The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-08-25
LABOR ATTITUDE
IN THE CAMPAIGN
Denis Hayes Declares That The Bulk
of The Vote Will Be
For Bryan.
oFFENSE GIVEN BY CANNON.
Pittsburg Organ Of Labor Objects to
Attacks of Gompers on
Taft.
oFFENsB GIVEN BY CANNON.

ATLANTA CITY, July 31.-Denying
that the opposition of organized labor
to the Republican party began with the
failure of the Chicago convention to
put the anti-injunction plank demand
ed in its platform, Denis A. Hayes vice
president of the American Federation
of Labor and president of Glass Bot
tie Blowers Union, now,in conference
here with the employers, laid the fault
at the door of Speaker Cannon. Mr..
Hayes said the moral courage" of Mr..
Bryan had fired the interest of the
labor men, and that Speaker Cannon's
treatment of them in the recent session
Of Congress had affronted them, and
that between the two 1T was extreme
" likely that the bulk of the labor
vote would be Democratic"
Mr.. Hayes denied that any effort
would be made by Samuel Gompers to
influence the members of the American
Federation of Labor to support the
Democratic ticket, other than to show
to them clearly the difference in the
treatment the two conventions gave
the requests he preferred.
I'VE have resented the arbitrary
fashion with which we were treated by
Speaker Cannon last winter" he said.
and although l believe that the solid
labor vote would go to Roosevelt or to
support his candidate if his honorable
Intentions toward us could have pre-
vailed. l think the attitude of Mr..
Cannon and the men in the House of
Representatives have wholly nullified
the kindly efforts of Mr.. Roosevelt.
We do not care anything about parti-
san supremacy, nor about the several
virtues of the candidates. We are
not primarily interested in politics, as
a body, but we do want our rights as
citizens, and we will naturally lend
our votes to the party which appears
most likely to further our ends.
I'VE know that organized capital
went to Chicago to influence the Re-
publican convention. We believe that
it succeeded. We know that the Re-
publican anti-injunction plank is dis
ingenious and evacsive. It's Phrase
ology is an affront to us. Its cautious
protection of the dignity of the courts
is wholly unnecessary, considering that
we never attacked it. We want abuses
curtailed, but we are not clamoring
for anarchistic impertinence to the
recognized order of things.
'Mr. Cannon's high handed dismiss
sal of our appeals on the ground that
labor men want special legislation is
not only absurd and unfair, and tend
ing to strain our friendliness to all
things Republican, but it is absolute
ly untrue All we want is restric-
tive law upon courts which it would be
idle cavilling to say have not at some
time laid themselves open to charges
Of corruption. He treats us as if we
were herd of ignorant unlettered, I'M
enlightened men who are clamoring
for special enactments, as if we were
not American citizens.
1T is past the limit of human achie-
vement now to deliver the labor vote
in lump sum to any political party.
The labor men are not analytical, and
they rarely think things out, but they
have a way of feeling situations. They
know that by an insidious and slow
growing change in industrial process
es it has become possible to produce
articles in this country and sell them
In others at less cost than the factories
of the other countries can produce
them for themselves. Labor men see
suddenly that the protective tariff shoe
has got onto the other foot, and that
the first thing we know we will have
to be facing the tariffs of other coun-
tries protecting themselves against
| u.s."
PITTSBURG, July 31.-The Labor
World in its issue today says:
THAT Secretary Taft is a true friend
of labor is certain, and all the untrue,
ungenerous, vicious attacks that Presi-
dent GOmpers or any one else may
make on him cannot prevent him from
continuing to be the friend Of the
wage worker. Organized labor can
not afford to have itself split up into
factions on this political issue. That
President Gompers is wrong in forcing
this most ominous fight is certain, and
intelligent wage workers will certain
ly come to this conclusion"
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