The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-31
Nominee of Republicans Scores Bryan and GOmpers on
 Labor Vote
PROTECTIVE SYSTEM IS
 ADVOCATED FOR WORKERS
Influence of Gompers Is Called Perni- cious By Taft, Who Arraiens Both Bryan and Gompers for
 Labor Situation.

 Buffalo, N. Y.. October 30-Sledge- hammer blows at the Gompers- Bryan labor legislation plans were delivered here tonight by William H. Taft before two immense audiences.
 The attempt of MT. Gompers he de clared, with great emphasis, ito deliver the labor vote of this country is as au- daeious an act of political effrontery as has ever occurred in the history of poli- tics. It is most reassuring to note that the men associated with MT. Gompers in the executive council of the Feeder aton of Labor are falling away from him in this effort of his to make the Federation of Labor political factor
 "The men who decline to follow him are John Mitchell. MT. James Duncan, first vice president of the American Feder- alton of Labor MT. Daniel keefe, head of the Longshoremens' union; MT. W. D. Ryan. secretary and treasurer of the United Mine Workers; MT. A. l.. Faulk- Ter president of the Window Glass Workers of America: Claude Worth sec 1etary and treasurer of the International Dredge Workers; Charles Mccarthy. grand president Tug Bremen and Line mems association; w. F. Fuller pres idept of the elevator employees; T. J. Dolan, international secretary steam shovel and dredgemen, and many others high in the councils of labor prgaHiza- tions. It Is struggle for political ex- istence on the part of MT. Gompers and he is ssiiiicg u tesorr to- every extreme method possible to secure success"
 After asserting that the protective sys- tenn was decidedly the most important consideration for the American work men, MT. Taft said:
 What Gompers Wants.
 MT. Gompers is willing to have d return of the conditions that existed in 1896. so eloquently described by him at that time, if only he can secure what he regards as the proper legisla- ton concerning injunctions. He pro- poses to abolish injunctions in indus trial disputes where the injunction is issued to protect the business of a per son whose business is injured by the lawless acts of workingmen, and this by statute He also proposes to legalize the secondary boycott although many trades unions have distinctly denounced the use of the secondary boycott as an Instruments in industrial disputes which is unrepublican, unAmerican and which Is certain to react upon the user.
 
 MT. Bryan, has inquired of him whether the democratic platform is to be taken as favoring this plan of MT. Gompers, which MT. Gompers asserts to be the fact, saying that it was agreed between MT. Gompers and Mir. Bryan that what the labor interests had been demanding from Congress should be a part of the democratic platform. MT. Bryan has refused to answer MT. Roosevelt's questions and, therefore, we may take it that he is committed to MT. Com ptrs' programme"
 After expressing the belief that the legislation which MT. Gompers proposed would be unconstitutional, Judge Taft continued:
 man without a full hearing or made an order affecting his wages without a full hearing Is altogether unfounded and false, and it is one of those slam ders circulated at the end of the cam paign for the purpose of awakening the pretudices of ignorant or unin- formed persons.
 Will Help Labor.
 CT wish to say that no matter what labor may do under the pernicious influ- ence of MT. Samuel Gompers and those associated with him in this campaign, if I am successful the political position of
 
 the slightest from doing what I can to aid proper labor legislation in the future, and will not in any way diminish my con stant interest in the securing to those who earn their livelihood by the sweat of their brows near an equal opportunity for progress toward better things as hu- man society can afford them. I am con- fdent that many of the wage-earning class will support the republican ticket, I ipf r am sure that they are able to determine their real interests and will not be led astray by the fustian and buncombe of such appeals as those which MT Gompers is now making to his supposed follow ers' The meeting at Utica today between Judge W. H. Taft and James S. Sher- man and the magnitude of the reception the republican presidential candidate re- ceived in this city tonight were other features today of the campaign Judge Taft is making in northern New York At Batavia late this afternoon he left his car in a driving snowstorm to speak to a great crowd. Buffalo has two enormous meeting places Convention hall and the Broadway arsenal. These two places were packed. This was "Taft tag day in Buffalo He 1 took advantage of the occasion to make labor speeches. The Utica demonstration in honor of the 1 two men who head the republican ticket i furnished lighter chapter to the serious work of the campaign. Judge Taft cap- tured the esteem of his auditors there by | familiarly speaking of his colleague as ! ''Jim' and declaring his absolute conf- | dence in 'Jim's'' prediction of republican success next Tuesday
 Standard Oil Subject.
 tl1o I, Taft took up the Standard oil subject.
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