The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-01-02
Gpmpers TrampIed is' cn American Flag
Photographs Show Federation
 Leader InSuIted National Emblem While Speaking
Lib IT IN OAKLAND, GAL.
President of San Francisco Building Trades Council Also Photographer While stanCing on the Flag.

=s W Washington. D. C.. Jan. 2-The War Depaftment has come into possession of evidence of the most fragrant out. sr8ge on the part of labor leaders on f1e Pacific Coast in defiance of the Gios.efnment and the army and Involv- ing direct insult to the American flag.
 The most direct evidence appears in Photographs, received by Major Gen. Wood, Chief of Staff of the Army, and by Major General AinswOrth. Adjutant General of the Army These photo t94a phs show Samuel Gompers, Pres -ifferit- afz the American Federation of Labor. estandinge on the, American flag sIt a meeting Of Ia boring men which ,hef was Addressing. Another photo- graph Is that of John A Kelly. Pres- ident sof< the Building Trades Council ef San Francisco. also standing on the Tag and making a speech at a labor meeting. This occurrence was at Oak land according to the official report
 Recruiting officers have for several months reported from time to time various. attempts to show an offen- siye, a ttitude .ren the part of laboring eminent One of the officers, report ing to Gen. Wood said. that several times the posters in front of his re- eruiting office had been torn down, and those displayed in various parts of the city. had also been destroyed The recruitfng officer at Los Angeles the time that the McN amaras were in iaHs there. and the labor agitators were most active in denouncing the CfoveEHruept rand.y the tefforts~, to run 7nExp4the dEnamiters. at the top of the aqor erganiza tiens.
 Attributed to Leaders.
 s The officers at San Francisco and Los Angeles say in their reports to the war Department that they do not regard the insults that have been put IpOF4 the army as being ordered by the labor organizations. They state that there has been on the Pacific coast turing the past year a larger number |, than usual of SociaIistic and anarchis- tic agitators, who seem to bes the source from which the outrages on the Flag and the insults to army men arnanate The army officers in charge at various points on the coast, know ing the possibility of a SociaIlSt1c out break have for months cautioned their recruiting sergeants to exercise great .are in their work and to see to 1t hat their offices were protected from any outbreak
 The reports of Capt. Elliott in charge If the Los Angeles recruiting station, indicate that the attacks on the of fees there came from the men. who had been on the border during the Madrista revolution, and failed in their attempt to form a Socialist State across the International boundary and had struggled back up through Cali fornia. Many of them stopped in Los Angeles. where they manifested their scorn of law and order, and their con tempt for the United States Govern r1ent by petty acts of lawlessness against the recruiting office.
 The ease of Gsompers and Kelly. standing pn the flag at Oakland, at I meeting in September, where both addressed laboring men and denouuc- d the Government and the courts. vas so aggravated that the Army and