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effect than influencing direct em
ployment by the government in ac
cordance therewith. Ho furthermore
mado plain that in any form of em
ployment, excepting that so circum
scribed, ho believed the full employ
ment of union men was preferable to
non-union or "open shops "
In view of tho publicity given this
subject, tho oxecutlve council of tho
Amorican federation of labor takes
this opportunity to say that the
trades' union movement stands for
strictly union shops, experience bav
ins proven that where the xopen shop"
system has been tried, reduction in
wages and profits have ensued with
genoral disaster to tho industry prac
ticing that system, and therefore de
clares that tho bost interests of tho
labor movement calls for tho employ
ment of union workers and discour
ages in every way, shape and form
the deteriorating offects which follow
the recognition of tho "open shops."
The tolling masses, and particular
ly tho organized wage earners, cannot,
must not and will not surrender one
, Jot, of that which they have secured,
must organizo tho yet unorganized,
unite and federate those already or
ganized, to present a solid phalanx
of tho grand army of labor, in earn
est and emphatic protest against ju
dicial usurpation or capltallsticinva
sion of our rights, attempted no mat
ter by whom, or from whatsoever
source.
The hope for right and justice here
after, as well as the perpetuation of
liborty and our republican institu
tions, lies in organized labor. There
fore, with the consciousness of the
justico and soundness of our position,
we appeal to tho judgment of all men,
and particularly to the toilers of
America, that they organize and fed
erate without regard to trade, calling,
nationality, locality, sex, politics, col
or or religion. Frnternallv vours,
SAMUEL GOMPBRS,
President.
JAMES DUNCAN,
First Vice President
JOHN MITCHELL,
&,.. Second Vice President
JAMES O'CONNELL,
Third Vice President
; . MAX MORRIS,
v Fourth Vice President.
THOMAS I. KIDD,
Fifth Vice President.
,,. ..D. A. HAYES,
'- V. smh Vice President
'"" JOHN B. LENNON.
' r Treasurer.
FRANK MORRISON.
Secretary,
Executive Council American 'Federa
tion of Labor.
Staunton (Va.) Spectator: Those
very near and dear to the president in
form us that "Us excellency never
reads what is said about him in the
newspapers." But this may not pre
clude him from reading what is said
about other people, General McClellan
for instance.
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Waiting Tho "National Honor Brigade.
West Union (0.) Defender: The men
who compose tho coal and meat and
other trusts find it very convenient
to refuse to tell the truth under oath,
as it would incriminate them. Very
well. The burglar, the robber, the
murderer, and the common thief are
excused from telling the truth for the
same reason. The "excuse" is o bet
ter in one caso -an in the other.
Rochester (Ind.) Sentinel: Senator
Eeverldge told the state bankers' as
sociation, at South Bend, that there
will be "no radical financial legisla
tion next term of congress." Why
any legislation at all. Didn't the re
publicans settle the money question
for all time when they passed the
single gold standard law? They said
they did, and why are they talking of
changes so soon?
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