The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-06
AT AN OPEN MEETING OF TRADE s
COUNCIL LAST NIGHT.
BY WALKER AND lANGSTON
Were the Speakers-The Developmen nj
Of organzed Labor and Good Ad.
vice Was Given on Po.
litical Question


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Una" D" '''' '"' i''''' '' '''"N'P'''' was
the advice given union men last night
by General Organizer H. VI. Walker
of the American Federation OF Labor
In his address ON lnionism last night.
senate bin 81 \ aud u, Senate bill io6
aud Senate bill l'O that have passed
. the senate and are hung up IN the
house are important bills iaNorlns
union principles and should Dee passed.
House bill No. % rs also an important
measure before the legislative body
and should be passed, aud | advise ey.
cry one of you union men To write To
/ your representatives To see why those
| bills have been hung up and no action
taken. understand that the bills
/ above mentioned that were passed by
the senate aud are hung up In the
| house are being held up because
| Speaker Murray does not Ike the
author of the bill who Is In the sen
/ ate. IL is time for organized labor
/ to take some action to protect Itself.
| Every law that has been passed favor.
/ ing organized labor has been declared
/ unconstitutional, while every law that
favors capital even the law allowing
railroads to blacklist an employe has
been declared a good law.
Judging from the speech made by
Mr.. Walker last night union labor will
take an important part In politics
within the next few years TO see that
laws bcnehting organized labor are
passed. Both speakers last nignt,
Henry VI. Walker OF I'll Reno and j.
Luther Langston OF Oklahoma city
made strong union speeches. Mr.
lAngston's remarks were ON the
growth OF the state Federation Of La
Dor that Is to meet IN this city In
july and Mr. Walkers speech was on
the Dement'S OF organized labor. The
first speaker of the evening was j.
Luther Langston.
Mr. Langston said In part:
and treasurer of the Oklahoma State
Federation of Labor on August 20 OF
last year. and when / took hold only
twenty local unions were affiliated
with the central state body, and now
We nave lO6 unions ailillated. or the
twenty unions affiliated only one from
this city was In the number, now we
nave hve OF the local unions OF Ard
more Nhen we TOOK hold the state
, Federation was $3.50 IN debt, and we
endeaVored to build up the organiza'
ton ana wipe out the Indebtedness
On December J. We had grown a7i
seventy locals were aiiiliated a1' !he
organization was out OF debt and we
began to spend money to better the
conditions OF organized labor The
laboring man should work .or aud IN
the interest OF labor The la5oriaI
man should see that good bills intro
duced into the legislator" should D.
enacted into law. Just at this present
tme several important billi are De
fore the legislature that 5u 'uld be
made into laws. II DehHp'e' every
man VINO works to belong 10 e. un'tL
ana every local union shoull belong
to the local central body, the u .de'
Council or Trades Assembly, and eE
cry Trades Assembly should brioEl
to the state Federation. Az unior
men should stand together as unit
| ana vote together as unit and ~
should hght men VINO hght us an,
support men VINO support union pan
cIpIes' Laws Tor the beneht OF amor
labor arc generally decided as Delnl