The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1908-10-22

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present movement have announced
that they will accept in the matter Of
his grievance against the courts ON
the Injunction issue.
1.-The counsel for the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and Mr.. Gompers, it's
president, are on record to this effect
This bill, then, and none other,
represents exactly the relief that Mr..
Gompers demands in the way of anti
injunction legislation, and if the state
ment in his letter is correct, this bill
represents what Mr.. Bryan and his
anti-injunction legislation.
1.-THE Injunction plank In the Bry-
ante platform may sound vague and
hazy, but there is nothing vague and
hazy about this bill
ut Is more than a bill; 1t Is a pro.
gram Of the most fixed and dehnit0
kind. and IL Mr.. Gompers is correct,
this bill becomes, as it were. an apr
pendix to Mr.. Bryan's platform, or .
foot note explaining in detail the brief
er and wagner injunction plank in thAe
platform.
Does Mr.. Bryan accept 1t as such$
mr.. Bryan should state publicly
whether he in fact accepts tn princf-
pie of this bill, which Is the officist
program of Mr. Gompers and those
who stand with him
"Mr. Gompers announces publicly
that Mr.. Bryan's party has made this
program its own Is Mr.. Gompers cor
rect in this statement
EITHER Mr.. Gompers is mistaken -
to what Mr. Bryan's party has prom.
ised him in this matter of anti-injunc-
ton legislation, or those who drafted
his party's platform. In their haste
failed to make the promise so cless
that the general public would under
stand it precisely as Mr.. Gompers un-
derstood it.
MIR. Bryan failed in his letter Of
acceptance to discuss this labor plank
Of his party's platform So far as
am aware he has failed to discuss 10
since.
There should be such discussions
only to labor, but to all citizens alike.
On a question of such grave conse-
quence the people are entitled 70
know where Mr.. Bryan stands.
Mr.. Taft has repeatedly explained
exactly where he stands in this mat
ter of regulating injunctions.
Are we not entitled to know with
equal clearness exactly where Mr..
Bryan stands?"
The president at great length re-
views the subject of injunctions, ask
ing Mr. Bryan to explain his position
on several points, among the tques-
tons being the following:
Does Mr.. Bryan agree with Mr..
Gompers that all existing legal re-
straint on the enforcement Of every
degree of the boycott should be with
drawn; that the industrial excommun-
ication of the innocent merchant who
refuses to render unquestioned obed-
fence to the orders Of Mr.. Gompers
should be legalized and encouraged,
or does he believe with US, and with
Mr.. Mitchell and other labor leaders
who differ from Mr. Gompers in this
matter that this form of boycott Is
wrong, that labor at war should fight
with its enemies and respect the
rights Of neutrals, that innocent third
parties should not be coerced into TAX
ing sides in industrial disputes to
which they are in no sense parties,
under penalty of having their bust-
ness attacked and destroyed? Mr..
Taft is perfectly definite on this prop
osition. Where does Mr.. Bryan
stand?"
The letter was written to Senator
Knox as an endorsement of his views
expressed in recent speech at Phil
adelphia-