The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-08-14
Labor Day Plans
Stir Up Quarrel
Union Men Object to Selection for
Orator Of Man Who Has Been
Declared "Unfair.''

Declared
There's row-no, not in Silver
..rsa--but in the ranks of organized
rohor and how it will come cut is the
question that many union men are
oslirg themselves today. And it all has
70 do with the Labor day celebration to
bo held in Walla Walla, Monday, Sep
tamber : 1908. The committee in
charge Of the celebration has. in the
,anouap. of some of the labor leaders,
mt its foot in it by inviting Congress
man Wesley L. Jones, strenuous sena-
torial candidate, to deliver one of the
addresses at the Labor day celebration.
The members of the committee say
that they thought nothing about the
an invitation to Senator Levi Ankeny
and Congressman Jones to make Labor
dav idresses here. Senator Ankeny,
il appears. had another engagement,
and that committee then extended an
invitation to William Goodyear, of Col
fax. the democratic candidate for con-
gressional hOnors, to fill the vacancy
The Colfax orator accepted. and the
committee thought that it had two big
headline features for the celebration.
The announcements of the speakers
was accordingly made. and then the
fun began.
SAYS He's "Unfair."
Local labor leaders and members of
unionioms rank and file invited the
attention of the committee to the in
congruity Of its position, in view of the
fact that the American Federation OF
Labor, with which the local trades
council is affiliated, has put the Yakima
congressman on the unfair" list.
Yielding to the temptation to become
asked the committee why it had not
also invited James Van Cleave and
Harrison Gray Otis. Van Cleave, any
good labor man can tell you, is the
head and front of the manufacturers
association which has declared formal
war on union labor. while Harrison
Gray otis prints the Los Angeles
Times, practically the only big daily
newspaper in the United States which
Is printed by non union labor
Some of the men insisted that for
labor day speaker, some man should
nave been selected who was in
thorough sympathy with the labor
movement, and they say that if Con-
.sressman Jones was such a man, Pres
laent Gompers, of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. wouldn't be fighting
MN, Some of them are also touchy
ABOUT the fact being circulated
throughout the state, on the eve of the
primary election. that Congressman
zones was the guest of the Walla Wal
Id trades council, fearing that labor
men in other communities viii not un-
uerStand the situation.
l. F. Clarke. president of the typo
saphlcal union and chairman of the
'Olhnhttee on arrangements for the
Ldoor day celebration, denied last
Nsht that his committee was trying to
pay politics. He said that the political
P"dSe OF the question had not been
'S'uered, and that While he believed
'''' II was generally understood that
'>ueht Gompers of the American
'ueFatlon of Labor was fighting Jones
NIX nation of this. although he said
1S mad written for it,
Wanted Big Crowd.
w We're merely anxious to get the
'eS' drawing cards we could for the
-ao0r Gay celebration" said Mr..
Ae -ast night. The trades council
'Pe''S 10 handle the concessions at
'7ce track, where the celebration
'e held, and we were naturally
- 1S 10 set as big a crowd out
"'5Fe as possible.
~ lar IS l know. there is absolute
~ "sAt among laboring men against
a.. Ahheny. We expected that he
Fessman Jones would both
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