The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1908-10-24
beveridg;e in
Colorado
e,rEe FACTS OF INTEREST TO
EVERY BRANCH OF Or
GANiZED LABOR.

dress OF United states oeudtoi DIV
ertdge. delivered at Pueblo. October
i4th, show what the Republican party
has actually done for the workingman,
In contrast with the promises OF the
Democracy:
"As have previously spoken OF the
rights and wrongs of capital l snail
speak tonight of the rights and wrongs
OF labors. Labor has suffered many
wrongs and in the last seven years
has had more of those wrongs righted
than in all the years put together
since the organization of labor. This
has been accomplished under the lead
ership of Theodore Roosevelt.
Let me give you few examples
of the demands of organized labor
which have been granted. Labor de-
manded that Chinese coolies should be
kept out OF the ranks Of American
labor Organized labor was right in
this demand for the Chinaman lives
on rice and is content with meager
wages. But the American laborer
must live upon the American scale;
rear an American family; train his
children in American schools; raise
American citizens, and be one him
self Organized labor was right in say
ing that American labor must not
be compelled to compete with Chinese
labor. Congress passed law which
kept the coolies out of America.
selected this for the particular pur-
pose of showing the workingmen whom
his real friends are. When this ques-
t!on arose there were demagogues in
both parties who opposed the passage
of the law, but it is a Republican
congress that passed it and a Repub
lican who signed it.
Wrong is Rshted.
In the next place organized labor
demanded that law should be passed
preventing railroads from working
their employees an inhuman number of
hours Up to two years ago the
interstate railroads In hundreds OF in
stances compelled their men to work
without sleep or rest more than forty
eight hours at a time. This was not
only a wrong to the laborer but was
also the cause of wrecks and loss of
life. You all remember the wreck
that occurred near Washington In
which 275 men, women and children
were mangled and burned. This was
caused by the railroad company S
greed In working their engineers and
train crew without sleep or rest for
more than forty-eight hours. until
the engineers eyes were so dim that
he could not distinguish the lights.
That Infamous practice was caused by
the greed of the railroad managers
ORGANIZED LABOR DEMANDED
THAT THOSE PRACTICES CEASE
CONGRESS PASSED A LAW END.
ING THEM. THAT LAW WAS
under Democratic rule became worse
and worse until the people called the
Republican party to power again.
Writ Of Injunction.
Before President Tafts administra
tion is one year old we shall end the
abuse of the injunction in labor dis
rrtes On this great question there
are extremists on both sides-both
wrong, as extremists always are
There are those who declare that the
power to enjoin has never been alb
surd-but the American bench and bar
know that it has been abused; work
ingmen know 1t. the whole people
know 1t. Injunctions have been is
given until the trouble had passed
men punished for disobedience with
out their day in court. These abuses
are not many; but there have been
enough of them to prove the evil. to
arouse sense of injustice in the
breast of labor, to create unrest
throughout the nation.
The possibility of these abuses
must be stopped. Every man should
have his day in court-this is the first
great maxim of law made liberty and
liberty, made law. This is the found
alton OF the peoples respect for and
obedience to the courts. When the
meanest man beneath our flag is de
MED that right. the republic ceases
to be free. No injunction should is
sue without notice; and once issued 1,
should speedily be heard.
Gompers Honest But Wrong.
Il do not think that the men who
are demanding this law fully under
stand its consequence: do not believe
they realize the Frankenstein they
are creating. No man means better
by his fellowman than Mr.. Bryan. but
ha has not taken the time To fhinL