Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-17
NINE WAR BUT SENTRY CLASH
Union Attorney Says Whole Country Has
Similar Struggle Before It.
UNIONS ALONE CAN BEAT MONEY TYRANNY
wOuIdbe Masters, Routed I'm First On
sIaught, Will, Nevertheless, Try
Again to subject America
to Their Sway.

CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-Six thousand people
crowded the Auditorium tonight at the
demonstration of the local labor unions in
honor of John Mitchell, president OF the
United Mine Workers. Intense enthusiasm
was shown when Mr.. Mitchell appeared
on the platform, and his speech later in
the evening was received with cheers.
The meeting was called to order by
James A. Dwyer as temporary chairman.
He introduced as the permanent presiding
officer of the evening James II. Payne or
the Boxmakers and Sawyers' union, who
delivered a short address eulogizing the
work done by Mr.. Mitchell for the cause
Of organized labor.
Operators Give Way Just I'm Time.
Mr.. Payne then introduced Henry D.
Lloyd Of Chicago, who spoke in part as
follows:
There was a louder cry for federal bayo-
nets in Pennsylvania in 1902 than in Illinois
troops did not move. There was a soldier
In the White House, not a corporation
proper uses of soldiers are.
But the soldiers might have gone In If the
coal monopolists had held out forty-eignt
hours longer In their piratical policy of
famine and defiance, but not to help them
drive the miners into the mines. The sol
peace, while federal judges took posses
sion of the mines as receivers by due pro-
cess of law and invited the miners in the
name Of the people to mine coal for the
Where Cleveland gave us military ueurpa-
ton and government by injunction Roose-
welt has given us arbitration, the boldest
and greatest act of recent statesmanship.
When the people of America helped Nit
chell and the miners they were helping
themselves. The whole people of America
have before them the same fight with the
same would-be master. Let us hope we
may find In our time of need as good a
leader as the miners found
That, affair i'm the valleys of Pennsylvania
was the hrst real uprising OF the people
FIRST. As always, the organized working
man furnished the 'forlorn hope Of liberty
because they were organized.
MOnOPOIiEts Resisted by Labor.
The men who claim to be the masters
of labor in the coal INDUSTRY claim to be the
masters of the consumers, of the people, OF
us in the market. They mean to be the
masters of laborers and of consumers in all
markets. They are all the same men. 1t is
all one great conspiracy, and the con-
spiracy has gone so far that the more pros
perity the country enjoys the less the peo-
Mitchell and his miners gave that con-
to nsb s hTs5 and wtR ter saTSnS Sy b6des
Quilt wall TO protect us, tfeir country
men.
east they would have attacked the miners
of the west. They would have attacked,
one after the other, all labor organizations
and then they could have dRyoured at their
leisure the unOrganized masses.
1t is literally scientifically, accurately,
alarmingly true, that between tho neople
and the money power, that most terrible OF
all tyrannies. their stands but one organi-
zation that can hold the fort while the peo-
pie rally. That is the organization OF labor
The best friends the people have today
are the unions of worklngmen. We must
| learn the lesson they teach. The people
themselves must organize II they would
survive.
After an address by Clarence s. Dsrrov
| Mr.. Mitchell spoke.