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TRADES COUNCIL
BALKS AT WILSCH
Second Attempt to Force
Labor to Indorse His Re
election Rails. ,
This is Labors swer to the Attempt
To Deliver the American Workingman's Vote
fTHE labor vote cannot ' be "delivered to the Democratic1 party;
X The bujjc of it throughout the country will go to EtughesWas
the positive declaration of 'Thomas J. Williams, one of the
most prominent trade unionists in the United' States, in course of
; an interview in Pittsburgh on November 1,1916. '
Jiirfie Pilabclpfitalnquiwr
(From The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
October 28, 1916J
MOVE TO INDORSE
WILSON QUASHED
BY LABOR UNION
Central Body, in Stormy Ses
, eion. Tables Resolution
Indefinitely
INDIGNATION GREETS
Mr. Williams is National President of ihe
Building Trades department of the American
Federation of Labor, which includes every
craft in any way identified with the building
(industry. ; "
It has a membership of nearly one and a
half .million men, all mechanics, 'which is more
than fifty per cent of the entire membership
of the organization of which Samuel Gompers
is the head. ' -
IFrcic "" Whington Poat, October 22, Hl
. CHICAGO LABOB FOB EVOKES.
Bonding Tradct Council Hurt PrcaV
dent Wllion Laieki Sympathy.
tpeelal to Tke WaaKlnfftea Peat, t
Chicago. Oct 21. -On brand of or
nofaed labor awung hito lino for
Charle 'Hughea tonight, when tha
Chicago Building Tradea (tounell, of
whlcl! Stmoh O'Donnall ra -praaldent,
adopted raaolutlona urging the defeat
of PreaMont Wilao bcxaua of 'lack
of sympathy with tlr American work
man." . Arthur t Burbank. chairman of the
leglilatiea board of railroad trainman
In nilno.a. laaoed a, atatentont, doelar
Ing that rallrnad arnplorao ara tavnlng
'rom Valdant ,Wllopii .
"It la (he drat Una our national offl
ror have at'tampled to tall ua how we
mual vote, and there are tnouaanda Ilka
myaelf who will not Hand for auch dic
tation." aald Mr Burbank 'r am con
Inead that the aentlmant among Ilia
railroad men for Hughaa la growing
atronger avory day
MrWilliams has just completed a tour pf
the south and middle west, in fourse of which
he talked with representatives of every indus-
r try and addressed seven national conventions
of labor organizations',
"No man or group of men can deliver the
labor vote to the Democratic party," said Mr.
Williams. "The American workingman always
has supported the Republican ticket, and for
a very practical reason.
"He knows that the Republican party
stands for the great principle of protection to
American industry, and'that without such pn
. tection there can be no prosperity for him. The
wage earners of this country today consider ,
the re-establisliment of the protective tariff ;
( system the one great issue before them, and
they will vote accordingly next Tuesday
"N, o sensible laboring man is deceived' by. '
the present abnormal industrial, activity in the ,
; United States. We all kntfw that war orders
from Europe are responsible for it. '
"If the foreign conflict should end tomor
row, the wage-earners of this country would
be confronted with 'precisely similar condi
tions to those which confronted therij during
the first two years of the Wilson admirtistra--tion
idle mills, dead locomotives, men out
of employment, and business depression
everywhere.
"The workingman will vote next Tues-I
day for the Republican ticket'because he will-;
then votef or his own material welfare "
"In my trip through the south and west, I
discussed, the political situation with hundreds
of laboring men. I found no indication any
where of a pronounced trend of sentiment in
the ranks of Jhe wage-earners towards the
Democratic party."
The Republican Protective Tariff protects workingmen's wages without increas-'
ing the cost of living." The Question is shall we have a Democratic tariff that only
pretends to' help the wage-earner or a Republican tariff that really protects him?
Vote
for
Hughes
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Resolutions' Adopted at Meeting of
'the Building. Trades Council of
Philadelphia -
Declnring that Prcfideat jlVilaoa baa
nrnwu himeelf an enemy of - oirianited
labor and that, on tha contrary. Mr
Hut-hee hat thowg hlmaelf'the fntnd of
labor throuihout hit wWe carper. at
nea of molutiona aupporting the candi
dacy of Mr 'Hughea waa paaeed last night
t a meeting of the Philadelphia .Build
ing Trades Council, reprtatntini in all
about 00,000 men Tha meeting waa Jield
in tha Parkway Building, and the reao
lutiona were paaaed airtr a spirited die
cueaion. Prauk J Schneider reaided
'A atanding vote waa taken The reao
lution declared that until hn entrance
into politic at years ago, President
Wilsop lisd proved himself a "harsh,
bitter and unjust critic" of labor uniona.
and had shown by his speeches anJ his
writings, in hit books, that ha had no
sympathy witii the Isbor movement Tha
statement wis sttnbutrd to him that
"Labor unions drained the hitheet men
to the level of tha lowest," and be waa
quoted aa being a "fierce partisan of the
open snop i
The1 passage waa cited from President
Wilsons book. "The History ol the
American People " where he asserted
that the Chineee labor was preferable to
the Polish, Slavonic or Italian On the
other hand, it was declared that Nfr
Hughes had been shown by his words,
hn deeds and hit record, that he had
been a friend of Isbor aod of labor Unions
during his entire' career t v
Mr Huabra' utterance, that he regard
ed Isbor unions as, a fine onporUinity
Mr tha improvement of the condition of
the workingman' was quoted, and hia
statement, ''the interests of labor, are the
microti of all people, and the protec
tion of the wage earner jp the security
ot life and health by every practical
means, is one of the most sacred trusts of
society "
"We vigorously condemn," read the
leaoultion. "the action of labor leaders
in endeavoring to create oppoaition to
Mr Hughes, and with the belief in
mind that all labor unions should bs
kept free from political parties, we urge
all our members, ss well aa I hots of
other unions snd local, to cast their
votes aa their inter eat beat demande.'V
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