Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1925-09-18
EXCERPT OF ADDRESSES
DISCLOSE SOUND LOGIC
AND INDISPUTABLE FACTS

eonelukson, Aua sound tAets Mhlch can
not be distorted into meaningless
plat.tades that arc characteristics of
many conventions, sounded the key-
note Of every address delivered irom
the convention platform this week.
Preslaent Walker presented glow
lhg report of the progress OF Organ
ised Labor IN Illinois as the initial gun
oi The convention, Nei in the history
of the Labor movement In this state
has report carried such an emphatic
an optemlstle nate OF progress based
upon actual facts and figures. IL Was
IA report 10 inspire every delegate TO
more fealous activity IN the interval
Of practically every cause Tor which
! Organized Labor stands. The promise
OF continued triumph eNef the toes OF
/ Trade unlonism was implied IN the
/ speeite recital Of achievements which
have hoen wrought during the year
IN the state legislature, IN the night
against the unseNpulaos methods OF
capitalism aud in the Nefy heart Of
the Labor camp as we'll,
/ Probably the most lnspiratlonal adj
dress of the sessions so far WAS that
given by Kate kieharids O'Hafe, rep
/ resentatiYe of the International unipn
I hA baintNA NNih'le VI NHitAAtAs
| Mu, Onarc spoke at the Tuesday
morning session ufElng members Of
Organized Labor TO purchase only such
garments as bear the Union label,
| her address contained an emphatic
| denunulalipn of the method and puf-
pose of modern prison labor and
showed clearly the impossbili,y of
procuring scientific management OF
- Al a
crime in prisons 80 long aS convict
labor IN farmed out to the highest
bidder for illegisimnte profit, and tn
lunfaif competition 10 legitimate I.ahon
! Mrs. 0'lae. unlustly sentenced 90
five years imprisonment in the Mis-
| snun penitentiary as a federal pTls-
oner during the late war, spoke from
personal knowledge of actual prison
conditions where convict labor Is sold
for profit She pronounced the Amer
lean prsons hotbcds of corruption,
crime and disease, aud declared that
garments made under the present sysa
tenn of convict labor arc the chief car
ficfs of disease germs TO the men,
women and children OF Organized La
hor. Purchase garments which bear
the Union label and YOU will not be
wearing disease carriers" said Mrs.
lOIlare. Her address was received
with one of the greatest oyations
given any speaker dutin" the conven'
ton.
Frey Addresses Convention
Following the address of Mrs.
!, O'Hare, President John l.. Frey. Of
: the Ohio State Federation OF Tabor,
spoke briefly OF Labor war against
the corrupt injunction practice and
vindicated Trade unioinsm In It's do
tefmined opposition TO the injunction
method.
Declaring Labor's loyalty to the
judicial department OF cur govern
mcnt he said mo one has greater
faith In courts than ourselves. But
disobediencc to tyranta ~ obedience
10 God--so disobedienee 60 inIunc-
tions Is obedience 10 the constitution
Of the United States.
III We had obeyed all laws we would
have had no trade unioniem today.
II the founders of British Trade Un-
ionism had not been law breakers
they would never have been able 20
organize public opinion until the con
spiracy act could be repealed. be-
lieve In law, but | believe Ia human
liberty aB much as law
/ Frey declared IN conclusion that the
greatest victory, that of securing In
lduatfial freedom, is ahead I'VE have
political and religious freedom, but
We need industrial freedom 20 com
plete the sacred trinity Of freedom
J. W. Becker
J, W. Becker, director Of the Illinois
! tuberculosis League, with headquar-
ters at Springfield, expressed gratiii-
cation for IabOr's cooperation In
aiding In the elimination Of the white
plague in the state of Illinois.
! Declaring that tuberculosis Is still
! the worklnPman's chief enemy In the
Gu eRofy Of disease he pointed out
that the death rate due 10 the white
plague IL being rapidly lowered
! through the intensive battle that has
been waRed against il during the last
sixteen years.
| He urged members of Organized
Labor 10 fight the plague by demand
! ing cleanliness of surroundings instead
/ Of filth and squalor where germs Of
disease breed
Small Commended
lu several addresses during the
convention Governor Len Small was
commended for his activity In the in
terest of Labor, and particularly for
his action in pardoning members Of
Organized Labor who had been un-
justly arrested, tried and convicted in
courts which were apparently antag-
onistic toward Labor At a meeting
/ Of the Painters Union last Friday
/ Governor Small President Walker
and Charles l.. Mariner, of Local
iSO, were commended for their "a
tiyity in procuring the passage Of laws
] fnNnrnhlp IN Ihn nrinni nlnn nf I.ahnr