The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-21
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PLANK AND BRYAN
WIN LABOR VOTE
Union Mass-meeting Declares
Emphatically for Demo.
cratic Candidates.

Organized labor men in this city came
out openly for the Democratic ticket
at a mass-meeting in MichePs hall, 66
South Orange avenue, last night, held
under the auspices of the State COM
mittee of the American Federation of
Labor.
1t was claimed by the speakers that
the Democratic party had inserted an
anti-injunction piank In its platform,
after the kepuDhcan party d re-
thai Wiliiam jennings Bryan had al
ways favored the interest Oh the work.
insnlen anu that Wiillain IL. Taft was
unIrlenuly. Congressman Joseph Can
non and X. wayne Parker were
charged as being Instrumental In lold-
ING up Inc eignL-nour Jaw IN the judi
ciaIy committee at the request OF the
corporations n trusts.
henry j. GotLloD, who presided, sal
that, as q RepuDlcan, he was a can
didate Tor Congress on the kepubucan
ticket TWO years ago, n that his de-
feat was due to -hepuoncans, as his
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iaDor.
1T is only on election day that the
Republican party has any use for the
worKingman," said Mr.. Gottiob, land
1t IL now our turn to show that party
that we have no use for It,"
No Longer the Party of Lincoln.
John h. Shirley, Of Chicago, who Is
a member of the order OF kaiiway Con-
ductors, was introduced, and In mis- re-
marks SAID hat he mad always been a
Republican until this year. as he had
peer leo to believe that his party was
sincere In Its protestations Of friendship
for The ~workingman.
1.-THE action OF the Republican con-
yentlon at Chicago said the speaker,
when 1t refused point-plank to insert
an anti-injunction pIank In Its plat
form, showed me very plainly that it
had entirely fallen away from the prin-
ciples of Abraham Lincoln.
II , as forced to seven my Affiliations
with the party which had been sup
ported by my grandfather and father
from it's infancy. i turned to the Demo-
cratic party because 1t did insert that
plank In its platform, and l am posi-
tive hat IL Mr.. Bryan Is elected he
will see that 1t Is carried out.
1--WE railway men want that promise
lived I'M to because we have suffered
enough from the drastic enforcement
Of injunctions, every time we have en-
deayored to improve our condition. We
want a Congress that will nae laws
for the people, and not for the few,
and we will get them, because we are
the people, and will not be fooled all
of the time, and the time to make
those changes Is at the present time"
Boston Labor Leaders, Views.
Henry J. S~keffington, of Boston, Mass,
a general organizer of the lnterna-
tional Union of Boot and Shoe Workers,
followed in a red-hot speech, Which
was repeatedly interrupted with ap-
plause. He said that Samuel Gompers,
the head of the American Fede alton
of Labor. was like Paul Revere of Rev.
dictionary fame, in that he was leading
in the fight for personal liberty for the
working people for today and years to
come.
Organized labor, the speaker said, had
gone on record as favoring the party
hat would protect the interests of the
people and not the class, and as the
Democratic party has shown a desire
to do so. 1t was the duty of every
labor man to support that party as
long as it did so. He said that labor
men had elected q Democratic Gov
ernor In Massachusetts, in 1906, when
the State gave a big majority for
Roosevelt, and he claimed that what
was lone in the old Bay State could
be done throughout h country. He
urged all present to put aside their
old party feelings and vote the ticket
that would give the most to the work.
ing people.
The speaker referred to Joseph Can
non, the speaker of the House of
Representatives, as the head of a gang
of thieves, who robbed the people for
the benefit of the trusts. He urged the
defeat Of r Wayne Parker for Con-
gress, because he was a member of the
committee that held up the eight-hour
bill In Congress, as it was not desired
by the trusts.
Samuel Gompers, it was announced,
would address a mass-meeting to be
held at Blaney's Theatre on Sunday
afternoon, November l.