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"Greatest Menace To This Govern
ment That Exists Inside or Out.
side the Pale of the National Do
main Are Labor OrganiEatiO ns''-
Strikes and BOycOtts, Should Be
Made u Felony.
Washington, June In. +. Thompson,
secretary Of the southern industrial conven.
tion Of Huntsville, Ala. made q somewhat
sensational attack upon labor unions ,3eIore
the industrial commission today. Labor
organizations,' said Mr.. Thompson, ARE the
greatest menace to this government thai ex,
lists Inside or outside the pale OF our national
domain. Their influence for disruption ana
REORGANIZATION OF society Is far more danger.
ous to the perpetuation Of our government IN
It's parity and power than would be the nos
tile array on our borders of the armies Of the
entire world combined
Mr. Thompson declared that he made this
statement from years of close study, and q
field of the widest opportunity for obserVa'
n. IN embracing the principal industrial GEN.
fers moth of the north aud south. In support
OF his statement he said that 'on every hand.
ard for the slightest provocauon, all classes
OF organized labor stand ready 10 lnaugurate
a strike with all It's attendant evils and that
in addition to this, stronger ties OF consolida.
tion are being urged over the country among
labor unions with the view OF Delng able 70
inaugurate q sympathetic strike that VIII
embrace all classes OF labor simply to redress
this grievances or right the wrongs OF one
class, however remotely located or however
uQiUSt may Do In6 OCtnanuB Oh Ludt Ciaeo. ~
asserted that organizations teaching such
theories should be held as treasonaole IN
their character and their leaders worse than
traitors TO their country.
are open and avowed socialists that their
organizations are weakening the ties ,oi
citizenship among thousands OF people, In
that they have no othe" standard OF com.
nnnity obligations than that these organiza.
lions inculcate, that hey are destroying re-
spects for law and authority among the work.
ing classes; that they are educating the labor.
ing classes against the employing Glasses,
thus creating antagonisms between those
whose mutually Iof interests should be fos-
tered and encouraged by every friend Of good
Government; that they are destroying the
Fight of individual contract between en-
Moves and employers and forcing upon en-
movers men at arbitrary wages, and that they
are bringing pubic Iepfoacn upon o., Tue iuai, ac
of these tribunals and often open denance OF
their DEGREES, thus seeking TO break down
tne only safeguards OF Tree people. Inc
remedy for the evil lies. he SAID, principally
in a correct public sentiment touching the re.
Iations that should exist between labor and
capital. =. ,.,o, tho.
would make 1T justifetle homicide for any
killing that occurred - defense OF any lawful
occupation, the theors OF our government Do.
ing that any one has right TO earn an honest
living in this country, and any endeavor 10
deprive one of that right should be placed IN
the same legal status with deprivation OF lie
and property"
made a felony buth by national and state
legislation, and he suggested the formation OF
state and national boards Of arbitration,
ters of differences between labor and capital
and whose DEGREES should be binding on the
parties effected.
MIR. Thompson expressed the opinion that
pubIIc sentiment in the south would justify
the shooting Of union men who interfered