Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-27
al of the American Federation

/ Osborne Wards book "Ancfent J,owIv
Governor Conner, the leader of tI,e
democratic Bryan machine in Ala
Dana, first ordered the state militia
into the strike district to help tho
/ mine owners defeat the United Mine
/ Workers of America. When the strik-
Ing miners and their poor wives and
! innocent children were eyicted from
the company houses the United Mine
/ workers. organization bravely came
to the rescue Of the suffering families
by establishing strike camps and pro-
viding them with shelter and food
This enraged the mine owners: thew
again appealed to their democratic
governor, Gomez, who. without mo-.
ments delay, declared the camps of
the striking miners "unsanitary" and
ordered them Immediately removed.
This settled the strike. With the
entire democratic state government ar
raigned against the strike, the contin-
uation Of the struggle would have
meant despair and bloodshed. because
Governor Corners last order even pro-
hibited the United Mine Workers of
America from providing the striking
miners and their families with shelter
and food.
Where was President Gompers of the
A. f. Of l.. D. during the last two
months? What did he do to help the
Alabama miners? Gompers helped to
defeat them by his democratic Bryan
lickspitting. Governor Conner could
proudly claim that he had Bryan and
Gompers on his side, and that neither
of these gentlemen stood for FARLEY
A 1x,v
strike outrages."
Shame upon the editor of the Amer
loan Federationst, that he did not see
fit to write one line in behalf of the
Alabama coal miners! Neither the
August nor the September issue Of
Mr.. Gompers' organ contains an edi-
torial mention OF one Of the most
justified strikes and one Of the most
bitter labor wars in the south.
May the democratic and Bryan I'm
ion Labor club pass votes OF thanks
to Messrs. Gompers, Bryan & Co. for
the mobile work" they have failed to
do In behalf Of the Alabama miners.
Georgia's sickening convict-lease
scandal is substantially ended. After
a most exciting struggle the legisla-
ture has passed a law providing that
the convicts shall be turned over to
counties and municipalities that may
apply to them for work upon the roads,
public buildings and the like. But
it is said that there will be none
left over, since already ninety-si
counties have applied for convict la
Dor for road making They will pay
the state simply the cost Of maintep
ance. The convict-lease system so
long maintained by the democracy OF
Georgia has not only been unutterable
ranking with the worst OF
Russia or Turkey, but it has been ex----
corrupting in state politics.
In Vicksburg. Miss, they use the
vagrant lazy to make union men "scab"
On each other. When the dock workers
Ind boat hands struck on the river
hey would not work under the condi
ions offered by the boat owners and
after they had been on strike a few
lays, this law was applied to them.
Ealing honest men on strike "vags."
md giving them a chance to go back
% work under intolerable conditions or
he chain gang. Some of them took
he chain gang. Others. lacking back
,one went back to work.
Compare the labor conditions in the
south with those Of the re-
publican north and let the good, i'm
PARTIAL Judgment of the voters seek it's
hoice.
These are the conditions you advo-
ate, Mr.. Gompers, when you ask or
.anized labor to vote for democracy.
No! The honest, thinking union men
f this country will never support de-
aocracy against the party which will
ontinue the prosperity Of this coun
ry The memories of '93 and '94 are
90 fresh in the minds Of the workers
or them to ever chance another regime
f democracy. You would better by
ar organize the south under the ban
er Of Down with Democracy" This
8 the age of thinking working men
nd they will march to the polls on
Tow. 3 in a body and defeat for all
ime to come, and forever the vote
atching schemes Of emocracy.
Mac.