Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, November 6, 1916, Page 8

(From The Philadeiphia Public Ledgen, SR A October 23, 1916.) MOVE TO INDORSE WILSO4 QUASHED BY LILBOR UNION sion, Tables Resolutien Indefinitely ' INDIGNATION GREETS | ' — (From The Weghingtan Post, Octaber CLiilAGOLABOR FOB HUGHES, ' ‘lnnsm!-g Trades Couneil Says Ifi-‘-‘ dent Wilsen Lagks Sympathy. $pecisi o Pay Washingtea Post. Chiosge, Dot 81.~Qnd brensh of gr- sanized lsbor swwng inte lae for " Artber D : Negialative h::d .flfln-lx e in Nlinois, jesned a satement wfl oz thec reiiroad amployes ave turning [from President Wiagn Suffery. oot lmmediate rupumet 7Y Indicatig, eratiy o2l standargs cne, 1east fave oz L 2% af ing Pesponsible, This is Labor’s Answer to the Attempt To Deliver the American Workingman’s Vote “HE labor vote cannet be delivered te the Demeocratic party. The bulk of it threugheut the country will ge to Hughes was the pos- itive declaration of Themas J. Williams, ene of the most prominent trade unionists in the United States, in course of an interview in Pittsburgh en Nevember 1, 1916. Mr. Williams is National President of the Building Trades department of the American Fed- eration 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 mere than fifty per cent. of the entire membership ef the erganization of which Samuel Gompers is the head. Mr. Williams has just completed a teur of the south and middle west, in course of which he tatked with representatives of every industry and ad- dressed seven national cenventions of laber ergani- zations. “No man or group of men can deljver the laber vete to the Democratic party,” said Mr, Will- iams, ““The American workingman always has supperted the Republican ticket, and for 2 very practical reason “He knows that the Republican parfy stands for the great principle of protection o ican industry, and that withour su(;I]Fhe ect magbe_tp can be ne prosperity for him. wage earners The Republican Protective ‘Fariff protects workinigmen’s wages without increasing the cost of ktng. The question is shall we have a Democratic tariff that only pretends to help the wage-eamer or a Repubffican tariff that really protects him? of this country teday censider the re-establishment of the protecfive tariff system the one great issue befere them, and they will vote accordingty mext ‘Fuesday. “Np sensible laboring man .is deceived by the resent abnermal industrial activity in the United States. We all knoew that war orders from Europe are respensible for it. “If the foreign conflict should end tomerrow, ?xe wage earners of this country would be con- ronted with precisely similar conditions to those whieh' cenfronted them during the first two years of the Wilson administration—idle mills, dead Toco- motives, men out of employment, and business de- pression everywhere. “Fhe warkingman will vote next Tuesday for Ibg Republican ticket because he will then vote or his pwn material welfare. “f tflg through the south and west, [ dis- @ussefi_? & palitical situation with hundreds of lab- pring men. | found no indication anywhere of a renaunced trend of sentiment in. the ranks of the Wwage-earners towards the Democratic party.” Vote for Tatic tariprp e rm&b’: f;S&ster Repub °fr° tee F‘%é V-ebta tem ‘iepubx and 2 posatha, eket, beu:si,fz“’”' e depondeq Potadadyia 3 i b Feeltu Fbvehy e \ SRR i} to the level of the, = H shop g3