Show I aO AND MITCHELL DISAGREE The New York En Evening ning Post and other trust trust- c controlled enemies of labor are enthusiastic in t their I f r efforts to stir sUr up bitter feeling at the annual convention con conven tion of the Federation of Labor by bJ representing that thai Samuel Gompers Gompel's and John Mitchell have bave 10 locked I ed horns in a fight for fOt the presidency of the the- national body The truth is that Mitchell has declared ed that the use nse of his name in connection with the presidency presidency dency deney is unauthorized and he favors ors the election of Gompers This will vill unquestionably be bec c carried out out- While Mitchell and Gompers s are friend friendly friend friend- friendly ly their ideas us as to lo the policy the big organization org should pursue are the real leal causes of division in ill the ranks of labor Comers S is for autonomy of crafts in trade unionism This means that he miners mi nil ners compositors silversmiths machinists to be lC separate unions of their different trades Mitchell would form them into a single union if it wei were pUS pos sible Bible for them theta to he be at WOI work to together ethel in o one l indus try He TIe is for fOl industrialism He ile organized all the themen themen themen men working in the mines into the thc United lcd MineWorkers Mine Mine- I Ii ne Workers of America Their separate unions were blended into one He won the anthracite strike sti-ike because because be be- cause of that elimination of separate crafts it il is iH con tended In Iii industrialism all the workmen in a magazine mug mag azine office for example would form one union It Jt would include compositors linotype s setters tl lS l'S machin ll- ll rs- rs p photo engravers toe g lver Pt pressmen mailers electricians t stu stationary engineers firemen drivers and amid bookbinders To fo imp impose a d de demand de- de I mand the union would not have to wait for fOI various meetings and anI varied officers It could decide a strike in ill a da- da day daThe The objection to that is traditional The engineers SO say If after we had been enrolled in inthe inthe inthe the Magazine l union we quitted our work for the magazine and went into a boot loot and shoe factory we would have hac to be enrolled there in a boot and shoe Rhoe union If we left heft our places there for a cigar factory factory fac fac- tory we w-e would have e to fo be enrolled enroll cd in a union We Ve would lo lose e our identity We Ye would not know if we Se were engineers shoemakers hers kers or magazine men But these are only the time general lines of the argument which is so RO complicated that it will require e such leaders ead rs as Gompers and Mitchell to reconcile the time different While the two labor giants disagree a as to the proper Cl solution solution tion of th these se important all principles tile they will not indulge in factional warfare in attempting to force a settlement of them as the trust or organs ans hope The difficulty culty bet between Mr Mi- Shaffer on the time one side and Mr 1 Gompers and Mr r. r Mitchell on the other on a charge that the latter were in not supporting supporting sup sup- porting the time Amalgamated association in its fight in 1901 is an nn old one and will hardly be likely to dis disrupt dis dis- rupt rapt the federation A A. disruption at this juncture would be most unfortunate The Tue leaders are arc great enough to bury their personal differences and work voik for the greatest good to the greatest number I |