Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-10-24
RANKIN SEES
BRYAN TRICkERy
MouLDER oRAToRY HOLDS DEM
ocRATIc CANDIDATE TO BE
FOE OF UNIONS.

| Chicago. Oct. 23.-More evidence OF
William Jennings Bryan's hypocrisy in
his attitude toward organized labor
was made public yesterday through the
! republican national committee by A.
e. Rankin. an honorable member Of the
Iron Moulders' union and former treas
urer of the Federation Of Trade and
Labor Unions. Mr.. Rankin calls atten-
ton to the refusal of the candidate to
give his journal, the Commoner, a
union label. and points GU the trick
cry OF phraseology of the democratic
anti-injunction plank, which gives
Workingmen no protection not enjoyed
at present.
Union men. why does not Mr.. Bry-
an print the union label on his paper,
the Commoner?' demands Mr.. Rankin.
lie has been requested by resolution
OF various unions to do SO. and has not
given to the public his reason, for re-
fusing to do SO. There must be some
oYerpower1ng reason for his not grant
ing the unions this simple and fair
recognition Of their cause. Practically
all the newspapers in the country that
employ union printers have the union
label conspicuously displayed. But you
will look in vain for the union label in
the Commoner, even on a single adver-
tisement In it.
SSSS aAScoSb LILO SouIVs
NO union man need be deceived as
to why Bryan barred the union label
from the pages Of his paper. He has
152 electoral votes chalked up on his
blackboard from the black or solid
Democratic states in the solid
south The Commoner has a large
circulation all over the south.
In these southern Democratic states
| few labor laws have been passed
Wealthy EMPLOYERS in these states are
extremely hostile to labor unions and
are doing all they can to prevent the
| organization Of unions and to stamp
out those now organized Mr.. Bryan
| fears to print the union label at the
head Of his editorial columns least it
would mean an unforgivable affront to
the anti-union sentiment that prevails
in the controlling Democratic element
| all over the southern states"
| ti-Injunetion Plank.
Then. quoting the Democratic anti
injunction plank and Bryan's interpre-
tation of it, Mr.. Rankin adds:
We are certainly grateful to Mr.
Bryan for his injunction plank, OF
which the labor union men are asked
to vote for him. Mr.. Bryans interpre.
tation of that injunction plank is the
law on injunctions today, and has beer
the law for 100 wears.
| Union men. do not ask you to take
my statement, but go to any reliable
attorney or judge and show hin
Bryan's interpretations, and see if h,
does not say that / am substantial,
correct II Mr.. Bryan had written tina
Interpretation into his platform h
would have received no more indorse.
ment than the Republicans. This ex.
PLANTATION of Bryan is in itself an in
dorsement of congress In refusing t.
change the law.
1--WE now see why the Republican,
rejected that plank There was n
hypocrisy about their action. The Re
publican plank has far more in it 70
trade unions than the Democrat
plank, since Bryan has spoken on tn
subject, and his exclamation leaves n
justif1able ground for Republican uniol
men to vote for him because Of hi
attitude on in1unctions.
Such a trickster and moral coward
Mr.. Rankin asserts. could not be trust
ed to deal fairly with organized labo
should he be elected president.