Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-17
LABOR MEN INDIGNANT
Fight Is Expected Between Un.
 ions and the Administration.

fIgnt IS ExpeCteu betWeen un-
 ions and the Administration.
 HOUSED BY STRAUS' ATTITUDE Gompers Says Immigration Plans oi Secretary Are Not Going to Be Car.
 ried Into Effect No Matter What Of.
 ficial May Advocate Them.
 Washington, Sept. 17.-Signs have rapidly multiplied during the last two or three days that the next few months will witness a vsry bitter con- troversy between the labor organiza- tions on one side and the federal ad- ministration and congress on the other
 That there is to be fight to a finish between the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Fed eration of Labor has been shown by the suit brought by the manufacturers against the unions to test the right to boycott and by the reply of the manu- lecturers to the charge of the fedora tion that a s5OO,0oO fund was raised for the purpose of crushing out labor.
 MT. Gompers on his return from New York raised the direct issue between his organization and the secretary of commerce and labor regarding the ex- clusion of the Japanese, which is likely to lead to protracted debate between the unions and the administration.
 Took Straus to Task.
 MT. Gompers took as a basis for his remarks statements coming from New York that the department of commerce and labor was being turned by Secre- tary Straus into kind of intelligence office for the better distribution of i'm migrants throughout the country. This statement emanated from Mir Coakley of the Lithographic Apprentices union, and he took MT. Straus to task for his statement that oriental labor could be used in this country for work that white labor would not care to do and said that this indicated that Mir. Straus was prepared through his department to distribute Japanese labor through out the country
 Mir Coakley had also said that the attitude of Secretary Straus ought to be brought to the attention of Presi- dent Roosevelt because the secretary of commerce and labor is taking the same view as that of the manufactur- CTS association.
 MT. Gompers Up In Arms.
 When Mir. Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, was shown this dispatch from New York he said:
 "This is the first intimation I have had as to the alleged intentions of Sec. retary Straus regarding the importa- tion of Asiatic labor into this country. If he is correctly quoted he is willing that the Japanese should come in with. out restraint for the purpose of doing certain kinds of work and to use gov. ernmeDt bureau for distributing these immigrants and finding them employ. ment. -'..,.. .- .l"'! h
 q am both surprised and pained to hear that this Is Mir Straus' attitude. Mir. Straus or any other official who attempts what is alleged in the news from New York will have to stand the full responsibility of his action. The immigration plans of Mir. Straus are not going to be carried into effect, no matter what government official may advocate them-Mr. Straus or any one else. I deny that the business men of the country want the gates opened in any degree for the admission of Asiatlc immigration. Such step is fraught with too much danger to the people. We are not modifying our position in the matter. nor will we modify it."
 Call For Union Convention.
 Arrangements are being made for a joint convention of the local labor lead. CTS in Washington and the officers of the international labor organizations Washington labor men say that they have received information that the manufacturers association and the Cit. izens' alliance in other large cities are their efforts on tba open shop movement. which was inaugural. ed here and which led to the strike of nineteen unions engaged in the build ing trades. The purpose, the union men say. is 10 make the national capl tai an open shop city first and then con. centrate on all other cities in the coun. try. This is said to he one of the first visible effects of the use of the half million dollar fund which has so excit. ed Mir. Gompers.