Show PRISON HAS NO TERRORS John Mitchell Proposes to Speak and Write in Favor of Boycotting Obnoxious Em Employers Employers Employers When He Gets Out DECLARES HE IS PROUD OF BEING AN AMERICAN But Says He Wants Real Lib Liberty liberty Liberty erty and Not That Freedom Recently Enunciated by Some of the Courts Judges MAKES DRAMATIC SPEECH Toronto Ont Nov Now 17 Endorsing a re report report port p ort of the committee on boycott John Mitchell one of the three officers of the American Federation of Labor under sen en t enco for contempt of court made a dra dramatic dramatic dramatic matic speech to the convention He dei de d ared d that so far as he Is concerned ro re regardless dg ardless g of consequences he ho intended while at liberty to declare the rights guaranteed him by the constitution The report which drew forth Mitchells speech s and which was adopted by the con convention declared We say sa that when your cause Is just and every other remedy has been em employed employed without result boycott we say sa that hat t when the employer has determined to t o exploit not only adult male labor tabor but also women and children and our reason reasoning reasoning ing i ng appeal to his fairness and his con conscience science s will not sway him boycott We tte say that when labor has been opposed browbeaten tyrannized boycott we say sa that when and political conditions become so baa ball that ordinary remedial measures are fruitless boycott bocott and final finally finally finaly ly l y we say we have a right to boycott and we propose to exercise that right In the application of this right of boy boycott bo cott ott c to paraphrase the president Gom Gompers Gompers Gompers pers we propose to strive on and on Cheers by Delegates The convention broke into loud cheer cheering InS ing i ng for Mitchell as he concluded and there were cries for tor Morrison The secretary did d id not respond President Gompers was absent a Mr Mitchell said that he realized that every very e statement made by those on the convention c floor and especially those who whon on o n next Monday would have to deliver themselves t to the court Is being beIuS closely scrutinized s I want the people of the United States to know my position he said aid s sI I 1 shall not speak defiantly but butI I shall not surrender any right guaran guaranteed guaranteed tc teed eed t to me by the constitution of ot our QUI country c If Jt I know myself not any a amount of suffering will persuade me ins that I 1 have not flot the tile right to spend my money moner where here w I pie please so or that I 1 have not tho the right ight r to write and speak sJ lc as I please pleaser p ase aser r ra tbt Irth W 1 Mt being g gt to taken t t ken at a Washington ton of o the utterances ut r of o f men man on the floor of this convention cOlw and a nd 1 I want mt clearly to state my I 1 propose In the future as I have haye In Inthe Inthe the he t past to exercise the rights secured to t o me by the fathers of or my country and andI I 1 propose if It I am sent to jail to declare gain again a when I come out that I shall not notor for f af or myself purchase any product of tho the Buck B uck Stove Range company I J make this his t declaration not to tickle the ear of any a ny man but that I may publicly de declare delara lara clare c the conviction that is 15 within me mo nb Lesson for Labor It seems to me that the whole proceed proceedings proceedIngs ings should prove a lasting lesson to the th workingmen of the United States and IUd Canada anada C If all aU the workingmen had been true t tru rue to themselves there would not have h ve been b een a nonunion product on the market I I repeat that so far as I am concerned and md a nd let the consequences be what they may ma I 11 intend while at liberty to declare for f or the rights guaranteed to me by b the o organic laws of my country I am proud of Jt o f being an American Mr Mitchell said he had grown up as asan asIn an In a n American with a stepmother so poor that hat t she could not buy bread and told how tIOW h ow he lie had h d crept out of bed at night to get g hg et his fathers soldier coat to keep him warm wann But I want walt to see the American tand stand for all the sentiment nt that Is sym SID symbolized b by the flag flap ol oj our country he continued c J 3 want real r l liberty Ido I dO not believe b In the liberty enunciated by some of o f our courts that men and ana an women should have h oh lave ave the right to work WorIc works themselves to death leath d I 1 do not believe In the liberty enunciated ted by Judge of Chicago who de declared lared ared unconstitutional the law lawor lawor for or women and by the act compelled hem them to work 14 hours houts hou s a day da Mr Mitchell said Bald he believed the pres pros present ent mt nt proceedings proceeding would bring home to the tho eople people tho the necessity of working In con concert conIs conart cert art certIs artIs Is the time going to come on our con continent when the tho badge of faithfulness to abor labor must be the brand of Imprison Imprisonment ment nent he said In conclusion Surely I hope lOpe ope not I hope that the government may nay be BO so conducted ed that no citizen may feel eel that he be has not been given justice and md nd an equal right with every otner otier cit citizen izen zen |