The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-08-20
VERMONT'S CONSPIRACY
LAWS THE BLACKLIST
Declared James Duncan in Addressing
Labor Rally in Opera House Saturday
Night--Adyises Union Men to
Vote for Mckenzie.

Owing to the early hour set for the
labor rally in the opera house Saturday
evening and the excessive heat, there
were less than hundred people who As
semhled to listen to an address by the
labor leader, James Duncan, first vice
president of the American federation Of
labor, and secretary treasurer OF the
granite cutters international union,
who was at Montpelier last week to-
attend the labor convention, ] r. Mari
introduced the speaker, who occupied iif-
teen minutes.
Mr.. Duncan confined his remarks to
the work OF the labor party in this
state and throughout the country in re-
gard To politics and also scored the
government for introducing coolie labor
into the building of the Panama canal,
saying that the latter WAS disgrace
to the country and crime, in SO far
as there are 50 many people starving
for want Of work in this country, ess
pecially in the new possessions which
this country recently assumed. He
claimed that the whole cause of IL,
summed up in nut shell, was that
the coolie laborers could be brought OYER
here and hired for little or nothing,
while the American laborers wanted at
least living wage for their work. He
said that the government officials claim
the Panama climate, but he had yet to
that American lahorers cannot live iii
hear Of any Of the American officials and
bosses sent down There that ls.s died.
In speaking Of the working man in
politics be said that he was glad to
hear when he arrived at the convention
at Montpelier that the workingInen OF
Barre had put up a man 10 run for the
legislature according 70 the very plan
that had been mapped out by the Amer.
ican federation Of labor. He asserted
that the labor movement in this coun-
try was awakening to the fact that il
legislation was TO he enacted in the
United States congress and the legis-
latnres of the states it had got 70 come
about through the united efforts at the
polls OF the working men and the farin-
ers and down the corporations and
bosses who were fighting the enactment
Of laws that are intended for the general
good Of the people. What we have
in mind, he said, was not scramble
to get into Office, but 4 purely business
proposition and in support Of which
they had attempted To elect few work
ingmen into the legislatures and into
congress if possible.
The reason that we have for putting
up men from the working class Is that
the men who have been put up have
stood in the way of tho interests Of
the masses, and to do away with these
men we have taken recourse to our own
unions, where we know a man is fair
and win represent the interests Of the
people OF all the states from the
Atlantic to the Pacific that have con-
spiracy laws. Vermonts was the black
est. Things have been carried OH III
this state. he said and are still being
advanced, that would make feudal
lord hush with shame The Repub
lican party in this state claims 70 be
the good proteetionist OF the people, but
it i only so as far as their own in-
dividual schemes are concerned. Law
yers. he declared. are elected into the
legislature to further the ends Of the
corporations and they enact laws that
inveighle the people into the courts
rather than keep them out.
In concluding his remarks he said
that the people Of Barre now have q
chance to elect man 10 the next legis-
lature in direct accordance with the
plans of the convention at Montpelier
and of the A. i. Of L.--s man who
viii work for the interests Of the people
Of Barre and Of the state or you can
vote for man who will work only to
continue the same laws as before When
You have elected a man from the Labor
party, you have not only furthered the
interests Of the party, but You have
shown the other side .aat they will
have TO take up our measures and work
for them, or be relegated to the rear.