The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-22

Federation of Labor Speaking at Philadelphia on Tuesday Senator Knox took issue with Mir. Gompers on the question of the attitude of organized labor in the present. campaign and tho presidents letter of to-day is In ' support of Mir KnoX's views. Mr. Roosevelt says;
 Tho Presidents Letter.
 White House, oct. o1, 1908 . My dear Senator Knox
 In Your admirable speech of ycstcr- | Jay you speak of tho action Of Mir. Bryan and certain gentlemen claiming to be the special representatives of or. ganized labor foremost among them Mr. Gompcrs. to secure tho support of laboring mon for NIr. Bryan on con sideration of his agreement to per- form certain acts noninaIly in the iu- terest of organize labor, whicn would really bc either wholly ineffective or else of widespread injury not only to organized labor but to all decent cit izens throughout this country
 The daily papers of October 1% con- tain an open letter from Mir, Samuel Gompcrs, president of tho American Federation of Labor appealing to Norldngmen to vote for MT Brtan
 His words age;
 "Labor's representatives went to tho democratic party That party made abor's contentious it's own. It pledg ed its candidates for every office to hosc remedies which labor had sl- ready submitted to congress,
 His statement HOW makes perfectly lear cll important plank in the Bry- bnio platform which has heretofore kecmeJ puSzling to 2 vast number of Earncst-mlnded thinking people,
 That plank read as follows: "Ques- ions of judicial practice have arisen specially in connection with Industrlsl isputes, We deem that the parties to ll judicial proceedings should he rcated with impsrtialty, and that in unetions should not be issued in any ase in which injunction would not ssue if no industrial dispute were in oyed."
 This is the plank that promises the remedy" against niunetions vhi'h IT, Gompers asked of Mir Bryan's arty, In actual fact, 1t means ab blutely nothing, no change of tho law ould be based on it, no man without lSide knowledge could forctel what $ neanine would turn out to be- for o man could foretoll how any Judge ould decide in any given case, as tho lank apparently leaves each judge Fee to say when he issues an iniunc- on in 4 labor ease whether or moi it q case in which ar injunction would sue if labor Wero not involved Ycl lls pauk is apparently perfectly clcai Mir. Gompers, and in his letter tr s followers he indicates beyond dues lon just what he understands it tc can He asserts that he has tho rauisito insidc Knowledge His state cnt that MT Bryan's party Cfor [ las Mir Bryan who dictated thc plat |Rrm pledged itself "to hose remedies Vbich labor had already submitted tC bngrcss' is perfectly clear nut hdnitc statement
 ''rhe "remcdies' which Mr. Golnperi ts already submitted to congress art Eaters of record, and the identiltca bn of his remedy against iniuuc pus in labor disputes is easy anC rtain This "remcdy' is embodied il souse bill No 54 of the first session o lo Sixtioth congress, the complete tex which is hereto appended,
 srhe gist of tho bill, us can be seel
 referring to the complete text il lis
 tTirst After forbldding any fedora dge to issue q restraining order fo
 injunction in any labor dispute cX ,pt to prevent irreparablc injury {, 'opcrty or property right, 1t specific Ey puvIdos that to carry on bushes any particular kind. or at any par ,ular place, or at all, shall be con ;uod, held, considered, or treated a ilporty or as constituting propert, Eht
 HSecond. It provides that nothing .reed upon or done by two or nor rtjes in connection with a labor dis lite shall constitute a conspiracy 0 her criminal offcnsc or be prescott
 as such unless the thing agree, ,ou or donc would be unlawful i ne by q single individual,
 At q hearing before the house com t.ec on judiciary, the counsel fo VI American Federation of Labor, ol .bruarr ], 1908, as appears from tn ,intod hearlngs) stated The bill lS considered by at least two ses ms of the executive council of tha Eanl1ation and unanimously ap hbved II was considered by two 0 national conVeutions---.th two lat i~-and by these unanimously er tsed And In the fact of many prop lions to amend it in the face 0 NlnH proposed substitutes, in face 0
 ssurc, from every direction, iron h sources and sources not so cX hd the organization has stood by ! is to-day standing hy, this bll nhout amendment
 This bill then, and uone other, rep lnts exactly tho relief that Mir lnpors demands in the way of anti
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