Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-16
LIES AGAINST
LABOR ENDORSED
BY SHERMAN
PERMITS TRUST MAGNATE TO
TRADUCE UNIONS
TAFT's RUNNING MATE INJURIES
REPUBLICAN CAUSE
While Presidential Candidate Seeks
Votes of Workingmen, Seeker
for Second Place Takes
Opposite Course
Especial to The Herald !

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Oct. 15.-While VIII
I liam H. Taft Is travelling about
~ Ohio and elsewhere making fran
tic appeals for the support Of laborlng
men, his running mate on the Republl-
can ticket, James S. Sherman, is giving
his Endorsement to the statement that
labor unions are composed largely OF
anarchists socialists and demagogues.
Mr. Sherman heard the organized
wage workers of the country thus de-
nounced by trust magnate who pre-
sided at a meeting where he spoke, and
gave approval to the sentiment eX-
pressed. When Mr.. Sherman appeared
recently at Akron, Ohio, the meeting
which he addressed was presided over
by o. C. Barber, the president of the
Diamond Match trust
Mr.. Barber introduced Mr.. sherman
to the audience. In doing so, he made
use of the following language, as stem
ographically reported:
I'm our plant at Barberton $50 en-
ployes are today producing as many
matches as 5000 men did in thirty-s six
factories a score of years ago, when
the corporation was formed. Each sue
ceeding year in the history of the or
ganization more money has been made,
Although the cost of raw material and
labor has been increased, labor saving
devices and increased demands have
made the earnings of the corporation
greater.
To-day our Barberton plant produces
60 per cent more matches than all the
factories combined at the time or the
combination.
zone of the main reasons for the sue
cess of the Diamond Match company is
that its directors have never tolerated
union labor in its shops. They have
always been open.
I'VE have had no one to dictate to us
what wages we shall pay, what men we
shall hire, and what hours our employees
shall work. -
Calls MonopoIlsts Benefactors
Labor unions today are composed
| largely of anarchists, socialists ano
demagogues. 1t is not the monopolists
that stand against the advancement OF
the country; they are the public bene-
factors They are responsible for the
advancement of the wages. We near
much about the classes and the masses.
The greatest number of organized Ia
borers Samuel Gompers ever had under
him was 100000 men:
This is "a country of S0,00O,OO0 or
people, The union men are therefore
the classes and the remainder are the
masses. And 1t is these classes that
are the real tyrants of the country.
They resort to violence to gain their
end. And they always cling TO violent
principles"
This was the speech of Mr. Barbour,
president of the match trust, introduce
ing the Republican candidate for vice
president. Mr.. Sherman sat beside the
trust magnate and listened attenttveiy
to his denunciation of organized labor
and his laudation of combinations and
the open shop.
He heard union men characterized as
anarchists socialists and demagogues.
He heard union men called tyrants and
monopolists termed benefactors. He
sat by and gave his full approval to
these sentiments. When he arose tc
speak he uttered not a single word IN
protest against the slanderous state
ments of the mighty trust magnate.
BY his silence upon the subject he
gave full approval to what Mr.. Barber
said. At the same time Mr.. Taft was
travelling about the country appealing
to union labor to support the Republi-
can ticket.