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Show DEMAND PROTECTION. I Lives of Union Organizers Threatened 1 at Tampa, Florida. , Samuel Gompers, president of tho American Federation of Labor, has Bent tho following telegram: "Chief of Police, Tampa, Fla.: In the nnmo of organized labor, as well as overy llberty-lovlng citizen, I demand your protection to our organizers, 'James Wood and James A. Itoborts, and others whoso lives hnvo been threatened. Tho men I know to bo law-abiding citizens, who would not bo guilty of an unlawful net. They hnvo n right to organlzo owrklngmen and. If necessary to defend tho rights, to iitrlko for tho enforcement of thorn, If pa other means of redress Is afforded." |