Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-11-12
GOMPERS SUSTAINED
OPPOSING delegates have BUT
few Followers.
President GOmperS is Heartily Ap.
plauded at the Twenty eighth Con.
veniiOn of the American Fedora.
tiOn of Labor. Opposition to His
Reelection Is Weak.

DENVER, Colo, Nov. 9.-Hearty
applause given President Samue
Gompers of the American Federation
of Labor by the delegates of the
twenty-eighth annual convention o
the organization at it's opening ses
report, which he read at the after
noon session, was interpreted to in
'dicate that there would be no effec
tive opposition to his reelection.
"The statement that there will b.
a big fight in the convention in re
gard to the action taken by Mr.. Com
pers in the recent campaign will no
be fulfilled" said John Mitchell, for
mer president of the United Min,
Workers of America and delegat,
to the labor convention.
1.-THE action of Mr.. Gompers wa
the result of instructions given hin
by the federation at previous con
ventions, and he will have virtual.
the entire support of the present con
vention.
"It is true there may be a figh
Oh the question of allowing the fed
GRAFTON to be brought into politics il
the future, but l do not think Mr.
'Gompers will be censured for tn,
part he played in supporting Mr.
Bryan"
President Gompers' report was {
long and exhaustive accounting o.
the work performed by the presi
dent during the year. At the out
set he declared:
''There must not be permitted tc
grow up or to be maintained a per.
manent army of unemployed"
The part of the report that touched
on the Buck Stove g. Range company
injunction was frequently interrupt
ed by applause. The statement o
the stand taken by John Mitchell
frank Morrison and Samuel Comp
erS on the injunction matter als'
was applauded.
Mr.. Gompers said in part:
1T is impossible to see how W,
can comply fully with the court
injunction. Shall we be denied tn
right of free speech and free pres
simply because We are workingmen
Now, it is the American Fedora
tlOn OF Labor and the American Fed
'erationist which are enjoined iron
the exercise of the right of fre
speech and the liberty of the press
In the future it may be another pub
1itation, and this injunction will
then be quoted as a sacred prece
dent for further and further en-
croachments upon the rights OF Gu
CcDl.le.
he suppression of freedom of tn
press is a most serious undertaking
whether in autocratic Russia or il
the republic of the United States
1t is because the present injunction
and the contempt proceedings ther'
under suppress free speech and fire,
press that feel it my duty to ente1
a most emphatic protest.
"The decision of the supreme cour
In the hatter's case involves ever,
wage worker OF our country. NJ
more unjust decision has ever beer
issued by a court. The Dred Scot
decision did not approach it in scop,
Speaker Cannon has packed com
mittees not only against labor, bu
against any other real reform legis
lation.
Congress adjourned with the de
f1ant declaration Of one of the Re
publican leaders, James S. Sherman
that the Republican party was res
ponsible for legislation or for tn,
failure Of legislation and that he an,
his party were willing to assume tn,
responsibility.
THE report of our legislative com
mittee reveals tale of perfidy to tn,
common veal and in telling the trutl
perforce besmirches the name ant
hitsory of a political party that fount
Its embodiment and ideaiism in tn,
martyred Lincoln.
The Republican party adopted de
clarations for the enactment of a Law
that would legalize the worst abus,
and perversion OF the injunction writ
this IN direct opposition to what W,
have asked"