night that the objection of
certain members of local unions to the
presence Of newspaper men arose from
a keen appreciation of the power to
knock a weak argument into smither-
Gems by an expose in the newspapers.
unless this club broadens and is will
ing to receive voters and young men
whether attached to local unions or
not, the labor ticket will look like a
punched meal ticket when the voters
get through with it on election day"
If the factions which cause dissansion
in the ranks of local labor unions would
throw aside personal ambitious, the
vote of the members of local unions
would cut huge chunks in the results
of voting day Trade unionists and
socialists have no love for each other,
yet Dennis Doyle, socialist candidate
for the legislature in ward is president
of the local Bottlers and Drivers union,
and is being Endorsed by that Union.
Candidate Doyle says that the National
Brewery Workers union favor social
istic doctrines, but delegates to the
convention of the state branch at North
Adams know that the American FEEDER
alton of Labor is not stretching out it's
right hand to the socialist labor party.
A hitch is sure to come when motions
are made in the meeting semorrCw to
indorse socialistic candidates because
they are labor unioniStS. >
Local leaders in labor circles have
been persistent in their announcement
Of the principles of the socialist labor
party and that body has, through its
orators, spattered mud on the tlades
union movement. Anti-De Leonites in
the socialist labor party talked CT APP
plying for an injunction restraining the
New Yorker from causing a clash IN
the party, when the leader began his
political moves. The platform OF the
socialist labor party, however, declares
against injunctions, and speakers IN
Sunday afternoon meetings on the conf
mon, when the party was fishing for
labor union support, depicted the nor
hors Of law by injunction in blood-cur-
ding fashion.
The prime movers in the political pot
which is boiling at labor headquarters
vince when it comes to indorsing So
cialistic candidates as representa- ives
Of organized labor. In the meeting
| Wednesday evening opposition devel-
| oped to the candidacy of labor Union
lists on anything but labor platform,
but the discussion was left for edjust-
ment in the meeting tomorrow.
AS means of showing dislike for the
action of the board of aldermen in re-
| fusing citizens the right to vote on the
| eight-hour law, local leaders who nave
the cause of organized labor at heart
believe there is possibility Of electing
| strong candidates who favor trades
union principles. The candidacy of
| Charles o. Blake in ward 8, who is
struggling for a seat in the aldermanic
| chamber; Thomas F. Harvey of ward
| 5, who has been mentioned as a candi-
date for the common council, and JEFF
ferson Z. Pierce, candidate t-large for
! the board of aldermen, will probably
| be Endorsed tomorrow. Friends of Peter
f. Sullivan, legislative candidate in
ward 8, will make a strong bid to have
the sanction of the political club at
tached to his candidacy.
The meeting tomorrow afternoon will
be fair test of the voting strength of
local labor organizations Warm dis
cussion will ensue when objection is
made to the candidacy of labor union
lists on the socialist ticket, and if the
meeting is as it should be, worlzlngmer,
who favor trades unions, whether mem
bers of local organizations or not will
be admitted, and assist in swelling the
deluge of labor union votes, which lead
ers believe will flood ballot boxes in the
municipal election.