Show r 4 c t BOGUS STORY 1 1 r ABOUT PRINTERS g 1 Republican Organ Misrepresents Misrepresents Facts in Effort to Bol Bolster Bolster Bold d ster seer Up Failing Cause Causer r I Iii ii i i POSITION OF THE UNION i v GOMPERS AND LYNCH THINK ALIKE l I t The Intermountain Republican It deeper desper desperate ate in its extremity to bolster bo ster up the i eau cause a of the Republican party came for forward forward forr r ward Friday with the most flagrant at attempt attempt r tempt at deliberate representation misrepresentation mt ml that has hall comp como to tho front during the tue cam campaign This publication reproduces a let ter written by b Norman orman K F McPhail 1 pres president presIdent president ident of o the Boston Typographical union to Willis L I Moore chief of or the weather bureau of or the United States in which Mr McPhail says that he lie does not believe that any man set of or men or party part can deliver the vote ote of or organized labor Pres Presently Presently I there will b bo quoted Mr Ir letter er Meanwhile the article goes oes on to say sa in its headlines Mr Ir Gompers Compers Rebuked by b bT Typographers T Head In Its introduction by a stretch of or imagination and an elas elasticity elasticity of or courtesy courtes the publication tion says This Tills Is iB the declaration of Norman E McPhail president of or the ty typographical t union and thus another voke oke is added to the rising protest protect of or union labor against the attempt of ot Mr Ir Gompers to deliver the vote yote of or free tree American citizens Ignorance and Absurdity As a n matter of fact McPhail Is a pres president presIdent ident Went of the typographical union but he heis heIs heis is not by b any an means the international president He I is the president of oC the Bos Boston Boston Boston ton union There are precisely SO 6 9 other presidents of or equal rank In ht the to Typo Typographical Typographical graphical union with McPhail James Tames M I Lynch is the international president and has been for a number of or years ears Mc McPhail Phail s position is 18 no higher nor has he heany heany I any more authority than the president of 01 the th smallest local union in the land And there Ii is a vast difference between what McPhail really did say sa and what the publication referred to thought It could make sake him say by distorting the meaning of his utterances McPhail remarks were exactly exact In line with the po position position taken by b Mr Gompers McPhail like Gompers says that the wage earner should study stud the platforms of or the two parties carefully and then cast his vote ote as his conscience dictates That Is precisely what Gompers says sars Here Is what Mc McPhail McPhail Ic Phail says sas In reply to the question you ask me I will state that in my m opinion the vote ote ol of organized o labor in this country as a body bod will not and can not be delivered to any an anone anyone one party by b any an one man or set of men menTo menTo menTo To allow such a thing would be suicidal to the labor movement of the tha th country Members of or labor unions as citizens have the Tight and should carefully con consider consider consider sider the platforms and promises of ot the Different political parties and should vote as they the believe the broadest and best In Interests interests interests of ot our country countr lie Ue There can be no objection to this from froman any an source and It Is something which every eYe citizen should do To claim that any an man or set of or men as has been blazoned forth in the newspapers will deliver the vote yote of or organized or labor to any an party Is absurd as it is an impossibility Haying Having finished with ith McPhail it may not be amiss to quote briefly from the circular letter of or President Pre Gompers and his associates on the executive commit committee tee of ot the tho American Federation ot of La Labor Labor Labor bor A comparison between the two to re no difference President Gompers Compers says We e earnestly earnest urge the workers and all allgood allgood allgood good citizens t to consider most carefully and thoughtfully the attitude of the two great political parties toward the funda fundamental fundamental fundamental mental rights and principles embodied in labors demands Stud Study their respective Platforms and then vote yote as your con conscience science dictates On the one hand we e have haxe a Republican Republican lican congress absolutely refusing to en enact enact act the demands of or the workers for right and equitable legislation and boasting g that th t It itt is willing to to take take the consequences Following this action action of congress con ess we have hae havethe havethe the convention of ot the Republican party scorning labors demands and adopting a Injunction plank which Is an insult to the th Intelligence of ot every voter In the land A plank which declares for the continuance and perpetuation p of ot that abuse of or the injunction process In InUs its Us arbitrary application to labor lator disputes Republicans With Corporations The Republican party definitely lines up with the corporate interests of or the country count and defies the people to help heip themselves The Democratic party endorses labors demands and pledges itself to carry them into effect if ir it Is put Into power We u e earnestly ask sk you to make the choice which is is in accordance with the tine best interests s of yourselves ourselves and of all the people if the men of labor and our friends fail to do their duty dub they the will have un tn fr rock t th u ATAn even n worse con enn on dUi n of Of affairs t on s wi than now w obtains bt 5 We e feel that w we e need not do more I than state the facts above outlined Th The workers and their friends have had ex experience experience I in the past PMt yar of or what the party part now In power can do and intends to do The very feeling of or outrage and Indignation which prompted the decision of the workers to u use e their political pow power power er to protect themselves will ill guide you as to how hove to cast j our your vote t tWe We e urge ure the workers to tol take o ap P Ills campaign with the ix ni m mand and energy ener Scan Sean evor een every re CR ildi ord study his party pia OF H deceived by b vague Ya ue is U I assurances of or friendship 1 affiliations be bel cast aside struggle to preserve vr the rw ri n freedom not only of If the he tl t wor I i but of or all the people It Ito JH We o do not address you as a I jia a abut i 1 I but aut as fellow workers to u ns IOU ou IOUI o Republicans Democrats Democrat D or you you i ml t iv I fealty fealt to some other political part parts t i as felloW workmen it is our bounden dos it v vo to o stand manfully manfull in defense derell e of or our ri II as wealth producers and as aM citizens of f flour lour our common country without t regard to toI party affiliation I What President Lynch Says 1 And to wind up the matter it may ma not notI be amiss either to quote briefly from I what J T M 1 Lynch president of or the In International International Typographical T union had to tosa say sa in the last issue of the Typographical T cal ai Journal It is pertinent to the subject sub jet No 10 one in the ranks of organized la labor labor labor bor who is at all ail familiar w with ith the record of Samuel Samu l Gompers during the past I h ht years will be Influenced by b the tho newspaper assaults upon his character The manufacturers association asso and l s organ and the subsidized press of th the country continue to vilify m this thi l leader I a In Inthe inthe inthe the labor movement and ridicule the tho idea that political unity unit is possible p sibie among workingmen The coming corning election will demonstrate whether organized labor can pan be united on an issue involving its rights and principles We Ye should reward our friends and rebuke our enemies Politics and Weather Finally it may ma not be so far out of or the way wa either to have a word about Wil YIl Willis lis his I 1 Moore chief of the United States weather bureau Certainly no one will deny Mr Ir Moore the privilege of writing a letter of inquiry to Norman McPhail if ir so he Is moved moed to do Still in view of the fact that President Roosevelt is so very ver very bitterly opposed to public pu lic servants becoming even remotely active in politics one is Impelled to inquire if Mr lr reply to Mr Ir Moores in InQuiry inquiry has really improved the service which h the w weather eather bureau is supposed to toIve give Ive |