Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-01-07

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
ers' schemes, frequently abhorrent to
the rank and file: so 1t 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 conventions:
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 its scope, must fight
industrial battles according to Ameri-
can methods. Said methods have con-
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 a 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, ID. 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 Columbia,
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. MIR. 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
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 Mr.. 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
the country"
Mr.. 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" reputable
workingman's paper, says, as part o.
an article entitled THE beginning o.
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 O
his stubborn clinging to policies whicl
the more thoughtful workingmen hav'
seen for years must be abandoned, ha
been on account partly OF the sent
mental feeling on the part of the OF
ganizations that he ought not to be de
posed, and the unwillingness of tn
men who were mentioned for the place
to accept nomination in opposition t
him. In addition to this, there is n
denying the shrewdness of the leade
of the A. F. of L., and his political So
gacity, which has enabled him to kee
a firm grip on the machinery of the ol
ganization, and to have his faithfu
henchmen in the positions where the
J could do him the most good wheneve
!, their services might be needed.
: Further than this, he has neve
, failed. at the last conventions, to hav
some sensation to spring on the col
: ventlon at tha psychological momen
} which would place him In the light {
. a martyr to the cause Of unlonlsm. az