The Whitefish pilot. [volume] (Whitefish, Mont.) 1904-current, 1908-09-11
ENDORSE NO POLITICAL
PARTY

Victor Rosewater, head of the publicity
bureau of the republican party, has given
out the following statement made by p.
H. Morrissey, grand master of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen, in circu-
lar recently issued to all lodges and MEM
bers under Cleveland date:
"Brother H. R. Fuller, national legis-
lative representative OF the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers, Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Engineers ard
of our Brotherhood, after consulting with
the chief executives of these organiza-
tons, presented to the Republican ma
tional convention at Chicago, in June,
1908, proposed anti-injunction plank as
representing the views of those organiza
tons, and requested that it be placed in
the platform of that party as follows:
"We pledge ourselves to such legsla
ton as will guarantee to workmen those
rights necessary to their industrial protec-
ton, including the right to strike and to
induce or persuade others to do so; and
to such legislation as will prevent the is
suance of restraining orders and iniunc-
tons without hearing, and guaranteeing
trial by jury to persons accused of con-
tempt OF court, if such alleged contempt
be not committed in the presence of the
court, or so near thereto as to obstruct
the administration of justice
"The convention declined to accept
this proposal and adopted in its stead
another plank. (IIere is quoted the Re-
publican anti-injunction plank
'Brother Fuller, together with Broth
or Willis, assistant and chief engineer of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, appeared before the Democratic
national convention in Denver and pre-
sented the same proposed plank as sub
united to the republican convention.
The Democratic convention also declined
to accept it and adopted in its stead
another plank. (Here is quoted the DEM
ocratic anti-injunction plank
st should be understood that the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen has
no political program and endorses no po-
litical party or candidate for any elective
Office. Neither have the lodges any au-
thority to use their funds in furtherance
of any partisan political movement and
any attempt on the part of any officer OIL
member of the Brotherhood to enlist the
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the interest of any candidate or part!
should be promptly challenged and re
pudiated.
1--WE give above to the membership
the substance of the action of the TIVE
leading political parties on the injunction
question purely for your information
The report of our national Legislative
representative, Brother H. II. Fuller, o
the second session of the tifty-ninth con
gress, is in the hands of the subordnat
lodges, and his report for the first session
of the sixtieth congress will soon be for
warded to all lodges SO that any membe
who desires to know the record OF hi
congressman on any question OF vital i'm
portance to labor can procure the infor
nation desired
ut would be presumptuous on OH
part to make any recommendations t
our members as to how they should vot
in the coming general election, but ma
5 turally and properly We might say tina
. every man interested in the labor move
ment, Independent of his utilization wit
organization, should consider CAREFUL
the platform, candidates and other rec
ords and stand by our friends and hel
elect them as well as oppose our enemic
and help defeat them.''