Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-05-02
LABOR UNIONS
Are Hot After President Rooss-
veit For What He Said
About Meyer, Haywood and Petit.
bone, Miners Who Are Charged
With Murder Out I'm Idaho.

With Murder Out I'm Idaho.
The committee, consisting Of dele
gates Brown, Abrahams and Henry
appointed by the New York Central
Federated Union to call upon Presi
dent Roosevelt in relation to the lat.
ter's attitude toward Meyer, Hay.
wood and Pettibone, instead Of leav.
ing for Washington. as expected. de.
cided to abandon their mission.
| Secretary Bohm, OF the c. F.. L.,
| teiegraphed to the presitent, from
New York inQuiring as to a conyen.
lent time at which he would receive
the committee. Private secretary
Leob explained that the president did
| not desire to see the committee per-
sonally, but suggested that the c.. F.
| U. sent to him in writing anything
they wished to communicate on the
Moyer-Haywood matter.
In this telegram Secretary Bohm
stated that some time ago he had
| written a letter to the president. in
which the sentiments and desires of
the G. F. u. had been expressed and
that no answer had been received.
No reply has been received to this
last telegram sent by Secretary Bohm
Members of the G. F. u, who knew
OF the kilograms that passed between
Secretaries Balm and Leob, that the
president expects his letter to the
chicago federation, to he accepted
as reply to the queries and criti-
cisms OF the c. +. u. also.
In commenting upon the presidents
published letter. prominent New York
labor men said Thursday that he had
overlooked the main point in the pro-
test OF organized labor. There would
not have been the great agitation by
organized labor on the Moyer-Hay-
wood case. If 1t had not been for the
lawless manner of the arrest and de-
portation of the accused men. Labor
would have naised no protest against
the arrest and trial If the constituted
authorities had shown proper re-
spect for the legal rights of the ac-
cused at the time of their arrest
The belief of the working men OF
the country is that President Rose
welt and those in whom he conflded
shut their eyes to the known facts
and not only sanctioned the kidnap-
ing of Meyer. Haywood and Petit
bone, but refused them the redress to
which they. as citizens. were entitled.
Sixty thousand members of or
ganized labor In New York City will
parade on May 4 as a public rebuke
to President Roosevelt for his sec
ond attack on Meyer and Haywood
The Central Federated Union has
accepted the invitation OF the Moyer
and Haywood protest conference COM
mittee, to parade and 1t will take
part in the great demonstration.
Labor meetings were held through
out the city and at all of them the
action of President Roosevelt was de-
| nounced and the decision taken to
parade on May in honor of Meyer
| and Haywood, and as rebuke to
| Roosevelt. Every organization that
met. instructed its delegates to the
G. F. u. to present their views at the
| regular meeting of the union next
| Sunday.
In nearly all the big cities of the
country similar labor meetings were
held, and the action of President
| Roosevelt denounced. Labor lead
ers in Boston; Chicago. Pittsburg,
Cleveland, Cincinnati and Milwaukee
were outspoken. in their criticism of
the president. A dispatch from Mil
waukee states that the labor leaders
there have launched a plan for set
ting aside a day In May when work
will he suspended and a demonstra-
tion held throughout the country, as
a protest against the position OF the
president. In Chicago a call was
issued for a public. meeting of pro-
Park.