Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-02-25


be more quickly transported in mail
wagons, but having the right of way by
virtue of the Omitted States" it makes a
passage for all other cars on the line,
and woe to the strikers who interrupt or
delay it,
Government by injunction" has ex-
tended the national authority to cover
nearly every other form of resistance to
corporation rule, until treason" is a
luxury within the reach of almost the
humblest class of workers. With a lot
of new provinces under Federal control
and the Federal Government under con-
troll of the giant trusts, American work.
ingmen will have to meet with the hard
est competition of pauper, but no longer
foreign pauper" labor. The Filipinos
will be United States subjects-how we'll
that last word sounds-for business pur-
poses, but not citizens for political
purposes, at least until the time comes
when they can be voted in blocks by
their masters to pack Congress.
This is no alarmist talk. 1t expresses
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especially to its working people. If the
"leaders" of labor had made the cause
of the Lattimer victims their own, as it
really was, and demanded proper re-
dress for that infamous wrong, the future
might look more promising for them and
all of us. 1t is not yet too late to make a
vigorous opposition at the polls and
through the free press to the subversion
of old-fashioned American liberty, even
though the press representative of capital
such as some of the New York and other
papers, call it treason" to oppose any
policy of the administration. 1t may be
treason to do so in the not distant future
if we forget abroad what we preach at
home, that all government rests on the
consent of the governed.
The Central Labor Union will hold its
regular monthly meeting Sunday after
noon at Beck's Hail. The question of
making arrangements for Labor day will
be discussed, and it is likely that the
Committee of Arrangements will be Sc
lected at this meeting. Heretofore the
Arrangements Committee has not had
sufficient time in arranging the details
and in visiting the various organizations
to get them to take part. Last Labor
day the Central Labor Union was under
great expense. The park, the horses,
the music, the printing, etc., had to be
paid for By the organization, which
amounted to at least 81 ,OOO The bust
ness men were invited to display with
floats, with no expense to them outside
of trimming up their wagons in appro-
pirate style. In Chicago and other cities
where an industrial feature is brought in
the celebration the business men are as
sessed so much each to pay for music,
etc. This the Central Labor Union will
take under consideration. If the central
body will do this, instead of being with
out funds, it will have money which will
be needed for Legislative and other pur-
poses. During the session of the Legis-
lature it is essential to have a committee
watching the interests of the toilers.
The Allied Printing Trades Council
contemplates an actirre campaigv in be-
half of the label.
There are seventeen members of trades
unions, in the Colorado Legislature, and
the, Lieutenant Governor is a member of
Federal Labor Union 1854.
The Hardstone Cutters and Curb Set
tiers Union met in regular monthly ses-
sion Monday evening. Nearly the entire
membership was present. The new con-
stitution and bylaws were adopted.
The Independent Leather Workers
withdrew from the Central Labor Union
because they did not wish to antagonize
the United Brotherhood of Leather
Workers, the regular organization. This
union has been connected with the CEN
trial body for the past ten years.
The American Federationist says there
are eleven representatives in the New
York Legislature who are members of
trade unions. Union men can now be
found in every Legislature in the United
States, and it will not be long before
trades unionists will enter the halls of
Congress, never again to quit.
Walter Young, Chairman of the Board
of Directors of the Central Labor Union,
and Secretary Charles Peetz, attended
meetings of the Boot and Shoe Workers
and Bootblacks' Unions Monday evening
and made interesting talks on the ques-
ton of organization and closer utilization.
Both bodies belong to the Central Labor
Union.
1t is rumored that at the meeting of
the Horseshoers' Uniou which voted to
their delegates from the central
body there we're only nine members
present, and there is considerable dissat-
isfaction among those who were absent
over the action taken. They say notice
should have been given to all members
before action was taken on so important
a matter.
There was only small attendance at
the meeting held last Sunday for the
purpose of forming new central labor
body Some of the most active partici-
pants were not authorized to represent
the unions to which they belong. All
breaks in the ranks of organized labor
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