Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-11-14
President of American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor in Mes
sage to Atlanta Convell-
ton Gives Demands.
STANDARDIZATION"
OF JUDGES is HIT
Taft's Reference to Mob
Rule Declared "Sanct ctimo-
nious Can't; New Gov-
ernmental Methods Seen

samuel GOmpeTS OL lie <AAASAASSAss
Federation Of labor, In his reporS
/ submitted today to delegates gatn'
cred at the thirty-frst annual conven.
tion, predicted great changes in Amer.
lean methods Of government, particu.
larly with regard to political parties.
He gave. to the referendum initiative
and the recall the unqualified endorse.
ment of organized labor and declared
that real, representative democracy
| had never been known In the United
States because of the general absenc0
of those provisions. 4. ;.
"This Standardization of judges
he said in defense OF his endorsement,
this sanctimonious cant about mob
rule some Of which was In President
Taft's message vetoing the Arizona
statehood bill, Is mere drivel.'
President Gompers' report, which
covers sixty closely printed pages ana
would make more than thirty columns
In newspaper, says It leaves many
subjects untouched or inadeQuately
presented.
~ Main Features Of Report.
! = In the main, the report declares for,
and says organized labor demands:
The referendum. the initiative and
the recall # Z. ssSs,s
Passage Of the so.called antiinjunS
/ ton bills at the next session OF con-
gress.
Restriction OF immigration.
| Further restriction of convict labor.
Legislation to relieve civil servtce
employees from the execution orders
prohibiting them to petition con-
gress.
Uniform laws for protection Of lie.
and health in factory buildings.
| A department Of labor in the feder
al government.
Employers liability and workmen's
compensation acts throughout the
states.
Severe arraignment is made Of 10.
called scientific management or eH
ficiency systems.
Federation's Thirty-first Year.
with it's membership now more
than 1,75OO0o, the greatest In its his.
! tory, and it's financial condition OK
cellent, the organization often called
the greatest altruistic institution 81
! the times, enters the thirty.frst yeAp
of its work." says Mr.. Gompers' No
port.
Despite all opposition of the most
relentless kind the American labo1
movement grows and thrives; ito
beneficent influence for the cOmmoN
uplift of labor and of all our peopA
extends to all fields OF useful activity
and Is becoming more generally rec
ognized. The power which labor holds
within it's grasp is understood by our
opponents perhaps better than many
Of the toilers. The fact Is that laA
bor's opponents, like the tories OF the
past, many Of whom are still with us,
are afraid to trust the people.
with power in the hands OF labor
and of the people generally comes =
quickening sense of responsibility.
And though errors are liable to occu1
! they bring experience, and an avoid.
ance of recurrence. The errors Of
encroachments OF the few or Of An
autocrat teach them no lessons ana
are rectifed only by the peoples re.
volt. How perfectly safe freedom ID.
] is truth not yet fully UNDERSTOOD
says the report. N
/ Labor's Reforms Taken Up.
"Labor's contentious of many years
Z have become merged, or have rather
cc.ordinated with those of the pro-
gressive Of all parties. The people %
q whole. irrespective OF class. condl
! ton calling for partisan lignment
/ have declared for freedom in fact, ana
not merely in name. They are tuk.
! ing affairs political into their own
hands. They will no longer tolerate
the sale of legislation to the highest
/ bidder or the granting Of franchises
| to the richest bribe giver. Under tho
!, coming regime assuredly there are to
/ be no more court DEGREES entered 40
prepared in advance and ordered by
the attorney for the stronger party
stronger politically or financially.
In lieu Of the political boss and his
machine, we shall have leadership oe
Intelligence, pleading for public Justice
with adherents proportioned in number
to the strength Of the arguments. Tho
Istuffed ballot-box, the false count, and
! the perjured election returns will like,
4 wise disappear. With these opportunie'
4 ties, with those stimulating induce
ments to free thought and action, the
cause Of public justice will be ad-
4 .ivanced In all directions. Labor, act.
! ling from the point Of enlightened self.