The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-11
w. L. MOORE EXTOLS UNIONS.
NO POWER HAS DONE MORE no
SAVE UNION or STATES,
The CHIEF of the weather Bureau Says
He Also Says the President IL AL
ways Oh the side OF the Labor Union
The Typographical Union Meeting.

WASHINGTON, Aug lO.--The forty-ninth
session of the International Typographical
Union was begun in the Columbia Theatre
here this morning, with 34i Of the 358 &C
credited delegates present. There was one
woman delegate, Miss Carrie Cathart Of
ST. Joseph, Mo.
Henry B. T. Mcfarland, president Of the
Board of District Commissioners, deliv-
cred the address of welcome. He said the
principle Of the labor union long since won
a victory that will not be reversed. unless
by the mistakes Of labor unions. II must
be admitted. he said, Il al they have, on the
whole, been benefcent factor and it
could not he denied that the labor union
was anaturaI product Of this age Of organ
ization and combination.
But organized labor must realize that
not any combination of local or trades
unions, but only the national union, will
prevail 1t must not make the fatal mis-
take, he said, of offering opposition to the
dictates of law and order, Of trifling with
the laws DEGREES or Of interposing any
obstacles whatever to the approved course
of events.
He said:
The great majority of members Of unions
are Americans. and. therefore, we may as
sumo. patriots. They will uphold the Consti-
tuition, as they will stand by the flag. They
will not put themselves in conflict with the
laws of the Government, and L a conflict be
threatened they will yield They will not
array themselves against the state IN any or
more. They will actively serve the State in
time of peace. In time of war where the State
may most need them. they are to be looked
en.. h.,, Il nf 1a. tntn N
archv in the shape Of mob rule, which strikes
through lynching and otherwise at the very
heart and life of our country.
! cannot believe that such Intelligent men
as | see before me will ever allow the labor
unions to be led by wicked or foolish coun-
sellers into the fatal bhinder of opposing
tivrs the civil and the military power OF the
State, that State of which they are members
and which they can control through the
organs of public opinion.
Nor can / believe that in the future the
great labor organizations will allow them
selves to be led into opposition to any OF the
best interests of the whole community For
in either case they would suffer irretrievable
loss themselves. and would fail in what they
undertook
Prof. Willis l.. Moore, chief OF the Weather
Bureau said that President Roosevelt
was the stanch friend of organized labor
and was always on the side OF the unions
in their disputes. He also said:
love my country and | believe that no
one can b.. good union man who Is not a
patriotic cltizen Of the greatest OF all unions
- the union of these United States. Ana
! believe that there IL no power that has
done more to strengthen the union OF the
States than the union of labor.
one has done a ighty work in guaran.
tceng TO man political. religious and civil
liberty: the other has done equally as great
a service to humanity in defending our in
dustrial liberties.
Great as have been the achievements OF
the American political union. it will fail in
lis greatest of missions if il does not evolve
economic conditions that shall give TO the
toiler more of the product of his own in
dustry, even more than has yet been ac-
corded to him in this best Of all countries
The delegates went on an excursion this
afternoon 10 River View.
The Laws Committee, to which is referred
questions of policy, has under consideration
a resolutiOn assessing all members of the
u ion in the United States five cents
month for the purpose of raising fund
with which 10 carry on fight against nom
union newspapers.
The PLAN as outlined by the proponents
of the resolution, is to concentrate the
fight upon the Los Angeles Times. whose
editor il Gen. Harrison Gray Otis. The
COMMITTEES is expected to report favorably
or unfavorably upon the resolution during
the present week.