Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-23
ALTHOUGH ENDORSING HEADS
OF TICKET STATE coNvEN.
TloN ADOPTS RESOLUTION
SUSTAINING.
GOMPERS ASSAILS
REPUBLICAN PLANK
HEAD OF LABOR FEDERATION AL
LEGEs TRIckERY IN iNcoRPo-
RATING ANTI-INJuNcTIoN
CLAUSE TO PLATFORM.

Harrisburg, Pa, July %. The
Democratic state committee today re-
elected state chairman George M.
Dimeling without opposition and adop-
ted resolutions endorsing Bryan and
Kern, but denouncing the action of
the Denver convention in unseating
eight Philadelphia delegates as .un-
just, unwarranted and against all par
)iamentary practice and precedent"
Continuing, the resolution says:
Guffey Sustained.
.We assert as our belief that the
only cause for such action was the
prearranged determination to oust
from the Democratic national COM
mittee the Hon. James M. Guffey,
who had been legally elected as the
national committeeman by vote of
AZ out of total of 68 delegates from
Pennsylvania, which election made
him and still makes him the duly au-
thorized head of the Pennsylvania
state democracy"
Washington, d. c., July %. I'm
der the caption, Both Parties Have
| Spoken - Choose Between Them,
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation Of Labor, has
prepared an editorial for the next is
sue of the Federationist, in which the
anti-injunction planke contained in
the Republican and Democratic plat
forms are discussed at great length.
Mr.. Gompers first takes up the Re
publican platform. He quotes the
plank proposed by organized labor
| and the one adopted by the conven
tion. In commenting on the substitute
he says:
"At a glance the plank adopted will
be seen to be a flimsy, tricky evasion
of the issue. 1t is an endorsement oi
the very abuse against which labor
justly protests and would, IL enacted
by congress, give statutory authority
for the ISSUANCE of injunctions in la
Dor disputes, an authority which does
not now exist It is a pro-injun ction
not an anti-injunction declaration. II
Is worse than meaningless and evas
i've as the capitalistcorporation press
ha designated it. 1t would make more
acute the wrongs by which the toileri
are forced to bear the unjust judicia
burned of injunction discrimination.
Brands Plank an Insult.
| InaL part OF the plank declar1nf
that the Republican party will uphol'
the authority and integrity OF tn
courts is a gratuitous, indefensible
and covert insult not only to the me
| of labor. but to the courts themselves
Labor asked the Republican con
vention to declare for the enactmen
Of a law recognizing human rights an
human freedom. 1t wholly failed t
meet the requirements of an intoler
able, unjust and un- n-American situa
tion. No relief was either declared o
promised.
Labor asker the Republican con
vention for bread and 1t gave stone.
/ He next considers the planks pro
posed by labor to the Democratic con
vention at Denver and the on
i adopted In discussing this actio
i Mr.. Gompers says:
I'VE believe that the whole mass c
i the workers Of the country will res
B pond in hearty sympathy with tn
4 Democratic party in the coming cam
4 paign as result of it's action in tn
labor planks of the platform. The
i will be of practical benefit to tn
workers.