The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-02

labor conventions and thus carry out
the leaders schemes, frequently abhor~
rent to the rank and file; so II 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, sometimes
at the risk of their lives.
Delegate Egan is reported to have
said at the Toronto conventions;
''If the officers of the federation
would only adhere to the law we would
think lot more of them
The GRIND Council of the Provincial
Workingmen S Association of Canada
has declared in favor OF severing all
connection with unions in the United
States. saying "any union having it's
seat of government IN America and
pretending TO be international in it's
scope. must fight industrial battles ac-
cording to American methods. Said
methods have consequences which are
abhorrent 10 the law abiding people Of
Canada, involving hunger, misery, riot,
bloodshed and murder, all of which
might. be termed a result of the prae-
tical war now in progress in our fair
province and directed by foreign ennis
saries of the United Miners of Amer
lea. -
L HIS ~ an HOutsI NduduldH view oI
our Infamous Labor Trust
few days ago the daily papers
printed the following:
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington. D. c., Nov. 10.-Char~
acterizing the attitude of Samuel Comp
ers. John Mitchell and Frank Morrison
of the American Federation of Labor
in the contempt proceedings IN the
courts of the District of Columbia, in
connection with the Bucks Stove and
Range company, as a Hwillful, premedi-
tated violation of the law Simon
Burns, general master workman of the
has voiced severe condemnation of
these three leaders. Mr. Burns cx.
pressed his confidence in courts in gen
eraI and In those of the District Of Co.
!umbia in particular.
Approved by Delegates,
This rebuke by Burns was in his an.
nual report to the general assembly of
his organizations He received the
hearty approval of the delegates who
heard it read at their annual meeting
in this city.
f'There is no trust or com mbination of
capital in the worId.' said Mr. Burns.
that violates laws oftener than do
the trust labor organizations, which re-
sort to more dishonest. unfair and dis
honorable methods toward their compel.
itors than any trust or combinations in
the country
Mr.. Burns said the action of "tbese
so-ealled leaders, would be harmful
for years TO come whenever attempts
were made to obtain labor legislation.
90 The Labor Digest" a reputable
workingman Is paper, says, as part Of an
article entitled "The beginning of. the
end Of Gomperism, many organizations
becoming tired of the rule.orruin poll
cies which have been enforced by the
president of the A. +. of L.
''That he has maintained his leader
ship for 20 long time in tho face OF
his stubborn clinging TO policies which
the more thoughtful of the working
men have seen for years must be aban.
doned, has been on account partly of
the sentimental feeling on the part of
the organizations that he ought not to be
depose9 and the unwillingness of the
men who were mentioned for the place
TO accent nomination in opposition ia
| him. In addition TO this, there is nc
| denying the shrewdness of tho leader OF
| the A. F. Of L.. and his political sagacr
ity, which has enabled him to keep n
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, Mt the last conventions. to have
some sensation to spring ON the conven
ton at the psychological moment, which
would place him In the light Of martyr
to the cause Of unionism, and excite 2
wave of sympathetic enthusiasm fol