Evening journal., 1918-12-16
THAT LABOR DELIVERY coNsprRAoyi


TT should be humatns for any decent and intelligent
Democratic union labor 10 acknowledge any
member Of tho HaylorHckey Democratic Cancer Clique
OF the Central Labor Union his political industrial
leadorl
II should bo impossible for any decent and intelligent
Republican union labor TO do sol
Equally It should be impossible for any union labor
no matter what his politics may be. to give counen
to any scheme which has for Its purpose the con-
version Of the Central Union It's subordinate
unions into political clubs TO serve the ends OF what
political leader may control hem the partlsans
within those unions whom he controls and employs
Labor unions organized to promote and protect
the interests of In given lines OF employ
ment Their doors open wageearners Of all shades
Of political opinion. They supposed to be non-par
tisan and non-factlona in their conception. their
position, their utterance and their action
That Is true OF Wilmington and It's vicinity as It
Is Of any other industrial centre
But what the facts with respect this districts
The saylor-Iickey Democratic Cancer Clique conceived
the idea that II would be fine scheme, II the union
wage-earners would stand for IT, to deliver the Central
Labor Union and its subordinate unions to political
leader who would make It worth its while. dollars
and cents Jobs, TO do SO
The members OF the clique canvassed tho political
field and ultimately decided that Senator Salisbury
seemed TO be the most likely customer for the deal and
delivery Negotiations were opened terms agreed
upon and members Of the clique took the steps which
they deemed 10 necessary 10 make tne delivery 10
Senator Salisbury Of the Central Labor Union It's sub
ordinate unions and. far they might be able to
do So the members Of those subordinate unions.
II was a scheme 10 factonallze. to partzanize. TO
policaze and to commerclallze the union labor
ment In this section
It was sordid disgracefu damnable scheme that
only OF the saylorHckey Democratic Cancer Clique
type would conceive propose and attempt to carry into
execution
1t was low-browed. venal and dscreditable con-
splracy concoced by members OF the Cancer Clique to
betray the union labor into the hands OF that
faction Of the Democratic party Delaware OF which
Senator Salisbury now and has been for years. the
head
There exists in lower Shipley street inanimate
monument to that shameful and shameless conspiracy
against organized labor
There exist in certain Federal appointments made and
certain Federal salaries drawn ample evidences Of how
well the betrayal Of the labor movement has paid MEM
Of the Clique and their relatives and frends
There exists In black and white the records Of the
Central Labor Union and certain subordinate unions
and in the public prints ample proof Of the desperate
and dsgraceful In which the Cancer Clique en-
make the delivery Of union at the polls
as drovers would attempt to make delivery Of sheep
at the stockyard pens
There exists too in the returns Of the November
election convincing proof that there in state
enough Delaware TO defeat the oonspirators
against organized labor and with them the proposed
beneficiary Of their conspiracy
Il is high time decent self-respeotng and inteli-
gent union wage-earners in Delaware TO put end to
such conditions 10 rid the labor movement here OF
the hungry unprnciped Cancer Clique that is feast
ing and fattening upon It'll