Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-10-10
Bryan as a "Friend" Of Labor.


Ir his attempt to bamboozle the
union laboring men of the country
into voting for him, Mr.. Bryan is find
ing many thcrns in his pathway. No
clearer exposure or more vigorous de-
nunciation of his insincerity in posing
as the friend of labor has appeared
than is found in the columns of the
Labor World, non-partisan union
labor publication at Pittsburg, Penn.
The Labor World notes, as exceeding
ly important is the campaign. chow
the utter and braZen sham of the pro-
fessei friendship of Bryan and the
Democratic party for labor is being
relentessly exposed. During the last
few days the veil has certainly been
torn asunder, and Bryan and his plat
form maker. Haskell. have been thor
oughly exposed to the world"
The Labor World declares that it is
amazing to find that "amid all of the
vehement professions of the bittereSt
opposition to corporations and trusts
by w. J. Bryan and the treasurer of
his campaign. they have for years
been clandestinely. heart and soul, aid
Oil Company" 1t goes on to declare:
cit would be absolutely absurd to ex-
pect that persons of the type named
would in any manner or form deal
justly or even favorably toward labor
if they were placed in power
Mr. Bryan, the Labor World declares
has record as friend of labor which
is based on mere talk and on sudden
shiftings of position to accommodate
his political necessities. He has "es-
poused all shades and angles of the
great labor question: but he has never
done anything and has never tried to
do anything for the organized wage
Garner. He is asked why, if he loves
love them, he does not exert his infiu-
ence at least upon the Democratic
Governor of Alabama, who is charged
with using all his official power to
crush the labor organizations in his
state? Why his Democratic allies
Mississippi are doing the same thing
without protest from him? And. the
Labor World continues:
rs it not fact that your intimate
friend, Governor Haskell. national
treasurer of the Democratic party, was
the first president of the Muskogee
Citizens Alliance, "a secret organiza-
ton existing for the sole purpose of
opposing trades unionism and boycott
ting union men?
rs it not d fact that Mr.. Haskell,
as president Of the Citizens Alliance of
Muskogee. sent out over his own sig
| nature d resolution calling upon men,
bers of another union-hating associa-
ton to bind themselves to discrimi-
nate against any and all labor union
and to boycott all union men
as it not fact that the worst in
functions against organized labor ever
issued by the courts of the country
have come. many of them. from Demo-
cratic Judges. such as Justice Free
mans injunction in 1900 against the In
ternH tional Cigar Makers Union, en-
joining them for even approaching
their employers to seek a peaceable
settlement and from publishing their
grievances; Justice I3ookstaver's in
junction against the international
Typogra phicaI Union, etc. p"
No stronger indictment of the way
in which the Bryan party is trying to
play politics. with the labor question
has been drawn by the most rabid Re-
publican than is now being drawn all
over the country by non-partisan un-
ion labor publications and workers.
There is slim prospect indeed that
Bryan will fool the intelligent working
men into voting against their own in
tereStS
No Poor Man Votes in Georgia.