The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-30
LABOR STANDS FOR BRYAN.
Organized worlSinEmcn Will Vote
the Democratic National Ticket.

Organized worlSinEmen VIII Vote
A labor leader said to a reporter for
The Times yesterday that the vote of or
gained labor would be cast for Bryan and
Stevenson. He said:
Il know that Mr.. Powderly is on the
stump for Mr. Mckinley. but Mr.. Powderly
! is no longer labor leader, has no pres
| tige with organized workingmen. and has
long been discrediied by them. They I'M
derstand that he holds a good office under
the present Administration and that he was
appointed to ii in spite of the protests OF
organized labor throughout the country.
Mr.. Powderly did not dare TO go into the
Pennsylvania mining districts during the
strike ard did not even go to Scranton, OF
which cit; he was at one time mayor. Had
he attem .,tcd to speak there he would have
created ;.Jre trouble than he did at Cleve-
land T miners would not have listened
to him.
1.-THE Debs movement has collapsed, be-
cause IL has been shown on what organized
labor considers competent authority That
Mr.. Debs is in the employ of the Hanna
Mckinley syndicate and that he received
s25. 900 for the services which he is now
performing.
"The Democratic managers at Eastern
headquarters received a despatch last
night from the State of Washington that
the Debs movement had gone by the
board and that 1t is no longer factor in
the campaign and that tine vote OF organic
ed labor would be cast for the Democratic
national ticket.
.Mr. Powderly holds an Office which the
law says must be q non-partisan one, but
he proved himself to be very active par
tisan.
In this matter of non-partisan offices,
lock at the Industrial Commission. Every
member of that Commission who is not q
member of Congress is on the stump and
doing active campaign work for the Repub-
lican party. They are Andrew l.. Harris,
John NJ. Farquhar. Eugene d. Conger,
Thomas W. Phillips Charles ]. Harris,
John L. Kennedy. Albert Clarke. Charles
H. Litchman, and d. A. Tompkins.
''On the Democratic side there is James
R. Sovereign, ex-General Master Workman
Of the knights of Labor. He is at the head
of Democratic bureau, and practically
every labor leader who is at liberty to
speak is on the stump for Bryan.
Samuel Gompers, who is at the head of
the American Federation of Labor. cannot.
of course. take any active part in politics.
but he has put his signature to the strong
est kind of an anti-imperialist document,
and is a Bryan man.
Look at the good work that is being
done by Big Six. as the Typographical
Union of New<York City is knawn. That
organization has marked Mckinley for de-
feat and by means Of literature has put
itself in connection with over Il. 00) labor
locals and has spent 1000 week in pro-
noting the interests of the people ard
the peoples candidate, William J. Bryan.
Mother Jones either has gone or will
20 to New York-in the interest of the Re-
publican party, but her efforts will fall
fat when II is shown that she is in the
employ of the Republican Campaign Com
mittee.
III some of those districts where great
poverty prevails among the working peo-
pie despite these prosperous times, and
where ii is suspected that the Republic
can campaign managers will use money
freely. the word has been passed TO take
the money and give the bribcrs the dou-
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