Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-08-24
ASK UN|ON|STS
TO ACT TOGETHER
Partisan Affiliations Must Be Put
Aside, Declares Samuel
Gompers.
CONTRASTS THE TWO PARTIES
Tho attitude Shown in Chicago and
Denver Conventions Draws Com
mcnt from Federation Officials.

The responses OF the two great
political parties to the demands OF or
ganized labor, as expressed in the Chi
cago and Denver platforms. is the sub
ject of q letter received in Salt Lake
from the executive council of the Am
erican Federation of Labor over the
signatures OF Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent and Frank Morrison. secretary.
These circular letters have been sent
out from the Headquarters OF the fed
GRAFTON in Washington to every local
lodge in the federation in the United
States to be read at their sessions this
week.
The letter. OF rather two letters, for
one is addressed to "All Organized
Labor" and another to "Organized
Labor and Friends in the United
States" arraigns the Republican party
in regard To it's treatment of labor's
demands. Among other things il Is
said
AT glance the plank Uhat Of the
Republican party as incorporated in its
Chicago PLATFORM win be seen to be
an evasion of the Issue. 1t is an en-
uorsement of every abuse against
which labor has justly protested and
would, II enacted by Congress- give the
authority OF law for the issuance of in
functions in labor disputes, an au-
thority which does not now exist II is
pro injunction, not an anti-in-
junction, declaration
COMPARES TREATMENT.
The above is the comment of the
letter with regard to the injunction
plank of the Republican platform The
letter asserts that exact duplicates of
IaDors demands were presented TO
the Republican and Democratic parties
when their delegates were assembled
in convention and that the Republican
party adopted plank of its own draft
ing as a substitute for the one submit
ted by organized labor. whereas the
Democrats at Denver incorporated in
IT'S platform the plank as submitted by
labor, 1t is pointed out that the
Democratic platform declares clearly
for restraint of the power of lnjunc-
uon and also favors the exemption of
labor from the operation of the
supreme court decision under the
Sherman antitrust law
After n review Of the treatment ac-
corded labor by the two great parties
the letter urges its readers to study
their respective platforms and then
vote as your conscience dictates"
Further, the letter advises the labor
ing man to elect your friends and
defeat your enemies"
URGES ACTIVITY.
The letter continues with the adj
monition:
we urge the workers to take up
this campaign with the utmost en-
thusiasm and energy Scan every
candidates record; study his party
platform, BE not deceived by vague.
unofficial, plausible assurances of
friendship. Let partisan affiliations
be cast aside In the great struggle To
preserve the rights and the freedom,
not only of the working people, but
of all the people Already the cam
paign of lying and misrepresentation
is in fun swing. Labors attitude and
that of its representatives is falsely
stated. Wrong conclusions are pur-
posely drawn in order to mislead la
Dor and its friends from the concert
ed action which will tend to protect
and preserve our industrial and civic
rights"
In the letter to organized labor and
its friends, the purposes of the other
letter are explained and aid is asked
with which 10 carry on labor's cam
paign Contributions are sought and
earnest effort requested with the adj
monition:
let us stand by our friends and
elect them, Let us oppose our enemies
and defeat them. Let all unite with
the determination to see that labor's
wrongs are righted and labor's rights
secured"