| Show LABOR LEADERS CALL GAIL ON CANNON CAN NOM Speaker Takes Advantage of off i f the Visit to Express Opinion of Mr Gompers LATTER LAJTER ABLE AS ORGANIZER NO RIGHT HOWEVER TO CON CONTROL CONTROL VOTES Washington Dec 7 Speaker Cannon today expressed his sentiments toward organized labor and its leader Samuel Gompers with respect to the th lattes campaign for his the speakers de feat teat the occasion being a acan call on him by b a committee from the local union of plate engravers A set of resolutions commending the speaker for his legis work in behalf behal of ot the plate work workers ers era was presented by the chairman of ot the delegation Charles T Smith In reply Speaker Cannon after atter expressing his hl gratification gra at the confidence nce con conveyed conveyed veed entered into an informal discus discussion discussion sion slon of one man political leadership of organized labor He said that while he bore no enmity to the president of ot the American Federation F of ot Labor he did not believe that union men menas as American citizens would ever accept a dictatorship over their votes That if he ha fere ore re a craft worker he would ally himself with a trade union because unionism has been the vehicle of all progress toward better conditions for tor forthe forthe the and while his fealty i toward organized O ed labor would not way waver wayer er if he was affiliated with it he as an American citizen would hold his fran franchise franchise franchise chise above the right of any leader to direct Ability of Mr Gompers He paid a high compliment to the ability of Mr Ir Gompers as an organizer and expressed himself as an highly sensible sensible seas ble bl of the work w rk done by him within the functions allotted to him as a labor leader and as the president of ot the American Federation In behalf behal of the working man and the country Coin Coincidentally he made It plainly known that he for his part would pursue his own ideas in legislative matters irre irrespective irrespective irrespective to Mr Ir Gompers opposition to some of them He lIe said he knew that In some things Mr Ir Gompers misrepresented the two million men composing the organization which he leads and that Jie the speak speaker er had proved it by appealing to the people peo le from Gompers Compers arraignment of him He said that in his latest reelection reelection i tion there was cast for him a larger I union labor vote than ever before In inI his political life and that he took Ok this I as as a decisive verdict Th e i I marked that nothing In the be resolutions r i Or 61 the visit should be construed as an act of ot disloyalty to the American Fede Federation Federation Federation ration Replying Speaker Cannon said there could be no such misinterpretation of the motives he had no thought of ot attacking the federation president but buthe buthe buthe he felt the occasion one for tor making his personal attitude clear clearS S |
