The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-08
WASHINGTON LETTER
(FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
Washington, D. G., Oct. 8, 1910

remain in the Government Printing
Office and there is to be no discrimina-
tion between union ard non-union labor
in government employees This fact
was made plain in n statement issued
by the President on Tuesday evening
after conference with committee of
prominent labor leaders, composed of
Samual Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor John
Mitchell, the leader of the Anthracite
Coal Strike, and others of the Fedora
tion. The conference has been described
as a farce" as the statement issued by
the president had been prepared before
hand. The President states that he is
president of all the people of the United
States, without reference to creed, color
birthplace, or social condition and that
he can no more recognize the fact that
man is union man than that he is a
Protestant, Catholic, Jew or Gentle.
| He says that it is out of the question to
| dismiss Miller because he is a non union
man and that his personal fitness must
| be decided in the regular routine of ad-
ministrative detail This is u hard
blow to Labor as the controverse really
involved the question whether Govern
ment Printing Office and presumably
every plant controlled by the Govern
ment should be an open or union
shop. 1t was evident that the labor
leaders were much disappointed but
they refused to make any statement re-
garding the decision. The Csc is now
regarded rs settled as far as Mr.. Roose
Welt is concerned. but many people be
lieve that Labor will retaiate and that
the republican party will loose many
labor votes. The union men argue
that as the President daily dscrlml-
mates between democrats aud repub-
licans in selecting government servants
he could quite as well discriminate be-
tween union and non union men. They
declare that hereafter this shall be the
price of the labor vote
The American Fedtr ltion of Labor
holds its annual convention in Boston
next November and it is expected that
the Miller case will be considered and
decision reached which will represent
the official opinion Of organized labor.
The controversy might thus be drawn
into the presidential campaign.
The political season has opened in
Washington The President has re-
turned to the White House, Senators
and Representatives are registering at
the different hotels every day, and
Washington has again become the
political and social center Of the cOun-
try. The Fifty eighth Congress will
not be dull one. 1t hegins with an
extra session and on the eve Of presi
Dental election, there is IA new speaker
in the House and many new members
in the House and Senate. The questions
which interest the politicians, are in
cial legislation, the transi5ihmian canal
ship subsidy, the race question, the
postal scandals, Indian scandals, the
Alaskan boundry, the anti -canteen law,
the state hood question and the case of
| Senator Reed SmOOt of Utah are some
of the many subjects which will come
up for debate The eyes of the Nation
will be turned on Washington which is
becoming more and more the political,
social and diplomatic arena of the
Western hemisphere.
Democrats in Washington are much
elated over the prospects of the party
in Ohio and New York. 1t is evident
that the republicans of Ohio are
frightened and are appealing to the
party at large for assistance. There
have been fifteen hundred invitations
sent out to republican speakers through
the country, and Secretary Shaw, Sec
cretary Wilson, Secretary Moody,
Speaker to be Cannon, Senator Fair
banks, Senator Depew and half "a dozen
other prominent republican senators
have promised to come out to Ohio to
help Senator Hanna defeat Tom John
son. 1t is believed that Mr.. Hanna =
refusal to debate with Mr.. Clarke will
injure the republican cause in his state
Consul General Robert =. Skinner,
our representative at MAJ seiles France
has just arrived in Washington to com.
plete arrangements for his coming ex-
petition into Abssjnia He is going
there to invite Emperor Menelik to
participate in the st. Louis Exposition
and to make commercial agreement
with the United States An American
warship will convey Mr. Skinner to the
| Red Sea and detachment Of United
States marines will escort him on his
long overland journey to the negro EN-
peror's capital. The European press is
somewhatat excited over this "Ameri
can invasion Of Abyssinia and publish