The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-01-07
Don't Weep At
The Ice House.

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
workingmen insist on being heard,
sometimes at the risk of their lives.
Delegate Egan is reported to have
said at the Toronto convention:
eff the officers of the federation
would only adhere to the law we
would think a lot more of them
The Grand Council of the Provin-
cial Workingmen's Assn of Canada
has declared in favor of severing all
connection with unions in the u, S.,
saying "any union having its seat of
Govt in America, and pretending to
be international in its scope, must
fight industrial battles according to
American methods. Said methods
have consequences which are abhor-
rent to the law-abiding people of Can
ada involving hunger, misery, riot,
bloodshed and murder, all of which
might be termed result of the prac-
tical war now in progress In our fair
province and directed by foreign ennis
saries of the United Miners of Amer
ica."
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. 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
willful, premeditated violation of the
law" Simon Burns, general master
workman OF, the general assembly,
Knights of Labor. has voiced severe
condemnation 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. FIe 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, un-
fair and dishonorable methods to-
ward their competitors 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 Iegisla-
ton.
1.-The Labor Digest" a reputable
workingman's paper, says, as part of
an article entitled 1.-THE beginning of
thesend of Compression. many organi-
cations becoming tired of the rule-or-
ruin policies which have been en-
forced by the president OF the A. T..
OF L.
THAT he has maintained his lead
ership for so long time In the face
of his stubborn clinging 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 nm
willingness OF the men who were
mentioned for the place, to accept
nomination in opposition to him. In
addition to this, there is no denying
the shrewdness OF the leader of the
A. F. of L.. and his political sagacity,
which has enabled him to keep q firm
grip on the machinery OF the organi-
cation, and to havehis faithful bench
men 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
martyr to the cause ofNuni0nism.
and excite wave OF sympathetic en-
thusiasm for him. which would carry