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have always contended. that lahore eco
nomio, corrective and constructive policy
makes for the uplift Of all the people"

nave always COMMENDED, that lahore eco
nomic, corrective and constructive policy
makes for the uplift Of all the people"
President Gompers has also gone on record
in the case OF the western miners charged
with assassination, in the following dec
laration:
ut becomes my duty to refer to . great
travesty upon Justice toward Messrs.
Meyer. Haywood and PettSbone, president.
secretary and executive board member OF
the Western Federation Of Miners. who,
without an opportunity for defense IN the
courts of the state of Colorado, were prac-
tically kidnapped from that state and taken
to Idaho upon the charge Of completely In
the killing Of Ex-Governor Steunenberg OF
Idaho.
mo self-respecting, humane man can
have any sympathy either with killing or
the policy Of killing, whether OF high Of
flcial or one Of the submerged in the social
strata.
'sCivilization presumes the highest regard
for human life.
THE meanest man in all our country 10
Guaranteed rights which neither state nor
nation Is warranted in taking from him,
even though he be suspected OF or charged
with crime. Every man in our country 10
assumed to be innocent Of any crime until
he has been proven guilty and so pro-
nounced by a jury Of his peers; and until
Mover. HAYWOOD and Petttbone have been
proven guilty, after a fair and impartial
trial the law holds them innocent. Their
Is a crime against justice, liberty and the
rights of man.
THE practice and the law are that per-
son shall be protected by the government
Of the state in which he lives against pc
ing deprived of his life or his liberty with
out due process of law, either In MS own
state or handed over to the government o!
another state without an opportunity Oh
setting up even a preliminary de1ense' 80
as to show that he has the right 10 the
of
able demand Of another.
'All these safeguards guaranteed by law
were hagrantly d!sregarded, and Moyer,
HAYWOOD and Pettibore were surrendered
without a moments preparation or oppor-
tunfty to avail themselves OF their lawdui
rights and railroaded to an Idaho prison.
The approach Of the time of expiration
Of the existing agreement between the
Typothetae and the International Printing
Freshmen and Assistants Union Is giving
the printers and other branches or the al
lied printing trades some concern, as the
pressmen are very important factors In
the eight-hour day which 1t Is hoped to
inaugurate next year, II possible. In every
branch of the printing Industry.
At the recent meeting between the Doard
of directors of the Pressmen's Union and
the Typothetae committee held In Chicago
with view to the renewal or the present
agreement with the United Typothetae, to
also include the eight-hour day and the
abrogation of the open shop, President
Martin Higgins of the former organization
reported later that the eight-hour propo-
sit.on seemed to be within the scope OF
settlement, though the date of its inaugura-
ton was a question upon which the con-
tracing parties had as yet failed to arrive
at a satisfactory conclusion. The MEM
bership of the organization has, however,
been urged to prepare for any emergency
that may arise at the termination of the
present agreement with the Typothetae on
May 1, 1907. A hope is expressed that an
agreement may be reached without friction.
An agreement between the newspaper pub
fishers and the pressmen has already been
negotiated, the question Of submitting the
matter to the membership for ratification
being the only obstacle to conclusion at
this time.
Discussing the question, the current issue
of the Typographical Journal says: will
the pressmen stand pat? We do not at.
tempt to answer the question The Pitts
burg convention Of the International Print
ing Pressmen and Assistants Union went
on record for an eight-hour day. But there
Is a strong suspicion in the minds of many
pressmen that they will be made the VIC
Tins of a Compromise, under which the
United Typothetae will get everything it
asks, including the open shop. However,
we can at least continue to hope that our
sister organization will not lower its colors
with the eight-hour prize almost within
Its grasp a result that the eight-hour bait
tie fought by the International Typo
graphical Union has made possible Time
will tell"