Show MR GOMPERS VISIT visit of samuel compere to this city will naturally set people talking about labor and capital and the great issues which are involved he to is president of the american federation of labor this means that he be Is the most moat prominent figure in the organized labor of the united states his plan of organization in ie to be superior to that adopted by powderly and the knights of labor powderly endeavored to unite all trades and callings of an industrial and producing character into one homogeneous whole he excluded from his bia order lawyers and whisky dealers his idea was waa a grand one but like many maby similar projects it did not succeed powderly powderly is gone but compera is ahead the lawyers and the saloonkeeper are on either side of gompers holding up his ha hands ads last night at the banquet a lawyer named powers as honorary member of a trades union indulged ged in some cheap wit about the alliance between plumbers and lawyers mr gompers should understand that as a rule a lawyer who poses as a labor leader is working for a place as corporation and if plumber mr powers should in ina a few weeks be retained as legal ad adviser vaser for a railroad company it will probably be because of his bis pull as a labor leader tu fu his speech last night mr gompers saye the american federation of labar has decided to con concentta concentrate concen centra trae e its efforts in the establishment of the flight hour system let us its content ourselves with this fis today loss if need be tomorrow dont talk to us of bein being glazy lazy while there is one person looking for work the hours of those who do work are too long we propose to deal in a movement that will w ill do more than anything else for the amelioration of the work ingmans condition viz the eight hour system eight hours bours for steep eight hours for work eight hours for moral and intellectual recreation to this I 1 last ast the reply has been get drunk which lim bai continued to be cast at us until we have placed on our bau banners ners eight hours for what we v will ill it is a ous a wicked libel to charge people with intention to get drunk if they kave have more time to them sol selves ves drunkenness dru euness among the laboring classes has decreased in a ratio corresponding to the decrease in the hours of labor the man who works so many hours a day only sleeps at home and eats sleeps dreams of work rather than r ks to li live L ve if you want to improve 6 habits or customs of a people you aust st improve their condition on an average people receive wages enough to pay for their actual necessaries of life or upon which they will consent to live but if the wage workers will insist on living inore decently they will secure the means in wages to do this we maiet auf t have more time to make room for those out of work and because wo we do not want our people brought to a condition of semi slavery no one can object to what is said here it to is a very stupid person who would oppose the betterment of the working classes and it is a very hardhearted person who would impose longer hours of labor |