Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-20
GOMPERS' IDEAS
ON lNJUNCTIONS
ARE SUSTAINED
COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS A
MORE DRASTIC STAND
CONVENTION AMENDS REPORT BY
MODIFICATION
Entire Day Given Up to Consideration
of Presidents Report--Labor
Leaders Prefer Jail
to Fines
Ccontinued from Page One)

certain words so the report shall read
as follows:
Whenever the courts issue an in
junction to regulate our personal reIa-
tons, we declare we will exercise al
the rights and privileges guaranteed
bv the constitution and laws OF our
country, and insist that it is our duty
to defend ourselves at all hazards, ana
recommend that such be our action,
taking whatever results ma follow.
Several other delegates discussed the
amendments, and Mr.. Furuseth closed
fbe discussion with a defense of the
committees report. His report and tue
Mitchell amendment were voted upon
together.
Amendment Adopted
A roll call was demanded = settle
the entire question. The amendments
were adopted, 11,272 to 1856.
The next section of the president
report referred to the political action
Of Mr.. Gompers and the executive
council durfnC the late presidential
campaign, under the caption: 'Leg1s-
lation and Political Action"
The report describes the actions OF
the president and executive council
along this line. The committee in It's
report Endorsed these actions.
The committee quoted three sections
from the report which it especially
commends.
The first saws: 1.-THE American labor
movement is not partisan to political
party; it is partisan to a principle oil
equal rights and human freedom"
The second quotation says:
Our conventions have frequently de-
clared that our movement has neither
the right nor the desire to dictate how
a member shall cast his vote. 1t has
been my privilege and honor always SO
TO insist. 1 have not departed and
cannot now depart from that true I'M
ion course. At the Minneapolis conVen-
ton the following declarations were
adopted: We must have with us in
our economic movement men of all par
ties as we'll as of all creeds, and the
minority right of the humblest man to
vote where he pleases and to worship
where his conscience dictates must be
sacredly guarded.
The committee in it's remarks on the
quotation says:
I'VE hold that this does not hold in
the case of an executive officer while
he remains as such. If he Is unable
to agree with this and must oppose
for conscientious reasons, any policy
the committee believes it is his right
and duty to resign his office"
This recommendation was aimed d.
rectly at Daniel J. Keefe, who as 9
member of the executive council, came
out in a public statement in support Of
W. H. Taft for president, after thu
council had declared in favor of w. ]
Bryan.
Prefers Socialism
The third quotation is the closinl
words of Mr.. Gompers on the politica
campaign, in which he says:
1T has been my purpose to place
before you the entire matter in con
nection with my participation in thu
campaign, whatever consequences i
may entail. l submit 1t to you for sucl
judgment as you may deem best Il
render and such action as you maj
care to take. / am deeply conscious
of this one fact, that | have endeaY
ored to give voice to the wrongs which
labor has endured and to which thu
toilers are subject. l have pleaded TO
the righting of these wrongs. ] haV'
pressed home to the fullest the suffer
ings and the injustice done my fellows
TO the very limit of whatever ability o.
power l may possess 1 have thrown /
into the scale Of the cause of my fellow
workers."
Max Hayes of the typographical un
ion objected TO the report of the com
mittee and argued that If the fedora
ton wanted to go into politics it woul'
be better for it to support the Social
istic party in preference to the Demo
cratic.
Several other delegates spoke in op
position to the committee report, blu
a vote was not reached when the con
vention adjourned until tomorrow
morning.