Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-01

Labor leaders and the rank and file OF
the organization the country over are
sitting up and taking notice.
Their gaze is directed toward Denver in
the west. where the hosts of democracy
are already assembling.
They have read the anti-injunction
plank adopted at Chicago and pondered
over it.
It has been analyz by President Com
pers and his cabinet of the American
Federation of Labor, and after the final
analysis they have declared that 1t has
been weighed in the balance and found
wanting II is their hope and eXpecta-
ton that the Denver convention will pro-
ducs an anti-injunction plank that is
good and strong" as Edward OLeary OF
the carpenters expressed it.
something" he explained. along the
lines laid down by Samuel .Gompers at his
hearing before the republican commlttee
on resolutions at the Chicago convention.
Labor will not accept subterfuge. Inc
Injunction plank must be to the point and
mean what Ii says. Federal courts must
be restricted in the matter Of One-man
writs We demand the right of trial by
jury and the complete elimination OF the
so-called government by injunction.
'Anti-injunctiOn' is to be the shiboo-
election day is over. Not only will II be
the shibboleth of organized labor, but OF
all fair-minded people who are not under
the domination of the trusts and big cor
porations."
What if the democrats do not give you
a satisfactory anti-injunction plank!
O'Leary was asked.
"A third party ticket may be quickly
launched, and then-watch results.
Sam De Nedrey and John ]. Purcell OF
this city, labor leaders and regular dele
gates from the District of Columbia 10
the democratic convention at Denver, are
now in the convention city. Advices re-
ceived here last night are to the effect
that they stopped over at Lincoln, had an
multiplication chat with William Jen-
nings Bryan and in consequence are as
happy as clans at high tide. 1t was
also stated incidentally that they are as
silent as clans concerning the tenor or
their talk with 1.-The colonel"
While Sam De Nedrey was conversing
with Mr. Bryan he is said to have re-
on the republican presidential ticket were
either soldiers or sailors, and there was.
therefore. nothing particular In the ticket
to appeal to the soldier vote next fall
I'm the last campaign" Editor De Ned
rey said, lit was Col. Teddy Roosevelt
and the Rough Riders. But there were
other colonies just as there were other
regiments in the Spanish American war
does d.
manding the 1st Regiment Nebraska Vol
unteer Infantry, strike you?'
Much attention has been attracted by a
paper on Labor Problems and the Poll
cy of Incorporating Unions" which was
read by Don c. Seitz of New York recent
ly before a business mems conference in
Chicago. In part he said:
ut seems to me that success has spoil
ed both capital and labor and changed
Ill 70 hn hnn oiol and
beneficent into extortion and oppression.
For the labor organization as a business
institution I have entire respect. but it
seems to me that the unions are fast
going beyond it and demanding the priv
ileges that are denied others because they
represent organized labor.
There should be no strikes. and
whether they succeed or fail they spell
disaster | believe it is always possible
to win a Just cause by agitation. The
corporation that is dealing with the pub
lie cannot afford tn be unfair when the
facts are widely known. When bust
ness agent undertakes to act for an en-
ployer as a representative he must stand
to certain extent, between the en-
ployer and the union. and if the agent is
honest this is an advantage. Personally
in long experience with business agents
/ never detected the slightest effort at
personal advantage A responsible cor
poration well managed and financially
strong is benefit to the community. A
labor union Incorporated. conservative
and Industrious. and whose main object
II should be to see that its members are
competent, is an equal benefit to the
community"
When it was decided that the California
State Federation of Labor was to hold its
annual session in Vallejo Cal, the board
of city trustees donated $50 to the
unions fund to entertain officers and
delegates. Since the adjournment and the
setting up of the bills and accounts the
Vallejo Trades and Labor Council dis
covered that out of the money contributed
by the unions there was still balance
consequently there was no occasion to
use the money contributed by the city.
SO the money was returned to the city
treasury with note of thanks to the city
trustees.
The Montana sixteen-hour law for rail-
way employees in the train service was