The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-02-06
LABOR UN|QN|ST ARE
SUPPORTING HEARST
HIS CANDIDACY FOR PRESIDENT
is RECEIVING AN IMPETUS,


President of the United States. Big
Hearst Club is Organized at St.
Louis Under Most Glowing Aus
pices Sentiment is Growing.
St. Louis, Mo-, Feb. "A union la
Dor Hearst club, with $50 members,
representing practically every organ-'
ization in the city, was organized here
on Wednesday night at meeting held
| in Lightstone's Hall, Eleventh street
and Franklin avenue. The meeting
was an, enthusiastic one, and the
speakers were frequently applauded,
every mention Of Mr.. Hearst's name
being greeted by, cheers, and the clap
ping of hands Resolutions were ADJ
declaring Congressman William Ran
dolph Hearst the greatest man since
| Abraham Lincoln.
The meeting was called to order at
1880 o'clock by James H. Bowman OF
Chicago, former president of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor. Mr.. Bow
man said that he and five associates,
all union men, had come from Chicago
to assist in organizing the sentiment,
natural in the breast of union men,
for William Randolph Hearst for Pres
ident of the United States.
He introduced Barney Cohen, presi-
dent of the Illinois State Federation of
Labor, who said that he had not come
here to dictate to the union men of
st. Louis, but to appeal to them to
join in the grandest' movement of the
age-a movement that is destined to
break the .shackles of wage slaves as
surely as the election Of Abraham
Lincoln struck down the shackles Of
100000 chattel slaves.
Aided Chicago Labor Unions.
"The: National Democratic commit
teemen, or some of them,' said Mr..
Cohen, feared to send the. national
convention to Chicago because of the
large number of union men there
friendly to Mr.. Hearst. It is the first
time 1 have ever known the Demo-
cratic party to run away from the la
Dor vote. (Cheers.)
''The union men of St. Louis have
the same reason to love Mr.. Hearst as
we have in Chicago, for had the plans
in Chicago not been frustrated by the
advent Of Mr.. Hearst with his great
newspaper-plans which included the
:entire demolition of trades unionism-
the next move would have been made
/ to destroy the unions of St: Louis. We
! appeaIfo you as brothers TO- join; with
i in this Vernent 1T The grandest
zf.ment to place labor i N 8 feprgs tatfve
| end trustworthy friend lii the CHIEF
executive office Of the greatest nation
On earth.":
Mr.. Cohen was followed by Peter
Dienhart, the union pressman appoint
ed by Mayor Carter Harrison in the
Chicago Board Of Education He said
that he owed his appointment 10 the
fact that Mr.. Hearst in. his newspapers
advocated and insisted on the appoint
ment, of a union man On the Board Of
Education, which had never before
/ been graced by a union man. Mr..
Dienhart continued:
Mr.. Hearst has been approached
time and again by men Of great
wealth, advertisers who were paying
him large sums for space, complain
ing of the editorial policy of his papers,
as 1t encouraged workingmen to or
ganize and demand higher wages. No
appeals of this nature ever affected
Mr.. Hearst, for, no matter how much
money an advertiser spends for space
in Mr.. Hearsts papers, not by one iota
can he dictate one line of the paper S
editorial or general policy.
"Mr. Hearst could make thousands
OF dollars where he now makes hum
dreds if he would only consent to
cease advocating the interests of the
people and do as nearly all other met
ropolitan papers do--follow the dicta-
tes of corporations and foster their in
tersts. Mr.. Hearst is as firm as ada
mant in support of that immortal
principle, Equal right for all, privi-
leges for none,' and as President of
the United States he will be President
Of all Of the people, not a. select and
favored few.
Mr.. Dienhart spoke of Illinois fac
tory and convict labor laws, and said
that, though the Chicago Federation
of Labor had tried for years to induce
the Legislature, they had failed ut
terly, ''untl Mr.. Hearst came to Chi
cago."
The applause which followed Mr.
Dienhart's remarks was deafening.
81. Louis Needs Hearst Psper.
The next speaker was John McPar-
land, member of Typographical Union
No. 16, of Chicago. He spoke very
eloquently and entertainingly of the
noble support given to the cause of
labor by Mr.. Hearst in Chicago, San
Francisco, and New York, and was
frequently applauded. He said:
'Mr. Hearst has lately established a
paper in Los Angeles, Cal, where the
printers had for years been waging
an unequal warfare against the Los
Angeles Times. He was asked to put
in this paper by the Typographical
Union, His San Francisco paper prac-
tically covered the field and there was
very little business inducement for him
to put in a paper at Los Angeles. He
established one there to support Il
principle. You working men of St.
LOUIS need Hearst paper, too, and it
:, is up to you whether you get it.
J. 'Boston, Mass, will soon have a
Hearst paper and you may know that
the dry bones will rattle and the rights