The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-30

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pianec from each of us would mean guarantee OF
One Of the delegates in speaking of Spanish
War, then going on in Cuba and the Philippines, pre-
dd that the result would be increase in the standing army which
ss mamsnSa likeness 70 p Dc u a as thew already
had been used in many other strikes
Federation Labor had chartered organization
Mineral Mine Workers Although they
body became parts of the Western Federation of Miners
should mention here that the Western Federation Of Miners had
delegates the convention Of that organization These delegates
GRAFTON little nothing BY afans with the
f. of They said that the sessions which they had attended had
developed nothing that would be of advantage to the working class
The chief seemed to be the reelection of Samuel Gomp and
other officers and the transfer the @ a Oh o a. At Wash
ington
The initial convention Labor Union which
City the time the convention OF the
wFM made of delegates representing various trades around
Macarthur San Francisco Union
opposed the launching Of the Western Labor Union on the ground that
expressed his support of the Western Federation Of Miners
He forgotten he knew that the f. of itself was
organized in opposition to the Knights Of Labor
Daniel Mcdonald Butte elected president of the
snzaton elected to The executive board The Western Fed
Miners became chartered body Of the Western Labor
While these conventions were session. Sam Gompcrs Henry
White scandal about selling the labels
of his union the United Garment Workers. and Others of Gompers
to urge tho reaflaon Of the WEN with What he
really wanted to address the convention but would have been
being held amusing to the big brOadshoudred men
of
called itself the leader of labor
This squat specimen humanity certainly did not pesOnify the
membership of the American Federation Of Labor Sam was very short
suffering with rngwom He had small swapping eyes, hard
eonaty VAIN eoneeited peuant and vndcvc Looking
could realize the passion and cruelty with which this person would
could plead for who facing the moose of the
his his cheek and his heart reekng with hypocrisy One
realize that he might refer ongy to the defeat of
great labor struggle being conducted by an organization that
strictly with his views To look at him was to
could protest against giving relief women and children
When Gomp had appeared before Governor ogesOy in 1887
Chicago Springfield his opening words were
differed all my life with the principles and methods of the
condemned"
Gompers anything let who the We're
from whose principles and methods no a al mis- e SefeG se
them had been members of the International WOngmens Assoeia
night in the interests Of the strikers at the Mcorm
NJ s1% stoSs, s Union on NAY . 1 poce s sac @
meeting; OF the strikers killed and many OF them were
on May fourth great gathering assembled which addressed
BY Spies Fedcn Carter Harrison Of Chicago
attended meeting notified the police that every
thing conducted in orderly and that the police need
"cst 70 20 hundred and ssvsas poe%en to dprse the
Feen who speaking when Captain Ward gave the order
killed policemen and many Of the workers
Who threw the S w pr.sSs Loss s x%
George Enge Samuel Fielder and Michael schwab They
Jury that was rewarded by the Before
them these men gave to the working class
their principles August Spies said;
In addressing this court speak the representative Of
Of another have been indicted on
the charge accomplish Upon this IN
convicted There no evidence produced by
tho state indicate that had knowledge OF
the that myself had anything to DO with
throwing the missile II there no evidence to snow
that the Decd then conviction ana
the execution sentence nothing less than wu malicious
foul murder as may be found in the annals
Of religious, political any other persecution
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Marx September 49, 1864 Shortly before th
dissolved 1874 Its General Council was moved
TO America.
In tho nert insialc Havpood wris o. tho great trial Of
Chicago martyrs iabo tot for the EohHou Dan Of me
speeches Spies and the others 1oho Impressed nm ana
hcpd franc toWavd tho struggle throughout
hs Hc hated and rejected bv Gompers Havwoods
lifelong cncmy IN The Sopomcmt