The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-06-17
AGREEMENT REACHED
ON SIX PLANKS

CHICAGO, June 17.-When the sub.
committee OF the resolutions commit
tee adjourned at 1880 this morning.
agreement had be- reached on These
| planks:
The tariff.
| The railroads.
Trust regulation.
Labor injunetions.
Currency.
Tho Negroes.
Labor and it's demands are stagger-
ing today. under second blow from
the Republican national convention
when Samuel Gompers, president of
the American Federation Of Labor.
was distinctly snubbed by Chairman
Hopkins. OF the resolutions commit
tee.
President Gompers had been advised
by telephone that the committee
would be ready to receive him and
hear his demands In behalf OF his
constituents at $3.50 o'clock at night.
hut when Mr. Gompers arrived at the
Annex, where the committee was sit.
ting. he was met at the door by Sen.
ator Hopkins and informed that q
quorum was not present.
II suggest that you come again
some time tomorrow. Mr.. Gompers."
said Mr.. Hopkins. Unfortunately we
have no quorum now and are In NO
position to consider your requests"
This blow followed that delivered
by Senator Burrows in his keynote"
speech when he declared that no in
reference with the Injunction pow.
ere OF the courts would be brooked.
Senator Hopkins committee. ear
ller In the day, had received President
p II. Morrissey, OF the Brotherhood
OF Railway Trainmen. together with
Atty. Fulton. who represents their In
terests, despite the fact that prom
ise previously had been made to Pres
ident Gompers that his organization
should have the first hearing on the
building OF the labor planks Of the
platform.
Bitter Feeling Prevails.
long wrangle about the antin-
junction plank took place. There Is
no doubt but that the bitterest fight
OF the convention will be over this
plank. There is the bitterest kind OF
feeling and Speaker Cannon Is lead
ing the anti-injunction fight.
The contemptuous treatment accord
ed their representative was bitterly
resented today, by members OF the ex-
ecutive council OF the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor at the Kaiserhof
Mr.. Gompers himself was greatly agi
tated as he told Of the reception that
had been accorded him. At the later
conferences, at which the representa-
tives OF the Brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen were present, the adoption
OF an anti-intunction plank was urged
Practically the same demand In this
regard was made as that urged by the
federation. Especial stress was laid
by Atty. Fuller upon the possibility of
contempt proceedings and II was
urged that plank be inserted into the
Republican platform. providing that
an order for contempt should not issue
except In cases where the contempt
had been committed In open court
or sufficiently near to interrupt the
proper processes of the court.
Unions velIsd Threats.
With this argument for plank
abolishing injunction, came yelled
threats as to the penalty OF refusing
solid labor vote against the party.
Women who'd emanded the right to
vote packed the committee room at
one stage OF the hearing. Mrs. Helen
NJ. Henrotin and Miss Jane Adams
led the argument for plank which
would urge the several states to
adopt suffrage for women.
The full committee OF one member
from each state and territory met at
4 o'clock under the chairmanship of
Senator Hopkins, OF Illinois.