The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-10-31
MANY LEADERS
QUIT G0MPtRS
TAFT GIVES LIST OF A. r. or L.
OFF. ,ERs ALLEGED TO BE
DESERVING HIS CAUSE.
MITCHELL AMONG THEM
Candidate Says President compers Is
Undertaking to Deliver Labors
Vote TO The Democratic
Ticket.

1 Buffalo, ~ w. Oct. 30 Sledge ham
,mer blows at the Gompers- Bryan III
Dor legislation plans were delivered
here tonight by Tan before two i'm.
imense audiences. Taft gave the names
of many labor leaders nigh in tae
councils Of the American Federation
iof Labor, who he said were leaving
Gompers
The attempt of GomDers." he de
clared with great emphasis. TO delig.
err the labor vote of this country is az
audacious an act OF political affrout-
cry as has ever occurred in the his.
tory of politics 1t is most reassuring
to note that the mex associated with
Gompers in the executive council OF
the Federation Of Labor are falling
away from him in this effort of his to
make the Federation of Labor a polit-
cal factor.
The men who decline TO follow him
are John Mitchell and James Dun-
can, first vice president Of the Amegi-
can Federation Of Labor, na9icl
Keefe the head ef the l.oagshof
mems Union w. d. Ryan, SO rgt ~
and treasurer Of the United Nine
Workers; A. l.. Faulkner president 1f
the Window Glass Workers OF Amer
lea; Claude Worth, secretary treasurer
of the International Dredge Workers;
Charles Mccarthy grand president OF
the Tug Firemen and Linemen's Asso-
citation: w E. Fuller, or the Elevator
Employees; r J. polan. international
secretary CT the Steam Saopel SD
Dredgemen, and many others high Ia
the councils Of labor organizations. 4
is struggle for polliIcai existence on
the part of Gompers and he is willing
TO resort to every extreme method
possible TO secure success
After asserting that the protective
system was decidedly the mcst inn
portant consideration for the Amer'-
can workmen, Taft added;
"Gompers. however. has so commit
ted himself on one subject with refe~
ence 10 labor that he Is willing -
sacrifice every other consideration,
however important and material II
The welfare OF the wage earners. He
is willing 60 have the return Of cond
tious that existed IN 1896, so elo-
luently by him at that time, if only
he can secure what he regards as
proper legislation concerning iniunc-
tions He proposed TO abolish iu-
functions in Industrial disputes wherc
ma Injunction is issued TO protect
The business OF a person whose bus.-
ness is injured by the lawless acts
lf the workingmen, and this by stat
lte He also proposes TO legalize the
secondary boycott. although many
mions have distinctly renounced tho
use Of the secondary boycott as an in-
stumentality In Industrial disputes
which is un-Republican, un-Americaa
and certain to react upon the users as
, boomerang with disastrous effect
President Roosevelt in letter 90
Bryan has inquired Of him whether
.he Democratic platform is 60 be- tax
sn as fayoriug this plan of Gompers.
ehich G0mpors asserts 90 be a fact
aging 90 was agreed between Com
Jers and Bryan that what labor ia-
erssis had been demanding from con
grcss should Dee part OF the Demo
.ratic platform. Bryan has refused O.
.n-Wor RoCseyelts questions and
herefore We may take 10 that he is
oum.ttpI 10 the Gompers program