Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-01-28
UNION LABOR OUT
WITH SHARP STICK.
(From Wednesdays Daily
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Wy w LiACiu JOiSS.I
WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 10
Organized labor is after the vii
son administration with a SHARP
stick.
Secretary of Labor Wilson is now
the target for a large amount o.
criticism, generally throughout the
country, and the administration as
whole is giving offense to the
American Federation Of Labor.
In an editorial in the January is
sue OF the American Federationist
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation OF Labor, crit
icises the Wilson administration for
permitting indictments OF union la
Dor men under the Sherman law
He declares this law to be 9Th,
most serious menace to the labor
movement which now exists"
The law as now interpreted and
applied" said Mr.. Gompers, in his
editorial, has proved useless in
establishing control or regulation
over the trusts and monopolies. In
Il spirit OF glee these same monop-
olies and trusts and corporations.
unframed by the law which was TO
have regulated them, now turn this
law against the human beings who
were to have been protected"
Mr.. Gompers demands that the
give substance to its
conviction" if it is mot in favor o,
outlawing organized labor"
Last summer-th Department Of
Labor, in the urgent deficiency bill,
asked for large appropriations which
for the most part were refused by
congress. Neither the house ap-
preparations committee, headed BY
Chairman Fitzgerald, nor the Sen
ate committee, headed by Chair
man Martin, was willing to give
like what Secretary VII
son asked. Now, the department
IS asking liberal appropriations for
the next fiscal year. 1t remains to
be seen what congress will grant.
Leaders OF organized labor are no,
slow in voicing their suspicious that
there is an attempt on to cripple
the department by withholding
needed funds.
Secretary Wilson also has ste
ceeded in getting himself made the
target for bitter attacks since he
made his recent Seattle speech. This
address was made before the Amer
can Federation of Labor. In ii
Secretary Wilson took the ground
that private property is held at the
will of the public and that it is not
for the owner of prop
erty to do as he pleased with it in
disregard of the public interest.
This speech, in which Secretary
Wilson took the ground that unless
owned properties were ad-
ninistered in due regard for the
public welfare, the public could
take them over and see that the
public welfare was conserved, caused
1 furore at the time. 1t was only
with difficulty that President Will
son stopped some of the conserva-
ives in congress from demanding
IN inquiry into Secretary Wilson's
Since then the clamor
against Secretary Wilson has kept
Up.
The National Founders union,
With headquarters in Buffalo,
through its president, William H.
Barr. IS out in a document in which
t severely criticises Secretary vii
son and his administration of the
Department of Labor. 1t attacks
he Seattle speech. 1t charges that
lie has taken a prejudiced course in
lealing with the Michigan copper
trike situation. 1t charges that at
he outset OF his administration OF
he Department of Labor he pursued |
: partisan course. With the strike
IN in the upper peninsula of Michi- |
.an, with the coal strike on in
Colorado, and with other labor trou-
lies either on or brewing, there is
.oing to be plenty of activity 50
ar as the Department of Labor is
!