The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-04

the hands of detectives and lawyers. He did not believe in killing anybody or anything. He was down in Florida some years ago and saw a snake. But he didn't harm it. He would not even kill John D. Rockefeller if he had the chance If Morgan and other great men were so important in keeping the wheels of the world moving, why was it that when he spent three months in Europe the wheels still kept running and the world went along just the same
 The speaker reminded the working men that it was time for them to wake up They did not want to kill the cap tains of industry, but they did not want to give the captains of industry the chance to kill them. (Applause) They must build up great physical force-a force that will be greater and more powerful than that built by the capital ist. They must belong to a labor or ganization, but they must not stop at that. They must go further and belong to a political organization; and it must be a political party sf their own class, and then they must keep on until they own the things with which they work and the land on which they work and when that has been Accomplished then strikes will cease. He did not want them to die, but if they did he wanted them to fall for a cause worth dying for. They might lose some skirmishes, they might retreat at times, they might even lose a battle, but, like Washington at Yorktown, they would ultimately tri- umph and come out victorious and the sun would rise on a new world-a world of freer men and women. Great ap- plausel
 Alexander F. Irvine, the next speak CT, on rising was received with a per- feet storm of applause. He reminded his hearers that they in New Haven were very dignified people. He con- trasted the affairs in California with the justice dispensed in the cases of the local teamsters who were the guests of the hotel on Whalley avenue for a time. He scored them for stroking the hair of the dog that bit them by re- turning to power the very men who prosecuted them. The condition of af- fairs now going on, he said, was merely an indication of the last great struggle. They had reached that point of the journey where they must make 8 stand, and in order to do this they must have the power and backbone to stand pp and assert their rights at the ballot box.
 The following, resolutions were put to the meeting and passed amid the ut most enthusiasm:
 Whereas, The miners of the west as early as 1892 showed themselves staunch defenders of labor's rights by manful- ly resisting the encroachments of the mining capitalists, and
 Whereas, The united forces of cap italism used the governors, judges and militia of that section of the country to crush this resistance by throwing the miners into bull pens, shooting them in the back, and even denying them in death the last rights of faith, and
 Whereas The Western Federation of Miners has since then stood as the defenders of the working class in the west, and
 Whereas, Ex-Governor Steunenberg was killed on December 3O 1905, un- doubtedly as the result of some busi- ness rivalry arising from the present competitive system of society, and
 sa,St%oIslN oIo i, |, seized upon this opportunity to com pass the total destruction of the Vest ern Federation of Miners by loading the responsibility for the crime of one of it's own members on the shoulders of innocent members of officers of the miners organization, and
 Whereas, Tn pursuance of the dast- ardly plan, President Charles H. Moy- CT and William D. Haywood, e. A. Pit tibone, Vincent St. John,, and others have been kidnapped and deported in defiance of law and constitution, from their own states, without being given a hearing, and
 Whereas, We recognize if we allow such an unlawful act of conspiracy on the part of the state officials of Idaho and Colorado to pass unchallenged, like acts of terrorism will spread like wild fire throughout the United States tc the utter destruction of working class | liberty, therefore be it
 Resolved, That we, the working class of the New Haven, Conn, in mass meeting assembled in Music hall on this Sd of April, 1906, under the aus pices of a joint conference inaugurated by the socialist party and trades unions condemn the action of the executive of ficials and capitalists lackeys of the i two states of Colorado and Idaho, from Continued on Sixth Page.l