New-York tribune., 1908-07-25
BRYANISM In INDIANA
Laboring Men See Nothing for
Them IN an Anta-Injuaction Lazc.

1ns,,naso,is July a (speciaD.--Thers are IN
creasing evidences that the Democrats recnoheu
without their host in Indiana when they oo"eo 10
organized labor at Denver. and that some Oh eio
Indiana leaders are already beginning TO IND tne
yoke heavy. Not only have there been some pio-
nounced protests from Democratic business men
who are employers OF labor, but some OIL ,ne ot
ganized laboring men who are hot ensaseo III
interstate commerce aad whom a national anti
Injunction law would not affect are by no means
enthusiastic the Denver platform
A careful investigation of the list OF corpora
tions doing business in Indiana shows that outside
OF employees of railroads doing an interstate ousi-
ness not more than one in every hfty ianorine
men in the state would be benefited by q national
anti-njunction law.
Though John Mitchell has been one OF the most
earnest advocates of such law. careful eonsio-
Grafton shows that such measure would De no
nrotection "a the great body of miners employed
In this state. All of the mining companies are IN
corporated under the Indiana laws, even uiouei.
also incorporated in other states, and In case OF
trouble the state courts would be open to then III
fact in the great strike Of 1904 Judge Baker OF the
federal court refused act except In cases wnere
the passage of trains through the state was inter
fered with, holding that It was the duty or the
state courts to preserve the peace IN the MINING
districts
All streetcar companies, manufacturing concerns.
contractors and other large employers of labor
are incorporated under Indiana laws, ana the
average union laborer is asking where he is 10
receive protectiOn from a ndllOHhi N4ioN
will limit power of the courts in labor troupies
This class sees no tangible results to accrue 10
them, and they form the great body or iaoorihs
men in the state there are indications that few OF
them will be led change their party alignment
because the position of party on queston
which cannot be made vital to them.
Notwithstanding the prosperity that the country
has enjoyed and the rapid strides that unionsm
has made in Indiana there many of the most
competent men in all the trades the miners
and ola " affiliated
unions 1t is here that the Democrats stand to
lose. The non-organized tradesmen represent not
only competent but an intelligent body of labor
ing men, and they not affiliated with unions be-
cause they believe that competency rather than or
ganization should be the measure OF mans en-
pioyment Between this class and that larger class
where attempt at organization mas Deeh
made common laborers, farm hands and the
like and the members of organized labor there
has always been more less feeling and the fact
that it is proposed 10 legslae In behalf of the one
and not for the other will have its effect In No
vember.
But there is another factor in Indiana politics
this year that may make itself felt. In many of
the cities manufacturers and other employers of
labor are organized into associations whose avowed
purpose is to protect each other in of labor
troubles. These organizations affiliated with
state organization and trouble in one section Is
to excite sympathy In another and lead to aid
In the shape of unerganzed to take the places
Citations are both Democratic and Republican in
politics, but they a unit In opposition TO any
policy that will increase the difficulties that they
have encountered in dealing with the unions.
Then, too, there is organization known as the
Indiana Manufacturers Association, which was or
ganzed legsla ton niTnical to manufactur
ing interests 1t has opposed the employers liability
bill. the eight hour bill and the anti-injuncton
bill. The thus associated and thus opposing
these labor measures Democrats well as Re
publicans, and there is little question but that many
Democrats thus affiliated will hesitate TO ap
prove with their votes policies which they have op
posed for years with their money and their per-
sonal influence.
Many of the Democratic leaders recognize that
there difficulties in the way Of the party which
might have been avoided had there been con-
servatsm in respect to the subject of labor Just
what instructions will be issued to speakers has
been decided, but 1t is the belief of some of
cautious that the party will lose nothing
by ignoring parts of the platform when dis
cussng the issues in the manufacturing districts.
This class is firmly convinced that the average
laboring man is much of a partisan any other
citizen and that his Democracy his Republican
ism Is affected more by prosperity and adversely
than by any legislation that be invoked in his
aid.