The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-19
HITS UNIONS and LEADERS
HAYWOOD REIED m LABOR MEN
70 mo DINE WlTH CARNEGIE.
he SAYS rhere tan he No Comp ss,ise
with Capital Closed shop anal other
Restrictions Are ruling Jalis with
Juhtess Men Class struswis the rhinx

Restrictions Are filiinx .Jalis with
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The American Federation Of labor as
well "a the capitalistic system was at
tackled yesterday by William ID. Haywood.
former secretary Of the Western Fedora
ton Of Miners. at a meeting held under
the auspices Of the Industrial Workers
OF the World In the Yorkville Casino,
2iO Fast Eighty-sixth street. The I. W.
W. Ia body Of Socialist trade unions
organized several years ago in opposition
to the American Federation Of Labor
According to Haywood the |. W. W.
does not believe in making contracts
with employers or doing anything else
that could be construed as an alliance
with capital. but its members have to
accept the wages system in order TO live
until capitalism h overthrown.
Miss Elizabeth Quincy Flynn presided
and said that when Haywood was sent
tn jail charged with completely in the muir
der OF Ex-Governor Steunenberg Of Idaho
hs was there "A martyr in the cause OF
the international labor movement. Men
who were sent To- Jail in this cause she
said. were beginning To feel nc home
there. She was beginning to believe that
there was something wrong with organ
lied labor when some Of its leaders were
not in jail.
Haywood was loudly applauCed when
he was introduced.
This meeting il supposed to be n wei
come home TO me from Europe he said.
but when was abroad was never away
from home. have been in France. Scan
ryI Ri mi and I falt NJ
home everywhere but in America. As
long rs America il ruled by the capital
ists ! will continue an undesirable cit-
zen. ! prefer TO be n citizen at my work
To being a citizen OF any State or nation.
1T gives me more pleasure To speak
under the auspices of a revolutionary
organization than under the auspices of
the American Federation Of Labor with
sam Gompers ON the one side and John
Mitchell on the other The capitalists
have their trusts. but the L. W. ". il going
to be tn. great labor trust Of the future
and must win over the capitalistic trusts.
He attacked trade unions and said the
class struggle was on instead. that the
strike in sweden and other national
st rikes. the execution OF Ferrer and the
revolutions o. the last year were only its
echoes The movement was being felt
in all the world He did not believe IN
agreements between the workers and the
capitalists a. to wages AID conditions
There Was no community u interest be-
tween capital and labor. he said. There
would be bitter war between them unit
labor owned everything. Capitalism was !
the same all the world over. Its ranks |
were thin. but at present It controlled
everything.
The only way in which labor can come |
TO it's own s 10y organization. he said !
America IL the home OF the trusts now
He declared that trade unlonIsm as
exemplIiied by the American Federation |
was only "A compromise John Mitchell.
Landed as q strike leader when the anthra-
cite miners made "A compromise agree
ment with the anthracite companies. had
since become chairman Of the trade
agreement department Of the Civic Fed
Grafton at u salary OF 5000 year
Gompers and Mitchell were nj dinner
OF III. Civic Federation and were seated
at the same liable with Andrew Carnegie
and John Hays Hammond
Il have received friendship from the
labor unions and hope won't offend my
friends when say am against the labor
unions. said Haywood.
No true socialist could be trade
unionis'. he added The trade unions
wanted the closed rhop and ~ that they
w.r. fighting not the bosses but their
fellow workers They made the lni'Ia-
fIon fees OF the unions so high that only
a small proportion Of rren IN uany OF
IN. trades could ge' INTO them. The
jaIl- were being filed with men who
through the closed shop and IN" r"-trlc-
tive apprenticeship System Of the unions .
were deprived Of work The t1ie Az /
dust rial movement would be started when .
there was "A labor trust composed Of ull
the workers Then there would be the
socialist common wealth