Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1897 — RESENT ALIEN LAW. [ARTICLE]

RESENT ALIEN LAW.

CANADIAN ORGANIZED LABOR TO SECEDE. Canadian Trades Unions Arc Now Striving to Get Ont of the American Federation-Britons Have Taken San Domingo on a Debt. Will Flock by Themselves. As a result of De Barry's vigorous anti-alien work on the frontier, there is a growing movement all along the line among Canadian > trades unions to sever connection with the parent bodies in the States. Recently there was formed in Ottawa, Can., a new body to take the place of the Knights of Labor in Canada. It is known as the Canadian "Federation of Labor, and is prosecuting a vigorous anti-American campaign among the Knights of Labor assemblies in Ontario and Quebec, the two provinces where unionism is strong. The federation claims that the alien labor laws passed by the United "States Congress were the result of agitation by United States trades unioars, and tihey. as Canadians, therefore, do not care to have any further nominal friendliness where none exists. The secession of the Ancient Order of United Workmen "from the jurisdiction of the supreme lodge in the United States is a fair indication dt the feeling that is prevailing rn Canada with regard to the alleged antipathy of Americans to Canada. Britons Take Ran Domingo. United States Consul IV. F. Powell at Port-au-Prince. San Domingo, has noti-fiedtho-State Department at Washington that an English -syndicate has secured control of that island's revenues by loaning the Government $7,500,000. The Britons will collect the revenues for 100 years, and may also-secure possession of Sama a a bay.