Norwich bulletin., 1910-01-04

know how to mass this kind of men, in labor conventions and thus carry out the leaders schemes, frequently ab- 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 to have sald 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 Workingrnen's Assn of Canada has declared in favor of severing all con- 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 invoIv- ing hunger, misery, riot, bIoodshed and murder, all of which might be 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 pEIHIeQ the IOllOW1ng:
 CBy the Associated Press)
 Washington, D. 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 Colum- bia. in connection with the Bucks Stove and Range company, as "a will full, premeditated violation of the law" simon Burns, general master work man of the general assembly, Knights of Labor, has voiced a severe con- demnation of these three leaders. MT 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 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 MT. Burns, that violates laws oftener than do the trust labor organizations, which resort to more dishonest unfair and dishon- ora'ble methods toward their competi- tors than any trust or combinations in the country"
 Mir. 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 work1ngman'S paper, says, as part of an article entitled '@The beginning of the end of Gompersism, many organi- zations 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 lead ership for so long a time in the face of his stubborn cHnging to policies which the more thoughtful of the workingmen have seen for years must be abandoned, has been on account partly of the sentimental feeling on the part of the organizations that he ought not to be deposed, and the un- willingness of the men who were men, toned for the place, to accept a, nomi- nation in opposition to him. In addi- ton to this, there is no denying the shrewdness of the leader of the A. F. of IA-, and his political sagacity, which has enable him to keep a firm grip on the machinery of the organization, and to have his faithful henchnen 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 vention at the psychological moment, which would place him in the light of a martyr to the cause of unionisn, and excite a wave of sympathetic en- thusiasm for him. which would carrx