The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-24
JOB TO COMMITTEE.
MAKES ATTACK ON THE LABOR
 LEADERS.
ssys from Gompers Down they Per sist in Misrepresenting Tnings
 -,Acts of Lawiessness py .S9 the Unions

Washington, March 8.-In discussion of the confusion which opponents of the oight hour bill declared would toliow tho srIactment of that measure into law. Fredssrick W. Job, secretary of the em- picytrs' union of Chicago, today said 70 the Senate committee on education and labor. that he did not believe the labor leaders of the country represented the real views of the rank and nie or work ihEmen organized or unorganized. t2e made an attack on the leaders. aseert- inC that from Gompers down these lead CTS persisted in msrepresenting condi- ticns.
 Mf. Job called attention to labor trou- bles where non-union men had been beaten down with clubs or shot, and said the officiaI organs of organized la bcr had never contained one word of denunciation of these crimes. He sand tue organs mentioned were edited largo ly by the labor leaders themselves and therefore they assisted in making crimi- nals of the men.
 As an Illustration of his assertion that the lenders did not represent the men, Mr Job said he had been told in con- ficence by iaboring men in Chicago that the surest manner of defeating can. didate for a political office was to get him endorsed by the labor leaders and ths rank and file under the Australian ballot system would turn out and vote agaIBst the candidate. Mir. Job said many instances where this had been done were cited to prove the contention.
 MT. Job quoted from a pamphlet pre- pared by Secretary Cushing. of the Na- tionaa Manufacturers Association, in op- DC sition to the passage of the eight hour bill.
 The pamphlet contained a passag. from a Senate report written by Chair mai MeComas. of the cofhmittee on ed- ucation and labor Senator McComae condemned the pamphlet as containing misstatements' in regard to the exemp- tior under section 2 of the bill.
 D. A. Tompzins, of North Carolina, also spoke before the committee. He was questioned in regard to child labor in the South. and answered that the misunderstanding interests of the South were now recovering from the labor re- strictions caused by the slavery system. Slavery was form of restriction. he said, but the improvement for all classes fin the South was progressing and would work out satisfactorily without Iegisla- tion better than with it.
 The afternoon session of the bearing was devoted to arguments in favor of the bill. H. R. Fuller, representing the railway trainmens organization, Andrew Furuseth, representing the American seamens Union and President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor were heard. and the hearings ended with his testimony.
 Mir. Fuller declared that the opponents of the bill acknowledged that they were practically in favor of government by in- junction which would abolish trial by jury and all the rights that labor holds sacred If the biii were unconstitutional. as it's opponents claimed. then an amendment should be made to the constitution. He criticized Representative Hogg of Colo rado for coming. before the committee and recittng the reign of crime tin his State, saying Mir. Hogg should have been con- tent to oppose the bill on the floor and that murder and crime were questions en- tlreiy outside of its scope, as the bill legallsed neither.
 Mr. Fuller severely criticized several judges who have issued injunctions against Iaborers on strike. Mir. Furuseth reviewed the religious and social develop ment of the world from the Roman em- pire to tile present time. He said that the opponents of the bill held that the product of labor was a property right. This right had been admitted in every in- junction that had been issued against labor, but it was an entirely erroneous assumption. Pursued to it's logical con cIusion 1t meant that the laborer was the property right of the capitalist.
 Mir. Gompers challenged many of the statements of the opponents of the meas ure. Taking up the statement of Daniel Davenport, in which the charge was nade that the labor. leaders as a rule were socialists. Mir. Gonpers said that he had refuted this statement at the time 1t was made by Mir. Davenport. For. this. reason he declared that MT. Davenport had stated what he knew to be false. Mr. GonApers declared that the use of the. injunction against labor was of comparatively recent origin, and entirely unjustified.
 James M. Breck who had opposed the bili, he said. in his hearing before the committee. had quoted him (Gompers) as saying: T believe if was exercising my right as citizen of this country and enjoined by the courts injunction would not obey that injunction"
 Commenting on this Mir. Gompers de- ciared: T resent that statement most emphatically."