El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-01-04

leaders Of the great Labor Trust know
how to mass this kind of men, IN
labor conventions and thus carry out
the leaders schemes, frequently alb
horrent 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 10 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 Provincial
Workingmen's Assn. of Canada has de-
clared in favor Of severing all connec-
ton with unions in the United States.
saying any union having its seat Of
government in America, and pretending
TO be international in its scope, must
fight industrial battles according TO
American methods Said methods have
consequences which are abhorrent to
the law abiding people Of Canada in
volving hunger, misery. riot bloodshed
and murder, all of which might be
termed a result of the practical war
now in progress in our fair province
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. 1O.-Charac-
terizing 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 wilful, premedi-
tated violation Of the law" Simon
Burns, general master workman
of the general assembly, Knights OF
Labor, has voiced a severe condemna-
tion of these three leaders. Mr.. Burns
expressed his confidence in courts in
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 Mr.. Burns,
that violates laws oftener than do the
trust labor organizations, which resort
to more dishonest, unfair and dishon-
orable methods toward their competitors
than any trust or combinations in the
country"
Mr. Burns said the action Of these
socalled leaders" would be harmful for
years TO come whenever attempts were
made to obtain labor legislation.
s.ThP Labor Digest raD,+ohl q
workingman's paper, says, as part Of
an article entitled, The beginning of
the end of Gompersism, many organiza-
tions becoming tired of the rule-or-
ruin policies which have been enforced
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 Of the workingTnen
have seen for years must be abandoned,
has been on account partly of the SEN
timental feeling on the part of the
organizations that he ought not to be
deposed. and the unwillingneSs of the
men who were mentioned for the place
to accept a nomination in opposition to
him. In addition to this, there is nc
DENYING the shrewdness of the leader
of the A. f. of l., and his political Sa-
gacitv. which has enabled him to keep
firm grip on the machinery of the
organization, 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 convention, to have
some sensation TO spring on the con-
vention at the psychological moment
which would place him in the light of a
martyr to the cause of uniOnism, and
excite a wave Of sympathetic enthusi-