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Show MANN ATTACKS QOMPER8 Ci cngo, Sept. 17 Fifty delegates declaring thoy represented a vast army of unskilled "workmen, attended tho opening of the annual convention of tho Industrial Workers of tho World hero today. Tho delegates listened to Tom Mann Kngllsh labor leader, crltizo Samuel Gompers, president of tho American Federation of Labor. "Gompers is a pure reactionary," ho said, "and has gotten far away from a sympathetic understanding of tho needs of tho groat army of borno down, unskilled laborers. "Ho virtually Is at tho head of the "Amorlchn labor trust' Instead of welcoming wel-coming into its membership all who need tho benefits of organization, the 'labor trust' draws a sharp line, ox- , eluding tho unskilled. "If tho alms of any right movement for tho ultlmato emanc.patlon of the working man aro to bo conserved alt workers, skilled and unskilled, must bo wolcorao." |