The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-12-24

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= declared by J. c. Gordon, .
. president Of the Central =
. Labor union, which will .
. meet Monday night. It lie .
= proposed to draft resolu- %
= tions and address them to .
= the president, protesting .
. against the Injunction law =
q and against the sentences. .
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A demonstration of union men
in protest against the action of
the supreme court Of the District
of Columbia in sentencing Com
pers, Mitchell and Morrison to
terms of imprisonment for viola
ton Of an Injunction order, will
undoubtedly be called in Spokane
in the near future. A starter of
the movement will be the meeting
Monday night Of the Central Labor
union, of which J. C. Gordon is
president. Although Mr.. Gordon
is not in a position now to say
what will be done at the meeting,
it is the consensus of opinion that
the Gompers matter will be the
main topic Of discussion and that
a demonstration meeting will be
called.
1.-THE sentencing of Gompers is
the greatest outrage ever per-
petrated in this country" said
Thomas Maloney, prominent or
ganized labor official today.
That it's effect will rebound to
the good of unionism MIR. Maloney
claims when he says one of the
results will be to cement unions
and make them better organized
for one common purpose. They
will go into politics and make their
fights hereafter on the ideas adj
vanced by Mr.. Gompers.
With regard to the corporation
concerned Mr.. Maloney said: This
will do more to injure sale of this
make of stoves than all the boy
cotting possible"
That Gompers got all that was
coming to him on behalf Of labor
is the opinion of f. A. Cooney,
vice president of the State Fedora
ton of Labor.
Mr.. Cooney takes this position:
THE new administration, which
is responsible for such injunction
orders. was reelected and no doubt
with considerable union support
Let the union men take their
medicine. Although l am opposed
to the injunction law 1t is law,
and while standing as such should
be given as much regard by union
men and everyone else as any
other law.
II do not think union men will
hold any demonstration meeting"
said Mr.. Cooney this morning.
The conservative union men real
ize the uselessness of any such
proceeding and that Mr.. Gompers
got no more than he had coming.
He should obey injunctions as ev-
cry other law. The makers of the
law were elected, and while such
laws are on the books they should
be obeyed.
"If the president is petitioned TO
pardon Gompers or the others.
that will not make them guiltless.
Guilty persons should take their
medicine like anyone else. OF
course | am talking only as one
member Of organized labor and not
for the federation. What will be
done l am not prepared to say. but
those are my views. If the work
ingmen want such law they should
be willing to abide by it. Their
votes make the laws"
Frank H. Walker, former presi-
dent of the Spokane Central Labor
union, says:
THE decision of Judge Wright
in the contempt proceedings
against the officials of the Amerl-
can Federation of Labor should
serve as tonic to the labor move
ment throughout the country,
Something was needed to bring the
working men of this country to a
realization of the inequality before
the law of capital and labor. The
difference in the treatment &C
corded corporations. trusts and
men of great wealth and that
dealt out to labor should now be
apparent to every fair minded man,
and should serve to bring about a
general demand that the courts
deal out justice alike to rich and
poor
when 1t Ii taken into consid-
Grafton that the members OF labor
unions throughout the. country
have up to the present time ahso-
lutely refused to act to:etAer. In,