The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1911-11-18
nE2o n,T OF GGMPERS
70 the FEDERATION
Predicts Great Change n CTR
Me hod of Government
President Of American federation Of
Labor Says Cant Atoyt Mob Rule"
Is Mere orivel-views on
Mcnamara Case.

President Samuel Gompers OF the
American Federation OF Labor. in his
report submitted TO the delegates OF
the thirty-hrst annual convention being
held at Atlanta. Ga. predicted great
changes IN American methods OF GOV.
eminent particularly with regard t.
political parties
lie gayc 20 the referendum. initiative
and recall the unqualified Endorsement
Of organi1ed labor and declared that a
real representative democracy mad
never been known in the United States
because III the general absence ~
those provisions
This standardization of judges he
said In defense Of bis Endorsement.
this sanctimonious cant about mob
rule, some cl which was in Pie itent
Talts nesage yetoing the Arizona
statehooa .lt is mere drweL
Mr Gaptar report which covers
Ska cicsce printed passes AND wuuld
nuke more thaa Thirty columns in q
new raper sass I'd leaves many sub
iects untouched an lnadequately pre-.
seutod III thc main The report de.
clarcs lQr and say organized tabor do
mards
The referendum the initiative and
the recall
Passaae Of the so-called anti-injunc.
ton bills at the next session Of con-
gress
Restriction Of immigration
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Legislation to relieve civil service
employees from the executive orders
prohihiting them 10 petition congress.
Uniform laws for protection Of life
and health IN factory buildings
A department of labor IN the federal
government
Employers liability and workmen's
compensation acts throughout the diff.
ferent states.
Severe araignment Is made OF so
called scientific MANAGEMENT or eff
cheney systems
with the membership now more
than b75O0O0. the creates, Ia rs his
tory, and its financial condition excel.
lent, the organization often called the
greatest altruistic institution OF the
tines. enters the thir.yfrst year Of
it's work" the report says
Labor contentious Of many years
have become merged on have rather
cu-OrdiuateG with those Of The pro
fressiyc of ell parties The people as
"a whole. irrespective Of class, condi
lions, calling or partisan alignment
have declared for freedom I'M Tact, and
not merely in name They are taking
affairs political into their own hands
I'm lieu OF the political boss and
his machine. We shall have leadership
of intelligence. pleading for pgblic
Justice. with adherents propor toned In
number to the strength Of the argu
ments.
.ncec the prevailiuP Svstew ct
cut and dried platforms and stated
nominations. preceded bY fgte uf-
maries. the ballot IN our hands has
not been, in any adequate sense. either
n protecting shield against wro~g or a
means OF redress We may not fer
some TINE be entirely did of the wie
of parties.
"lf they be an evil they are such as
are incident 10 all goycrnmf nts based
on popular suffrage en- / un-
wise, or rather impolitic. 10 waste our
energies now I'm efforts 10 abolish
political parties Perhaps they are in
stitutional in all free governments
But II we can not destroy them. we
many. by more assiduous and regular
exercise Of our privileges and RICH of
citizenship. 60 much IN the way OF
controlling them"
Mr. Gompers takes UP the McNa-
mara case at some length. He ex.
presses he faith in the innocence rf
the men now on trial in Los Angeles.