The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1911-11-13

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cideIt to all governments based on
popular suffrage ! deem 1t unwise,
or rather impolite to waste our en-
orgies now in efforts to abolish polit-
ical parties. Perhaps they are in
stitul;onal in all free governments.
But ii We can not now destroy them,
we may. by more assiduOus and reg
| ular exercise of our privileges and
rights OF citizenship do much in the
way OF controlling them.
Under existing conditions. xe
must obtain various measures of leg
islation at the hands Of dominant
parties in legislative bodies, and II
PARTY affairs are to remain in the
hands OF corporate agents and cor.
rupt bosses as heretofore. then our
! interests will be imperiled and the
/ desired relief retarded, no matter
which party has the majority"
Mr.. Gompers refers very briefly to
the contempt of court proceedings
against vice-President John Mitchell.
Secretary Morrison and himself.
which are still pending before the
courts in the District of Columbia.
The Mcnamara case, however. is
taken up at some length and fully re-
viewed. President Gompers express
ed his faith in the innocence Of the
men now on trial at Los Angeles for
alleged dynamiting Outrages and de-
nounces in unmeasured terms their
removal from Indiana to California.
The Wilson bill. now pending In
Congress, a so-called anti-inJunctiOn
measure, which has the support of
labor, is warmly endorsed and Pres
ident GOmpers calls upon all organic
ed labor to work for its early pas
sage. Mr.. Gompers expresses the
belief that by united action the
Wilson bill may be passed at the next
session, and he expresses the opinion
that even should 1t be vetoed by Pres
ident Taft a great victory would be
partly won. He declared labor could
expect little voluntary help from the
President on the anti-injunction leg
islatiOn.
To the subject of immigration,
much of the report is addressed.
Several plans are proposed for bring
ing the migratory labOrer into the
rants Of organized labor.
Farther restriction of immigra-
ton is deemed necessary and schemes
of distribution of immigrants are
discussed.
Turn which way we may, the fact
Invariably c0nfronts us, In our en-
deayol to amcliOrate the LOT of the
labOrers now in America, that there
must be IA restriction of immigration.
Restriction, as recommended by the
United States immigration Commits
sion lis, il not the first step toward
organizing migratory iaborers. at
least an essential step There are
sufficient workers on the Pacific
coast at the present time. were their
shifting about intelligently syste-'
matized. to perform all the pressing
work there throughout all the sea-
sons of the year. The main trouble
has been that the employers have
not paid any adequate attention to
the laborer as a social entity except
at the moment when one is to be
hired. Society has not concerned it.
self seriously about the casual work
err.
The early completion of the
Panama Canal, however. will with
out doubt bring about a total change
In the labor situation of the Pacific
coast both internally and with rela-
ton to other countries. 1t has al
ready been calculated that immi-
Grants from Europe may be landed
via the Panama canal at Pacific
cost seaports for a less sum than is
required to pay the passage to in.
land points in States of the Middle
West Ii is to be remembered that
the enormous fleets of foreign YES.
sells which are in the immigration
trade are seeking business the world
over. In a single year. aided by the
, climate. the present transatlantic
; fleet could carry 500. o0o wage-work.
ers from the southeast of Europe t.
the Pacific coast ports. while alsC
transporting the average yearly mum
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