The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-07-24
Worst Enemies Of
Labor Still Those
Within Its Ranks
The Republicans Find There is
Trsltorous Work for Them To Do
In This Campaign and Are
Keeping Them Busy At II.


q ingy IN denunciation of the Denver platform.
These majority take the form OF
attacks Gompers president of the American Fedora
ton Of Labor who represented having tied to the Demo
cratic party before the Chicago convention met
The claim is made that what concessions the Re
publican party might made organized labor Gompers would
Denver where the Democracy would have
gone the Republicans better
lending their tongues the of
abo enemies such expression have suggested either
coming under the latter CLASH
fcaton both fools and knaves
They whom organized labor we'll dsown and put
out of the camp for they traitors to the cause
Where will the union who loyal to
Republican platform word to justify his
support of that platform?
Where Republican platform indicate
party enough about the welfare OF union labor TO
make the of false leader its concern that leader were
falsea
The charge made against Gomps that his antinjuncton
offered the Chicago convention drawn in such radical
terms that the convention would be to turn it down.
The plank offered the Denver convention and was
there originally drafted by Gompers, but it
appear radical for the predatory corpora
selfish greedy employers it construed to be
for labor in Chicago.
When the national resolutions committee in Chicago got
Through with the plank offered by Gompes its title was about all
by which identify it, with its original substance
twisted and anything stands
platform nothing less than indorse
this law has been stretched and abused in the past
In discrimination against labor
Organized got recognition Denver which did
Chicago which fact cited proof the wisdom OF
Mr. Gompers day preceding the Republican convention he
be pinned the Democracy
section of the Denver platform reads:
The :s0 the of rs
- ssssa % Illegal Of
Industry organ Of the manufacturers this
plank legaizes boycott adding in reference to it:
cratic = ..s %ss... S . S"s : n
This assertion the and apparently SO to
he mine of
standpoint.
publication has criticism make OF any part
of Republican platform recognizing the right of labor to or
ganze protection which all the Denver plat
form says and all that it
the platform is offensive the manufacturers
the those interests resort apab ne
Misrepresentation where applies
ganed labor platform certainly be appeal
the interest
And where does appeal, through comparison with the
Republican platform,
referred seeking political favor
brothers with whom he supposed stand hand in hand in
looking the betterment of conditions for ALL
Since convention, particularly the Denver
organized labor have been taken seriously
by the Republican party than when pleading for
representation in the pays declaration of principles.
small boy play who
finds he rudey against bigger boy and who
asns the bigger boy that he didn't hurt him.
The Republicans would intimate organized labor that they
didn't hurt it.
Isn't they have realize its proportions
and fear licking" in November
Is he compound
~ president, without incident