The Washington herald., 1908-06-18
LABOR SCORES.
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the committee on resolutions assembled
but the subcommittee was not ready to
report. The subcommittee thereupor
agreed to report 10 the fun committee al
9 o'clock tonight When the committee
met at 9 o'clock the subcommittee was
ready to report, and it was agreed that
there should be a postponement OF the
committees session until 10 O'Clock
Later the subcommittee on platform
reached the agreement given above. which
Is said 10 have been unanimous.
Speaker Cannon is here yet. and deter
mined 10 stay until the anti-injunction
controversy has beer adjusted one way OF
the other. His friends renewed to-day
their argument that If an anti-injunctiou
plank was contained in the platform pre-
sented 20 the convention. Uncle joe
should so on the floor with a delegate
proxy and lead the fight against the pro-
posed plank
Would FOresweRr Presidency.
To his friends the Speaker said:
If I should go into that convention !
would preface anything I had 10 say by
an absolute declaration that would not
take the Presidential nomination under
any circumstances. Then would tell
them what I thought Of this dastardly at
tempt TO interfere with the independence
Of the courts"
All OF which means that Uncle Joe is
terribly In earnest.
More than 10000 kilograms protesting
against the proposed anti-injunction plank
have been received by delegates.
When the subCommittees met at Il
o'clock this morning 10 continue its ses-
sion, Samuel Gompers was at hand with
two Of his lieutenants. Vice Presidents
Keefe and Duncan. OF the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor. 10 present their de-
mands.
Gompers submitted plank Of his own,
Intended 70 place the Republican party on
record as in favor OF trial by jury in labor
Injunction cases. and other radical things.
Among the suggestions contained in the
plank was an Endorsement OF woman's euf-
frage and postal savings banks.
Gompers Threatens Again.
In the course OF his argument in favor
of his plank. Gompers made one state
ment which took the form Of a virtual
threat that labor would resort to force 10
get what II wanted At least that was
the way II was construed by members OF
the subcommittee.
Il ask you" said Gompers, "to com
pare the influence which we exert in the
United States with the revolutionary
movements that are going on in other
countries Of the world. II you outlaw
our movement and destroy the incentive
for the American workingman 90 belong
to organizations Of labor you Will find
the expression Of discomfort taking some
other form, and you will have TO deal
with IL in that form
In opening HIS statement Gompers
shetChed the organized labor movement
in this country TO show that II was based
on wholesome principles and that the
people in It were patriotic TO the last de-
gree. They were not anarchists or revo-
lutionists. he said, but they demanded
the preservation OF their rights.
We do not want 10 eat an employer
as an appetizer for breakfast. or as a
dessert for dinner" he declared but we
want fair treatment. and we are going 10
have 1t. You might as well destroy the
organizations Of labor IS TO destroy their
methods OF activity"
six PlanlSs In Doubt.
Al midnight the full resolutions com
mittee had still under discussion the
following six subjects:
Anti-injunction, Philippine and Cuban
tariff, postal savings banks, Panama
Canal. negro representation. immigration.
Five-minute speeches by formal motion
were allowed TO members OF the com
mittee on these planks. 1t was under
stood that on other matters the commit
tee already had reached an agreement.
The committee planned to remain in ses-
sion until morning.