Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-29

As Labor day. 1908, Will occur little
more than one month prior to the presi-
Dental and congressional elections In the
states it is said by leaders of organized
labor that the holiday celebrations will
have more or less political significance
this year. In support of the foregoing
contention they point to the efforts that
are being made before Congress in con-
nection with pending labor legislation. to
recent injunction proceedings in state
and federal courts and to the open-shop
contest which is being waged in many
States
1t is declared that the coming Labor
day with its oratory and its conferences
and enthusia SIN will be made to mark an
important epoch in the annals of trades
unonism. That 1t may be employed as
a means to an end, as a prominent car
penter expressed 1t:
We will not allow the influence and
concrete force of the great Labor day
gatherings here and elsewhere to go to
waste on theoretical fanc1eS and lmpoS-
sible air castles.
Attention has been called to the Labor
day celebration to be held in the District
of Columbia by the action OF the Central
Labor Union of Washington at Its meet
ing last Monday evening In appointing us
Labor day committee.
Sam De Nedrey. secretary of the Gen.
trail body. was named as it's chairman.
His associate members are:
Milton Snelings of the Stationary En-
]. W. Considine of the Sheet Metal
Workers.
James l.. Feeney of the Bookbinders.
Emmett L. Adams of the Machinists
j. j. Purcell of the Brotherhood OF
Electrical Workers.
John B.. Colpoys of the Carpet Me-
chanics.
Already tentative plans >r the event
are being made. and Cha In De Nedrey
make it "a real object I~ssOn for all the
rest Of the country"
In connection with some Of the red LETT
ter Labor day celebrations that are being
talked of in labor circles. it Is said repre-
sentatives in Congress are receiving from
labor unions in their districts letters
which are in part as follows:
AT meeting of your constituents the
Enclosed resolutions were ordered sent to
you so that you may be properly and re-
liably advised as to the sentiments that
prevail among large proportion OF peo-
pie in your congressional district on some
economic and political questions. II not
settled quickly and to the complete salts
faction of the participants in this meet
ing further steps will be taken to make
these questions the paramount political
issue of 1908. Our people hope for and
to enact at the present session OF this
Congress the legislation set forth In the
inclosed resolution.
AS has been told, labor throughout the
country wants the Sherman law amended
so as to not include labor organizations
in its provisions. According to President
Gompers, when the Sherman law was en-
acted there was no idea of including labor
unions in it's provisions. and the unions
only came under the Sherman law
Through decisions of the United States
Supreme Court.
The Wilson bill. pending in Congress.
which amends the Sherman law. is said to
be satisfactory to labor organizations and
they want this bin passed.
Organized labor in the District. accord
ing to a leader. is opposed. not only to
the pending prohibition bill. but to the
committee OF the House recently, increas-
ing the license tax, extending the vote
getting area and establishing dry" zones
about the navy yard. the Washington
the cause of the objection. the labor
leader replied:
because. in the first place. it is class
legislation of the rankest kind. 1t favors
the localities of the affluent as against
those inhabited by the working classes.
Because the present license system is the
best in vogue anywhere. and to go to the
lengths proposed would mean persecution
pure and simple. And, again. there is no
demand for any such radicalism as is
proposed, nor is there any necessity for
1t. except it be an outcropping of spas
modic sentimentalism. Organized labor
will never stand for additional oppression.
whether it comes as restrictive legislation
or in any other FORM"
James A. Hogsette, the new public
printer for the Philippines. who succeed
ed John S. Leech, has many friends in
III t4I r-ff ~
in the government printing Office here
February Z. 1899. and resigned to go to
Manila. August 3. 1901. In speaking of