The Carlisle independent., 1910-01-06

upTlS0I ClClZ60S. me nOISy, VlOi6ul ones get into office and the leaders of
 the great Labor Trust know how to
 mass this kind of men, in labor con ventions and thus carry out the lead
 CTS schemes, frequently abhorrent to
 the rank and file: so it was at the late
 Toronto convention.
 The paid delegates would applaud
 and ''resolute" as Gompers wanted, but
 now and then some of the real work
 ingmen insist on being heard, some
 times at the risk of their lives. Delegate Egan is reported to have said at the Toronto convention:
 If the officers of the federation
 would only adhere to the law we would
 think lot more of them"
 The Grand Council of the Provincial Workingmen's Assn of Canada has declared in favor of severing all con nections with unions in the U. S., say ing any union having its seat of Govt in America, and pretending to be international in it's scope, must fight industrial battles according to Ameri-
 can methods. Said methods have con- sequences which are abhorrent to the l law-abiding people of Canada involving
 hunger, misery, riot. bloodshed and
 murder, all of which might be termed
 as result of the practical war now
 in progress in our fair provinces and
 directed by foreign emissaries of the United Miners of America"
 That is an honest Canadian view of
 our infamous Labor Trust"
 A few days ago the daily papers
 printed the following:
 (By the Associated Press.)) Washington, D. C., Nov. 10.-Char- acterizing the attitude of Samuel Com pers, John Mitchell -and Frank Nor rison of the American Federation of Labor in the contempt proceedings in the courts of the District of Columb bia, in connection with the Bucks Stove and range company, as "a willful, pre- meditated violation of the law Simon Burns, general master workman of the general assembly, Knights of Labor,
 has voiced a severe condemnation of these three leaders. MT. Burns eX-
 pressed his confidence in courts in gen
 eral and in those of the District of Columbia in particular.
 APPROVED BY DELEGATES. This rebuke by Burns was in his an-
 nual report to the general assembly of his organization. He received the
 hearty approval of the delegates who heard it read at their annual meeting in this city.
 i There is no trust or combination of | capital in the world" said MT. Burns, that violates laws oftener than do the trust labor organizations, which resort to more dishonest, unfair and dishon- | orable methods toward their competi- | tors than any trust or combinations in 1 the country"
 MT. Burns said the action of these so-called leaders" would be harmful | for years to come whenever attempts
 were made to obtain labor legislation. The Labor Digest" a reputable
 workingman's paper, says, as part of
 an article entitled ''The beginning of | the end of Gompersism, many organ | izations becoming tired of the rule-or- ruin policies which have been en- | forced by the president of the A.
 F. of L."
 That he has maintained his leader | ship for so long a time in the face of l his stubborn clinging to policies which
 the more thoughtful workingmen have seen for years must be abandoned, has been on account partly of the senti- mental feeling on the part of the or
 ganizations that he ought not to be de- posed, and the unwillingness of the
 men who were mentioned for the place,
 to accept nomination in opposition to him. In addition to this, there is no denying the shrewdness of the leader
 of the A. F. of L., and his political sa- gacity which has enabled him to keep a firm grip on the machinery of the or ganization, and to have his faithful henchmen in the positions where they | could do him the most good whenever l their services might be needed. Further than this, he has never | failed, at the last conventions, to have
 some sensation to spring on the con
 venton at the psychological moment, which would place him in the light of
 q martyr to the cause of unonism, and