The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-31
TAFT USES
 HIS HAMMER On Both Gompers And
 Bryan. LABOR LEGISLATION PLANS Republican Standard Bearers Meet
 at Utica. yudge Taft Captured the Esteea of His Audience by FamillarIy speaking of His Colleague
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Buffalo, N. F.. Oct. 30.--Sledge-hann- mer blows at the Gompers.Bryan labor legislation plans were delivered here tonight by William H Taft before two immense audiences.
 sThe attempt of MT. Gompers," he de- clared. with great emphasis, ito de- liver the labor vote of this country, is as audacious an act of political ef- frontery as has ever occurred in the history of politics. It is most reas- suring to note that the men associated with MT. Gompers in the Executive Council of the Federation of Labor. are falling away from him in this eff fort of his to make the Federation of Labor a political factor.
 The man who decline to follow him are John Mitchell. Mir. James Dun can, First Vice-President of .re Amer fcan Federation of Labor; Mir. Oaniel Keene, head of the Longshoremen's Union; MT. w. D. Ryan, Secretary and Treasurer of the United Mine Work CTS; Mir. A. l.. Faulkner, President of the Window Glass Workers of America Claude Worth, Secretary and Treasurer of the International Dredge Workers Charles Mccarthy, Grand President of Tug Firemen and Linemen's Associa- ton; W. E. Fuller. President Elevator Employees; T. l. Dolan, International Secretary Steam Shovel and Dredge- men. and many others high in the councils of labor organizations.
 Tt is a struggle for political exist ence on the part of Mir. Gompers and he is willing to resort to every ex- treme method possible to secure suc- cess.''
 After asserting that the protective system was decidedly the most im- portant consideration for the American workmen, MT. Taft added:
 MT Gompers is willing to have a return of the conditions that existed in 1896. so eloquently described by him at that time If only he can secure what he regards as the proper legis- lation concerning injunctions. He pro- poses to abolish injunctions in indus- trial disputes where the injunction is issued to protect the business of a per son whose business Is injured by the 1awless acts of workingmen, and this by statute. He also proposes to legal ize the secondary boycott. although many trades unions have distinctly de- nounced the use of the secondary boy colt as an instrumentality in industrial disputes which Is unrepublican. un- American and which Is certain to re- act upon the user.
 President Roosevelt. in letter to Mir. Bryan, has inquired of him wheth- CT the Democratic platform is to be taken as favoring this plan of MT. dotnpers., which Mir. Gompers asserts to be the fact, saying that it was agreed between Mir. Gompers and ar Bryan that what the labor interests had been demanding from Congress should be a part of the Democratic platform, Mir Bryan has refused to answer Mir. Roosevelt's questions, and therefore, we may take 1t that he Is committed to Mir. Gomperss program
 Constitutional Legislation.
 After expressing the belief that the legislation which MT. Gompers pro- posed would be unconstitutional, Judge Taft continued:
 ''The charge that I ever sentenced 6 man without full hearing or made an order affecting his wages without