| Show tP I I R r S I ID I E N L I P I S SI I G GoM EnS Addresses Aa r letter i to o Senator Sen tor Philander C lc es I 6 L i l Qu at t Length rl Labor Lt or Leader e de ra State Statement St tel ment m iV alfes Plain a Puzzling Plank Plan in i Bry ry n te le leJ J Platform pl tf r Remedy R medY Analyzed Declares I it i a Sham h m mj j Ephraim m Fe deth on Wind I Will Do Everything Ev H I f n f My iMy Power o r for the Wage arner of o the Country r i i Except Ex c tto to Do D 0 What Wh a t is IS Wrong W rong 1 J Washington Oct Ocl 21 Campaign c Was ns today by ti n nI leUI fr ad nd I hN ed to It United Stales Senator h lU Ir i Q Knox of Pennsylvania u Mi Ii Roosevelt lUYS his ro 10 roto to lg Samuel num pets r president f if Jf lI i Federation of lC Laboi f J ul Philadelphia on Tuesday Kno l nox took Issue Issn with Mr JIll on thc question ot uC Iho lh at al jOl labor in II pre pie preen en c 11 und Ind the to a h 1 In l support of Mr 1 Mi It Roosevelt says I Il ll S LETTER LEIlER I Mv I Senator in your our u 11 o of jou ou oui speak of If the thc action l of Mr Nr Hi van and i certain claiming to be he tho Jho J representatives I of pC among Hum Ml Goni Gom pers to the support of Ing m In n for fr Mr 11 Bryan In consideration tion ot lt JiN 11 to perform certain loin tain acid nominally in the ot C laboi which would bo 10 r either wholly Ineffective or el o of Wl Injury not ID or 01 labor hut but to lo all 1111 eli tIle the country You a light to M C ill on tho questions foi 01 It Il you vou who as V general Hist actively In Invoked the groat of the fed ral on 01 of the tho rights lights of labor when for foi the tho si lime In III IliC hf of the vou rou rH for tho department of jus ju julIN lIN In III a private lawsuit which hud hal gone ono against a locomotive fireman who vho had lost an arm aim In coupling cats car I by b jour Intervention tion I m coined d from the Iho supreme court a II of tho appliance which made It a vital and lefor Imp Hl secured to 10 hundreds ot of crippled and aud of com eom u which they ther would not havo l L Lf f Go RS l l Tho rho dulI papers paper of Oct 13 con contain 1 tain an al open Matter from Samuel 5 n of the 11 0 Amerlean f lr n of labor Jabor appealing to to vole yole for Mr Bryan Bijan Tn which ore t tho Am A public as liS much as those to his hla ap POJ These all allvon von h t o bald In bur and y would tnt ou In nF Mr JIll lo o say sav Mr II States tho Iho attitude of Ills his and himself olf on a sub that la IH of r vital concern to eva y i Including business man manas manus as us c as every ov rV farmer and ever l who 10 looks l to tho Iho com Is for forth tho th of his rights right tAn f Mr t s in Hi his letter asserts a sert J that tho judiciary j of this country Is d hel for un Jr Mn In tho cst Jf te power and he further malco clia r that the means mc by hy which he this l despotism been set bet the tho place of demo I bv b the process of f Injunction n tl n nIn In the courts of f All h Gompers in states slates that his f appeal up nl to the Republican U con convention on nt Chicago for foi remedy against the thu Injunction was as denied dc and he heth then th in goes nes on to state not only that the D party a II remedy rem dS but pr d him the th pat pai thai he hail hai alreadY aheady of Con aro Labors thes then went to the Democratic j pai ty t Ilin t party made mado labors conten contentions contentions its own It pledged Its Ita candidates for fot every office to those whIch I ab l h ll aheady llo rl submitted to t Con I gic lc s sTil The Til last luht In quotation X Indicates Ind J ver v rt definitely tho specific sp remedies tb to which Mi Compels under understands I stands trin li Mi lt Bryans Pl has ms pledged Itself t His statement now makes perfectly pert elly I clear an in Important plank In the UIO Bryan Bryun r Ito It platform which has seem PC jd l to a 0 vast of oC enin eam people who aie 11 h Intel ested 11 In the steady eadY s ad advance i vance of the legitimate o of who car fully read both plat platforms forms fornis to know ki ow precisely what hopes out ut foi f r of oC the thu conditions of ot DEMOCRATIC NC LABOR LABOn PLANK Th plank reads as lS follows Questions of judicial hao havo 1 with In connection Industrial Ind deputes We o deem that tho ii parties to 10 1111 Judicial j should be Ity Il and that tt Injunctions should s not bo be beIs i Issued Is u ll In I I any any cases In h which Injunction Hon tion would w ld not Issue If no Industrial f dispute were ro Involved This is the tho plank that promises tho thoI injunction which Mr against iv I med i Compels asked Mi 1 party In actual al fact f It means absolutely noth nothing ot o the law could bo t ing In no it change based on It no knowledge could foretell what its mean nean meanIng r InS Ing would no man could how any judge would uld eel l lIn i in any y given en case cas us l the plank apparently ent leaves le ve each ea h judge flee fr to say Injunction In a la labor labor when he li Issues an tn bor casks caso or r not It Is case In if f la labor laI Which un l n Injunction bor eie n t involved Yet e this Is 1 Is lr apparently clear to Mr lIr and nty nd In his hIs letter to l his eis he li beyond be ond question just 11 hi 1 stands it to mean lie He I what he i I In assorts that he l e Ins has tut HK His statement t that sido Ido knowledge Mi Bi vans party for or It was Mr Jl lra I who dictated platform which t to remedies H boi had already submitted to Con ConS S Is I a I K clear cem und del nie 1 Ilat The e hr l which Mr 1 lct to Cong ss is ll pf and the Id injunctions n o ht Py li 11 labor o Is easy and aal certain This Is embodied in hous bill Nos 71 of f the s lon of the thc tho i of Cot I which Is 1 eol H i appended f leJ The lh gist of o 11 lin 1 au m Ibe been by ih io tb tl tho f text BIJiL ANALYZED N ZED mr t rl y f order older for f r rIt judge J al a I nn Injunction lojun In ibor dispute es ex It to t l ton nt h l Injury to li lights it specific specifically ally Iy lc no light tp of any tf UI l or 01 at aL lalY any place or or at It fill b hold ld or 1 iu tr Atil td lit 11 in H ty or ol as con ln 1 t it i Hec it It f that ht nothing upon upon 01 ill e by b two l or 01 more Turtles In hi connection e m e to with A labor dj p lo t a I cb 01 or Il cy 01 h j prose nrose lUt such u h imless ue tu u r t 1 n upon would bo unlawful if done by y a I tingle single Individual The bill here described d Is not only the tho remedy that Mr JIB has al leady r ady submitted to Congress N II the one and ami only remedy which lu luand h hIl and Il HI those lh se Io with him In his hl present announced that thal they Ibey will wil accept In the tha matter malter of his grievance against t tho on n the In Injunction junction I su I Tho TJI counsel foi fol tho n Feder Federation of Labor and Mi 1 Compels lu Its president nl are arc on record to tu this ef cf ct At a u hearing l Iho house com committee committee on the ilo i of the l ed of oC Laboi on onn 01 leb lebr n r 1908 as a appeals I from tho pi stated I The bill bi was wU con Jd by at two sessions of the executive council counci of 01 that organization and unanimously un ap Ip proved t was bv hY two 1 I Us national conventions the two tio latest and ant bv by theRo unanimously And An In the thc face faco of the he many man to amend It in In the face of many man d substitutes Bu In the face of or presure from every Oel from high sources and Ind not so sn td cd tho Iho has haf stood by and andIs Is today lOday landing by this bill hi amendment Mi Gompers Introducing this bill hi the same hame committee e on Fob Feh 8 1908 ns os appeals flom the printed went on record as us follows Events have demonstrated clearly clearl to my mind that thero Is only one bill 11 the committee that can at all be 1 to deal with this cl abuse with this invasion I of human rights lights and that thal Is the bill bIl on In hi the tho sama saro pago p go ot or tho hearings henrJ gs MI Mr states I will wil say J think T will ll to lo make my m position clear that that wil thoi American F de on ot Labor has haB so u declared that it must insist upon pon the tho principles Involved I In the tie Perro bill bUI and that I explained as best I l could the tho position 1 of labor that we would rather bo h compelled c to bear beal the tho wrongs wrong which we have hae for fot a IL longer period than to give our assent as nt to tho establishment e of la a wrong be believing lieving and knowing I l that would the and l d which labor the working people arc entitled lcd bill bi then and none other rep rS exactly the relief rol C that Mr i ers demands In tho way of oC anti Injunction legislation and If IC tho state statement ment l In bin hIl letter Jeler Is 1 correct this bill bi what Mr Bryan and his are pledged to in the tho matter mater of antl Injunction legislation The he Injunction plank In lit tho th pa m ma nl sound vague and hazy hazY but there Is nothing vague vage or ha nb Ht this thi bH bill It n ip J mole mor than a 0 bill bi It I is a pro um of the mot most fixed and definite and 1 11 if Mr M Gompers Is la c this bill bi becomes be omes ns It an appen appendix appendix dix to Mr 11 Br ans platform or a n foot explaining in detail the briefer brof r and ICI injunction plank In that plat I WHERE IS 16 MR JR BRYAN Mr lr Bryan Brynn accept It I as such Mr Bry n should sh uld state publicly he ho In fact accepts tho principle prInc of this bill bil which Is the official of ot Mr 11 Gompers and those who stand with him Hi 11 Compel t announces publicly that Mi 11 Bryan Bryans palt has made this pro program gram its own Is I Mi ll Gompers statement u 1 Either Mr lr Gompers G is mistaken as asto to whit what Mr Bryans party party has lIas promis promised ed In the tho matter ot of other Injunction legislation eg or those who dratted his pm tv platform In their haste hate failed to 6 moke his promise e so clear that thal the gentral nok public would understand It pre precisely as Mr fr it Mi 1 Bran Brjan failed In his letter of ac acceptance I to discuss this labor l hor plank of his hl iUt s platform So far fai as all I T am amI aw I ore ho he has failed to discuss It since e eTher I Thero Ther should be such discussion as a I nalter of common c fall ness only on onto to labor lit r but b t to all tl citizens IS alike On Onn n question Niton ot uch gr L consequence ll e eth tho th c il pea aie of entitled to know Mi Buan BI n stands sl li s 1 Air Taft liaf lel explained where here ho he stands ilal In Iii this matter i of of Injunctions I Alp we not to know with wih equal cju 11 l I exactly c c ly Ic Mr Ir Bunn HI stands stand Mi Ul public statements as asto S SIn to In II what his party promised make mike it self that Mr r Bijan pr iid decline hile him himself s bill to the th of which hl pledged od do e he hc IS Mr Bryan Bryal If It that at the right to cany la on a I bu ehi h s l In 1 a i hil be bc not nol rC l as l s a Ii property pr right 01 nr to t protection Jr of oC n hof of equity tin ugh the of f an 11 l and i 11 that the tip light to t protection Iho v Ian shall be b taken awny i v Il The foi t II tI of nf cOln r In his I lr lic rHe p on O Fob leh n r 11 I t Mr lI G n ns II f what l i 1 1 cn 1 nf ll alid 11 Mi Mr Go believed to be h the II of that lon of that bill which the tn tf cany ean on liu ne s R shall not bo bc to pro pio ns as a n light lightA A l tANK Ills HIE words ate arc Suppose that bv hy 01 11 s In the com eom community 11 lit us av a bj b or per pei perta oi 0 picketing away from the ta those to t a state of utter helplessness h Jess and then was as not nota a n wheel moving not a II process in aton and unel company having no noh h at all thit would bp b 1 an J enco ence with his tight right to do business hu and HII foi fm that I say sa lip hr has no w right lo 10 be he by b Injunction Is TH Mi 11 la an In pledged to this point of view Will VI he hc definitely say In writing or In n public ml ne ho believes with Ml 11 that HIP lJ protection hele fore foro by b the of or equity to the right to carry on 01 a 1 lawful s sIn In a tul w Is despotic power and ana that the judges who that ato li responsible alo So far as s Ihl second section of oC the bill Is lt I is perfectly clear that it would legalize t galze the blacklist t all boycott ed lo 1 any an It would legalize acts have hae time and again been declared op oppressive unjust and nl by b the best and most nt labor loaders the ts es Does OS Mi r Bryan Dryan with Mr Gompers Gomp that he and Ill that pait of the labor movement that 11 l agrees n een with wih him hl n nha has ha the right moral and should be given the right light legally galY to or destroy destro with Impunity tho business of an I Innocent third p against whom he or or they have h v no l o e simply because be this third person io e lo to Join us with them aggressively in a I labor with tho mal ical merits meris of which he ha may bp hI un unacquainted acquainted because c lie he lotuses to class elaRs 1 as his enemy any an and Ind every other othol whom f ey y point out as aa their enemy n m he refuses merely Ul their order to eato some other employer by b ceasing all business Wll him CRUEL OPPRESSION The blacklist and the secondary boy bor boycott cott aio aro two of or tho most eru forms form of slon ever eve devised by y tho wit of man foi the infliction Inkton of Buffer Buffering r rIng ing on 01 his weaker ml cr fellows No N court could possibly any anymore an more 1010 br taJ unfeeling oi or despotic power powel than Mr Compere claims for himself and his l legis which permit them with without out o t let Jet or or hindrance of any kind to car carr cai cairy ry r on cory form to Im and degree of oC the secondary boycott The rho commission ns as and an distinguished a body of oC men as s over passed judgment jl on an nn industrial question queston thus to tho thI secondary form of boycott that thai Is I the thi boycott of innocent persons pers refusing to to take an aggressive part in a contro when they thc have ha no concern To say this is II rot to deny deh the Ie Ie gal right of any mon man or ct et of men voluntarily to refrain from social s inter intercourse course or 01 business relations with any an whom he or they the with wih or or with without wIthout out good reason dislike This may some somo times bo b unchristian but it is not Illegal But Bul when It Is a 1 concerted of a number l of persons not on only only ly to abstain In themselves fl t such but to lender ronder the life fe of oft be t miserable by y persuading and intimidating others to refrain such Buch Is s a u malicious oto and Ild the l to t accomplish It It Is Isa i a ct common law l and r rj in j anil Ilin should the punishment lue l et to sl such n The commission c h stites that this boycott th can bo bc to t un u extent which Was c Ml h Mitchell president ire ot the United Mine ln V lk IR of In his testimony liy n f lo the th commission and certainly dc Ile the t orfil and la h g citizens cU Ij BRYAN AGI E r GOM GOI PE BOOB D Mr I with wih Mr tr Gompers Iori that t t all al tn legal lal ie re the of do o oJ J Kice ce of i the the boycott bu itt should bo o Ith that the excommunication cation of t th Innocent merchant lilio rt who ho to Wj nd r t unquestioned Hu nb obedi obedience ence to o the o ler ot of Mr 11 should Uld be le II d and encouraged or orn dues n lib us Ul and with Ih Mr lr el and laboi 1 l who vho differ Uffe with M r rs In this matter than this l li 1011 of f the boycott Is mor ly n that liat laboi at t ai should with Its Ili enemies ei and re tho lights ot nc tint that Innocent panics s should not uL b b eo r ed Into Ino tak taking ing sides in il industrial lI u disputes to lo which they itro In hi no q degree c patties parte under poll p nal illy of or having theli business at attacked It tacked and M l AltI l Mr MI Taft is un on this pi IJ i position i Win ro does Ml I 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