The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-16
 DENOUNCES
 GOMPERS
Man Who Became Nationally
 Famous in Colorado Labor
 Dispute Speaks in Bridgeport
Favors Principle of Solidarity in Trades Unionism as Op- posed 10 Trade Autonomy in Organization

About 250 people took a little trip | to Big "Bill' Haywood's Utopia, at | Lyceum Hall, where the former secrc- | tary and treasurer of the Western | Federation of Miners gave a lecture l in the interest of the Brotherhood of | Machinists, 9 new organization and a rival to the International Association of Machinists, which has been organ ized in this city for many years. A | large percentage of the audience were | members of trades unions. A few 1 came to see the man who with Mover and Pettibone was kidnapped in Colo ! rado and taken into Idaho to answer | to the charge of murdering Governor Steunenberg, and acquitted after a | sensational trial.
 | MT. Haywood had no trouble in making his hearers understand what | he thought of the American Fedora | tion of Labor, Samuel Gompers, John | Mitchell, the International Associa- | tion of Machinists, the capitalistic class, the apprentice system and many other ills, that he claimed were be- ing fostered by the misorganization | of workingmen.
 He was introduced by Joseph L. 1 first introduced Robert M. Lackey, general secretary-treasurer of the 1 Brotherhood of Machinists, whose name has been confused with that of l David M. Lackie, the G. A. R. veter- an, who is a member of the local prefaced Haywood's remarks with a statement of his idea of the old or ganizat ton.
 Chairman Ryan in introducing MT. Haywood said: ''He is a thorough in- dustrialist and it is the greatest pleas ure of my life to introduce him." MT. Haywood said: 'I bring to you l a message of hope. The workingmen of this country are not organized in the proper form. I am here in the interest of rebel organization--in behalf of a radical organization. I am with the rebels and radicals for that is where I belong."
 Stop right there. How many vfc- tories have you ever won?" shouted man from rear seat.
 Haywood. The disturber was about to continue when several people shouted to him to sit down. The dis turbing element was the only drunken man in the crowd and later he had to be thrown out by the janitor when he attempted to take a punch at a we'll dressed man who he thought was looking at him too hard.
 The speaker of the evening con- tinued: 1T am here in the interests
 
 cause the International association .s not for the interest of the working man. Headed by dishonest officers it is losing the place it once held as an organization. Back in the seven ties the American workingmen had an organization that was chartered by Congress. But they discovered craft autonomy and since then they have been dividing their house against itself. I fail to record many victories for this new form of organization. l recall the Sante Fe railroad strike called upon the other crafts to come to their aid. The management of the railroad said to the other organiza- tions. If your working schedules with us are any good go back to work They went back and the machinists, left to themselves, lost their fight.
 ''The American capitalists have the finest organization on the face of the earth. The labor organizations are weaker here than in any other coun- O'Connell of the International As- sociation of Machinists is doing all he can to keep labor divided in this country. He is keeping the Western Fed deration of Miners from getting a charter from the American Fedora tion of Labor-for which the West ern Federation should be exceeding ly thankful. for a charter of this kind would do them no good.
 "I want to tell the labor men here tonight that they must do things themselves. There is no labor leader or set of leaders who can lead you out of the wilderness. I am not here to disrupt; I am here to unite. The labor trouble is not a fight between capital and this and that individual union.
 sIt is a struggle between the ex- plotted and the exploiter. The capi- talists own the things you must have access to. or starve. You don't even own your own jobs. Your boss can tie a can to you tomorrow morning if he wants to. You must get on the side of labor and stay there. Solid arity is what I am advocating. Any labor leader who tells you that there is identity of interests between capi- tai and labor is either a fool, or a knave Samuel Gompers is no fool and John Mitchell is not a knave.
 ''There is new era in the history of the worker that is sweeping around the world. I have just returned from Europe tnd I know the spirit there. Russia when oppressed the Russian people, unable to write, decided to present a petition to the Little White Father. They could not write so they decided that it would be personal petition They approached the Win 
 and carrying religious emblems. There were priests in their ranks. It was an orderly gathering. There rang out the crash of the volleys from the rifles of the Czars soldiers and the snow which covered the ground was turned red. That Volley was heard around the world It's echoes have been heard in Finland. in Sweden, in the Riff country where Spain used her army to support an agreement with French capitalists. In Spain where Ferrer was the martyr to the modern school, and it is now being heard in India, where the natives have come to the conclusion that $120,000 900 a year is too big @ price to pay for the privilege of starving beneath the volley fired on that Sunday in Russia is now being heard and the soldiers of @ government, born by a revolu- tion, are being used to harass the men who are fighting the diaz despot- ism, the worst form of governm ent that has ever existed in the days of this so-called civilization.
 "The capitalists are organized throughout the world. The capital ists are responsible for all suffering. They have no country, no souls, no patriotism and their trade marks are the skulls and bones of little children. Their pass word is graft
 'The Steel Trust hts magnificent Morgan and the rest of them have shown to the world that the great in- dustries can be socialized. They have linked the mines. the railroads, the steamships, the foundrfes, the ma- chine shops the selling agencies and