The Prescott daily news., 1910-01-15

upright citizens. The noisy, violent 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
 ngmen 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 severng all con nections with unions in the U S., say ing 'any union having it's 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- l sequences which are abhorrent to the | 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 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.
 There Is no trust or combination of
 capital in the world" said Mir. Burns
 that violates laws oftener than do the trust labor organizations. which resort
 to more dishonest, unfair and dishon- orable methods toward their competi l 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 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- sacity, which has enabled him to keep 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 | 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- Ventlon at the psychological moment, which would place hin, in the light of n1-'i.r to t!.s cause oi u:.onism, cld