Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-05-29
Arises Out Of III Feeling Existing
Between W, 7, NJ, and Amerl.
can Federation.
ANOTHER SECRET SESSION.
Spirited Speeches 10 Which Compers
Apd Mitchell Are Referred 10 In
Bitter Terms,

Tho Western Federation of Miners
continued In secret session today de-
spite ils announcements that the week
was ia begin With open doors, IL ap.
pears that there IN trouble IN the fed.
Grafton. ana II arises because OF the M
aud the American Federation Of Labor
Resolutions are before the convention
looking TO the complete severance ~
all a'lllIatlon with the American fed.
Grafton, ana the Joining of hands with
the Industrial union movement, which
IL to be launched In chicago June a. 4
vote was not reached ON this question
today the time being spent In spirited
debate The question Il one which has
drawn out nm unusually large expires.
sion Of opinion, Many OF the speeches
today were lengthy ana iull of spirit
Most of them referred 10 Nompcrs
and NJ lohcll In bitter terms ana one
lcngihy effort from the foor which
closed at noon discussed lining up the
10000 members Of the federation on one
sIdo or other Of the political fence, The
speech which was frequently applaud.
I'd, declared that Gompors ana Mitchell
were using organized labor for their
personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT rather than
TO mako n subseryc the ends for which
II was organized,
INDUSTRIAL rNlONlSM,
The new cry Of the federation Is IN,
duslrIal unIonism" supplanAng the
old effort for trades unions ana this
new move IN an interesting on growth
Of present labor conditions Response.
bic for II IN The large number Of fall
ures lo succeed In carrying out strikes
which has mado genuine leaders LOOK
10 moro compact organization, The
cali for the convention ~ meet In chi.
cago IN entitled Manifesto and can
for n Convention" II says IN pnrl
Social relations ana groupings nut
reflect mechanical and industrial COTS
dIions The great facts Of present IN
dustry are the displacement of human
skin by mochlnos ana the lncronpo ~
capitalist power through concentration
IN the lossogslon Of the tools WithiNhl,h
wealth NJ produced ana distributed
Because of those facts trade dyi'
slone among the lnborcW ana oompoil-
ton among capitalists are alike dlsap'
pruring. Clnee divisions grow cyor
moro hSod UP IN a common scryllude
of an workers To the machines which
they tend, New machines over ropluo.
Ink Jess productive ones wipe out whole
trades ana plunge new bodies OF worK'
ers INTO the ever growing army ~
tradc,csS hopeless unemployed, IA
human bolngs and human SIKH are DIS
placed by mechanical progress the capt
Ia lists need use the workers only dur.
l.ul. ksfl.s "A a
nerves. respond most Intensely The
momoDt The lnb0ror no longer yields tho
maximum OF profits he N thrown upon
the scrap pile 10 starVo alongside iho
discarded machine, \ dead line hnN
been drawn and mn age limit cstnb.
llshel, across which IN this world %
monopolI2od opportunities means cons
dcmnnlion TO Industrial death,
"Thc battles OF the past emphasize
this lesson The textile workers of
Lowell Philadelphia and Fnll River;
the butchers OF chicago, weakened by
the dIsintogTating effects Of trade d.
visions, the mnohnlats on the santa
Fc, unsupported By their fellow workers
subject TO the fnmo masters, the long
Struggling miners of Colorado, hnm'
pcrod by lack Of unity and solidarity
upon the industrial battlefield, all bear
toncY of labor as at present organized,
"ThIl wprn.oui ana corrupt systou'
offcrs only u perpetual struggle fll
slight relief within WACO navery II
IN blind 20 the possibility OF oAtNbllHn'
mp nn INDUSTRIAL democracy Wherein
there shall ho no wage slavery, hul
whore the workers shall own the tools
witch hoy operate ana the products pi
which lhcy alone Wlll enjoy
IT skaters the ranks Of the workers
into fragments rondcrlnga them hpp.
less ora lmpotent upon the industrial
| battlefield,
Separation Of craft from craft rem.
| dors industrial ana financial Rolldor'
ny impossible
Union mon ecnb upon union men,
hatred 0t worker for worker IL on.
| gcndtrcd, ana the workers are dqlR'