The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1908-10-22
LABOR DECLINES
CAMPAIGN GOLD BRICK
Cannot Be Deceived Into Voting for
Bryan and His Hollow
Promises.
The Democratic Candidate Ignores
Pointed Questions Regarding the
Deeds of His Party Towards Or
ganized Labor and Representative
UniOnfsts DenOunce Him.

and the Democratic party for labor is
being relentlessly exposed. During the
last few weeks the veil has been torn
asunder and Bryan and his platform
maker, Haskell, have been thoroughly
exposed to the world.
THAT Bryan's record as a :'friend
Of labor is the f1imsiest of all public
men in this line there can be no posi-
BILE doubt" declares The Labor World
Of Pittsburg. "He has never been any
thing else than a talHer and he has
talked so much that he has eSpOused
all shades and angles of the great Ia
Dor question without performing sin
gle act in the interests of the wage
worker. He is just the same Bryan
to-day that he ever was and the other
night in New York when asked to deny
that he ever made the statement that
American working men were public
beggarS he refused to answer it. He
made the statement when fighting in
Congress against the demands of the
ulass Workers Union.
Bryan Does Not Answer Questions.
"a number of the most direct and
important questions on his attitude to-
ward labOrS real interest have been
submitted to Bryan and so far he has
not condescended from his pedestal to
offer a definite reply. He has been
asked: Are you aware of the fact. that
since your nomination., and your in
dorsement by the executive officers of
the American Federation of Labor, the
governor Of Alabama, one of your
friends and allies has used his power
to crush the labor organizations in
that State, placing troops at the dis
posal of the mine owners, and will
you, now that the matter has been thus
brought to your attention, publicly re-
pudiate and condemn Governor Co
mer's hostility to organized labor? This
is by all means a most vital question
to every trade unionist in the country
who intends to vote next November.
THE following questions have also
been submitted to him:
els it not fact that at the present
time, in the State of Mississippi, i'll
the city of Vicksburg, to be exact. the
members of the unions concerned with
the river shipping are on strike, and
that the Democratic administration of
that city is trying to break the strike
by sending honest. law-abiding strik
% 70 ln (,lael i'm
gang"
Assuming that you are ignorant of
these facts at present, will you not, as
leader of the Democratic party, make
immediate inquiries upon the matter,
and if you find the facts to be as
stated, will you openly and unequivO-
cally condemn the Democrats of Mis-
sissippi who are responsible for those
conditions and repudiate them?
Haskell the Union Buster.
"Is it not fact that your intimate
friend, Ex-Governor Haskell, national
treasurer of the Democratic party
(now resigned) was the first presi
dent of the Muskogee Citizens Alliance,
a secret organization patterned after
the Citizens Alliances of Messrs.
Parry and Post, and existing for the
sole purpose of opposing trades union
ism and boycotting union men. so that
every cent which a union or member of
a union give to your campaign is sent
to one of the most notorious and big
oted union haterS in America?
"Is it not a fact that Mr.. Haskell,
as president of the Citizens Alliance of
Muskogee. sent out over his own sig
nature a resolution calling upon MEM
bers of the Business Mems Alliance
{another 'union-hating association to
bind themselves Ito discriminate
against any and all labor union men,
ito check the contemplate
fanaticism of trades unionism."
and to boycott all union men?
els it not fact that the worst in
functions against organized labor ever
issued by the courts of this country
have come. many of them, from Dem
ocratic judges, such as Justice Free
mans Injunction in 1900 against the
International Cigar Makers Union, en-
joining them from even approaching
their employers to seek a peaceable
settlement, and from publishing their
grievances Justice BOokstavers in
junction against the members of the
International Typographical Union in
their strike against the New York
"Sun," enjoining them from publish
ing their side Of the controversy, and
Justice Gildersleeve's injunction