The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-10-17
RIVAL UNIONS
RENEW FIGHT
American Labor Union and Gompers'
Organization at Loggerheads.
DENVER SCENE OF TROUBLE
Federation of Labor Officials Attempt
to Organize the Men Who Took
Strikers Piaces--8reach Widened.

Trouble is brewing between the
American Labor union and the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. 1t is not
a new fight. The two great labor or
CARNATIONS of the country have long
been at loggerheads. Officials of these
unions have a different way of look
ing at economic questions which are
constantly presenting themselves for
solution. The result is a determined
fight for supremacy and a division of
1abor's ranks.
In a recent report to headquarters
of the American Labor union, H. N.
Banks, member of the executive
board of the union, says the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor is trying to
organize rival unions in Colorado.
Mr.. Banks is member of the Den
yer Beer Bottlers' union, and is in
close touch with union affairs in the
centennial state.
From the report submitted to the
American Labor union officials it APP
pears that the American Federation
Of Labor people have ''butted in in
the controversy between Mattress
makers union, No. 208, and the firm
of George J. Kindel & Co. Here IS
what Mr.. Banks has to say about the
matter:
MANY coward1y and contemplate
devices have been adopted by the
Kindel company to defeat the boycott
against his mattresses, but it re-
NAMED for the organizers of the
American Federation of Labor in the
city of Denver to use the most treach-
erous weapon to break the strike and
boycott. Just as the fight had been
practically won and Mr.. Kindel had
already made overtures for settle
ment J. D. Pierce, the personal rep
resentative of Mr.. Gompers and the
American Federation of Labor in
Denver, stepped in with an attempt
to organize the scabs employed in the
factory. Being promised the Amerl-
can Federation of Labor label to use
on his scab-made mattresses, Mr..
Kindel naturally grasped at this plan
like a drowning man at a straw
''But Mr.. Pierce reckoned without
any consideration for honesty of pur-
pose among his own people in Den
yer. Here his Judgment was in err
ror His last act of treachery turned
his former friends and supporters
against him, and instead of admitting
his union of scabs to the American
Federation of Labor Trades assembly
which had been formed in opposition
to the regular body, the delegates to
the meeting unanimously condemned
this treachery to unionism and were
with difficulty restrained from throw
ing Mr.. Pierce outdoors
1--WE have always asserted that
there is good unionism and splendid
manhood among the men in Denver
who arc connected with the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor as we'll as
among our own people, and that II
eastern disturbers and disrupters had
kept out of Denver AL would be har-
monious in labor circles there The
storm of indignation against this or
ganization of scabs and the men who
is responsible for it proves the asser-
ton"
Atameeting of the executive board
of the American Labor union held the
other day, the subject was brought
up and discussed at some length but
no definite action was taken. Ger
tain it is that if the American FEEDER
alton of Labor people continue their
tactics there will be trouble in Den
ver."