The San Francisco call., 1910-01-02

peaceable, 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
conventions and thus carry out the
leaders schemes frequently abhpr-
rent 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.
ing men insist on being heard, some
times 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 Provincial
Workingmen's Assn of Canada has
declared in favor of severing all con-
nection with unions in the u. s., say
ing ''any union having its seat of
Govt in America and pretending to
be international in it's scope. must
fight industrial battles according to
American methods. Said methods
have consequences which are abhorrent
to the law-abiding people of Canada,
involving hunger, misery, riot, blood
shed 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"
few days ago the daily papers
printed the following:
(By the Associated Press
Washington, d. c.. Nov. 10.-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 will
full, premeditated 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
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
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
dishonorable methods toward their
competitors than any trust or COM
binations 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.
saThe Labor Digest" a reputable
workingman's paper, says, as part of
an article entitled THE beginning of
the end OF yGompersism, many organi-
cations 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 OF
his stubborn clinging to policies which
the more thoughtful of the working
men 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 unwillingness of
the men who were mentioned for the
place to accept nomination IN OPP
position to him. In addition to this
there is no denying the shrewdness
of the leader of the A. Il. of l., and
his political sagacity, which has en-
abled him to keep firm grip on the
machinery of the organization, and to
have his faithful henchmen in the posi-
tions 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-