Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1909 — ATTACKS SAMUEL GOMPERS [ARTICLE]

ATTACKS SAMUEL GOMPERS

Committeeman Objects to Report Made to Manufacturers. New York, May 18. —An attack on organized labor broke the routine of the first day’s session of the National Association of Manufacturers. Before a report on industrial education was read, it became known that Frederick W. Senyer of Milwaukee, a member of the committee, had refused to sign it on-the ground that it contained unwarranted attacks on labor and further, in his opinion, the personal views of the chairman of the committee to the exclusion of other members. A reference to Samuel Gompers to which Senyer particularly objected, reads as follows: I “To put organized labor in charge of a movement in the Interest of industrial education and trade training, would be like putting the lamb in the care of the wolf or the chicken in care of the hawk. Witness the efforts of Mr. Gompers and his lieutenants to secure class legislation in congress, their attacks on the power of the courts to issue injunctions and their proposed amendments to the anti-trust laws.” Anthony Ittner of St. Louis presented the report. He declared that some of the methods of organized labor are “damnable.” '