Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-30
LABOR MEN SATISFIED
Express Qualification With
Their Talk With Bryan.
ARE OPPOSED TO TAFT
Regard Him as Father of Govern
ment by Injunction.
JG.PURCELL'S ANNOUNCEMENT
Feels Certain That the Democratic
Platform Will Contain an
Acceptable Plank.
J.G. PURCELL's ANNOUNCEMENT

LINCOLN Neb June 30.-Two of the
associates of Samuel Gompers. president
OF the Federation of Labor. held a confer
ence with Mr.. Bryan at Fairvlew yester-
day afternoon in regard to the antrim
junction plank. and when they left him
, they expressed entire qualification with
their talk and with the outlook at Denver.
so far as the interests they represent are
concerned. They are delegates to the
convention from the District of Columbia.
) one is Sam De Nedrey, editor OF the
Trades Unionist. in Washington. The 9TH
er. j. G. Purcell. is one of Samuel Com
pers' recognized spokesman.
Labor's Attitude Toward Taft.
Organized labor throughout the nation
is preparing uncompromisingiy 10 oppose
the election of Secretary Taft" said Mr..
Purcell. We regard him as the father of
government by injunction and attribute to
his decision. while upon the federal cir
cult bench in Ohio responsibility for the
train of evils that have since beset the in
terests of labor in the federal courts.
When he and President Roosevelt had the
power at the Chicago convention to force
into the platform declaration on IN
functions that would have harmonfzed
with their professions they surrendered
outright to the demands of capital and
permitted in the platform an injunction
plank that is intended to deceive every
fair-minded man in the country.
We feel certain that the democratic
national platform will contain an injunc-
ton plank that Will appeal to organized
labor everywhere and, at the same time.
will not be objectionable to that element
of voters inclined to listen to reason.
Naturally the injunction question is not
so acute an issue in the west as It Is In
the east and as Mr.. Bryan must look to
Ia
be needed to land him in the White House
We feel that every friend OF his In the
Denver convention will support whatever
declaration on the subject of injunction
that may be acceptable to him..
Bryan at Work on Plank.
Upon authority that comes from a we'll
informed and trustworthy source 1t can be
asserted that Mr.. Bryan has agreed to
material modification of the injunction
plank of the Nebraska platform that will
be the basis for the platform makers at
the Denver convention.
Moreover. IT was by this same authority
stated that Mr.. Bryan has at least two
thirds of the modified plank prepared.
These he has shown to few visitors to
Fairview within the last "a hours.
Although 1t is impracticable at this time
!. TO give the phraseology employed by Mr..
Bryan in modifying an enunciation on the
sub ject of the writ of injunction which he
formulated for the Nebraska democratic
state convention early last March, 1t Is
asserted by persons who say they have
seen the modification that the language
will be sufficiently plain and explicit to
satisfy the American FEDERATION OF Labor,
presented to the committee on resolu-
.tions OF the republican national conven-
: sion by Samuel Gompers and other LABOR
leaders.