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The day I* pant when a candidatefor a national political office ran pro :sumo upon the Ignorance of his con- f stltuents In order to ho elected. Mr. Morgan uses thin method, because It would ho unreasonable to suppose lt;Mr. Morgan so grossly Ignorant ofj f current events as his reply In Mon day evening’s News Herald would In dlcate.In Ills reply Mr, Morgan states that labor unions did not come within the provisions of the Sherman anti trust law, yet In the recent ease of I). E. Loewe versus hatters* union the supreme court of the United States awarded the plaintiff $222,000 under the provisions of the Sherman antitrust lawAt the present time suit Is pending In court, Instituted by O. W. Post, against the Buck’s Htote and Range Company and the American Federation of tAbor, asking for $750,000 j H under the provisions of the fvi am I-ti ll’ ihv These eases »all Tc matter of notoriety Mt\d no man.capable of representing tills district jn congress can acknowledge igno- * rsnce of them. \It is not enough to acctiie the of- ( ficlals of the two representative labor bodies In this district of being demo- j crate and socialist* and attempt by ! | methods of the politician to ranee disunion: the fact la, Mr. Leeson, one of the signers of the statement to which Mr Morgan objects, Is as good and staunch republican as Mr. Morgan himself and a more consistent one.Mr. Morgan, by his statements, simply proves organized labor's stand against him Is right and that he will not represent labor’s interests fairly if elected to congress.Signed: If. Montelth, presidentBuilding Trades Council; Charles Leeson. secretary Building Trades C ouncil; H. H. Hull, president Trades Assembly; J. J, Shelby, secretary Trades Assembly.tiHIPT7 kl I r AC£!\ OM DANhna#tnftr*
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Joplin Daily Globe
Joplin, Missouri, US
Tue, Nov 08, 1910
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