Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1908 — Against Laboring Men. [ARTICLE]

Against Laboring Men.

While William H. Taft is traveling about Ohio and elsewhere making frantic appeals for the support of laboring men, his running mate on the Republican ticket, James S. Sherman, is giving his endorsement to the statement that “labor unions are composed largely of anarchists, socialists and demagogues.” Mr. Sherman heard the organized wage worker of the country thus denounced by a trust magnate who presided at a meeting where he spoke, and gave approval of the sentiment expressed. When Mr. Sherman appeared recently at Akron, Ohio, the meeting which he addressed was presided over J>y O. C/ Barber, president of the Diamond Match Company. Mr. Barber introduced Mr. Sherman to the audience. Tn doing so he made use of the following language, as stenographically reported: "One of the main reasons for the success of the Diamond Match Company is that Its directors HAVE NEVER TOLERATED UNION LABOR IN ITS SHOP. THEY HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OPEN. We have had no one to dictate to us what wages we shall pay, what men we shajl hire, and what hours our employes shall work. LABOR UNIONS TODAY ARE COMPOSED LARGELY OF ANARCHISTS, SOCIALISTS AND DEMAGOGUES.” The Taft campaign headquarters have been transferred to the White House, where government clerks—paid by the people—are being used by Manager Roosevelt without expense to the Republican national committee.