The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1910-02-05
Don't Weep At
The Ice House.

ventions and thus carry out the lead
ers' 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
workingmen insist on being heard
sometimes 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 a lot more of them"
The Grand Council of the Provin-
cial Workingmen's Assn of Canada
has declared in favor of severing all
connection with unions in the U. S.,
saying any union having it's seat of
Govt in America, and pretending to
be international in its scope, must
fight industrial battles according to
American methods. Said methods
have consequences which are abhor-
rent to the law-abiding people of Can
ada involving hunger, misery, riot,
bloodshed and murder, all of which
might be termed a result of the prac-
teal war now in progress in our fair
province and directed by foreign ennis
saries of the United Miners of Amer
lea
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, &C., Nov. 1O.-Char-
acteriZing the attitude of Samuel
Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank
Morrison, of the American Federation
of Labor in the contempt proceedings
in the courts of the District of Column
bia, in connection with the Bucks
Stove and Range Company, as "a
willful, premeditated violation of the
law" Simon Burns, general master
workman of the general assembly,
of Labor, has voiced a severe
of these three leaders.
Mr.. Burns expressed his confidence in
courts in general and in those of the
District of Columbia in particular.
APPROVED BY DELEGATES.
This rebuke by Burns was in his
annual report to the general assembly
Of his organization. He received the
hearty approval of the delegates who
heard it read at their annual meeting
n this city.
There is no trust or combination |
If capital in the world" said Mr.. |
Burns, that violates laws oftener |
han do the trust labor organizations. |
which resort to more dishonest, I'M
.air and dishonorable methods to-
ward their competitors than any trust |
,r combinations in the country I
Mr.. Burns said the actieHbf "these
o-called leaders" would be harmful |
or years to CONG whenever attempts
we're mads obtain labor lesi'la-
The Tabor Digest q reputable
vorkj6gman's paper, says, as partof
N article entitled "The beginning of
he end of G@persism, many organi-
atoms becoming tired of the rule-or-
uin policies which have been en-
orced by the president of the A. F.
f L."
THAT he has maintained his lead
rship for so long a time in the face
f his stubborn clinging to policies
7hich the more thoughtful of the
have seen for years must
e abandoned, has been on account
artly of the sentimental feeling on
ne part of the organizations that he
ught not to be deposed, and the I'M
of the men who were
lentioned for the place, to accept a
omination in opposition to him. In
edition to this, there is no denying
he sshrewdness of the leader of the
!. F. of L., and his political sagacity,
hich has enabled him to keep a firm
rip on the machinery of the organi- ,
alton, and to have his faithful bench
len in the positions where they could ,
0 him the most good whenever their
srvices might be needed I
Further than this, he has never {
Tiled, at the last conventions, to have ,
'me sensation to spring On the con- s
ention at the psychological moment, i
hich would place him in the light of 7
martyr to the cause of unionism, :
Id excite wave of sympathetic en- 8
lusiasn. for him. which would carry i