Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-27
Workers Have Borne Burden
of War in Part; Entitled toI
Help Mold the Future, Hell
Says,
MILITARY FORCES
MUST BE JUSTLY USED
SoIdiery Must Be Taken From
Under the Domination of
AutocraCy and Secret Dl-
pIomacy,


Washington, May 2G.-Lahor has
borne most of the burdens growing
out of wars in the past, with little to
say in regard to the declaring of wars
or their conduct. and In the peace Of
! the future labor must have an In
creasng voice, Samuel Gompcrs, pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor, declared in an address here
tonight at the first annual assemblage
of the League to Enforce Peace.
/ Mr.. Gompers outlined five princi-
pies which he declared represent not
only the International program for
which labor will work In the future,
but for which labor has been con
tending through the years" These
principles, he said, are as follows:
Just Use of Force.
Il. II must be a program under
which the military forces of the world
will be rescued from the dlctatlon OF
arbitrary autocracy and absolute Sc
crct diplomacy and dedicated to the
maintenance of higher standard Of
morals, law and Justice; a program
tiARA wa ~ NftAN = hHti u ttit uHt VI iIlil7
lsary power that it cannot be used by
the reactonary forces of privilege In
imperialistlc aggression. or dragged
like a red herring across the path OF
democratic progress.
"2. 1t must be program elastic
enough to admit of those fundamental
changes that the growing life of the
world makes iRevitable. Any Inter 4
national arrangement that does not
afford peaceful methods of securing
the results that now can be achieved
only by successful fighting Will make
little headway against war. Labor
will oppose any federation of nations
so organized that the more powerful
nations can use the machinery to
maintain the status quo against the
demands for change made In the In
terest of democracy and larger op-
portunity for the masses.
"S. 1t must be a program under
which the small nation, as well as the !
large nation, will have free hand in I
every Just and individual develop /
ment; a program that will make IL .
impossible for a few strong nations
to dictate the policies and develop .
ment of the world 1t must not deny
to samm and dependent states that
final right of revolution that some-
times is the only road to justice and
freedom
"a. 1t must he program that will
give the masses greater influence in
those decisions that phng nations into
war; that is to say a program under
which the powers of autocracy and
secret diplomacy cannot, over night,
rush n nation into war before the cit
izenship of the nation has chance
TO express itself
All Glasses Must Have Voice.
20. 1t must be program under
which the international machinery
that is created will form medium
through which all classes OF society
can voice their judgment and register
their demands. We must not deludo
ourselves into thinking that the inter-
national problem will be solved en-
Iirely by the establishment Of an in
court along traditional
lines presided over by lawyers TO pass
Judgment upon violations of estab-
Ilshed international law. The fact Is
that the real causes Of modern war
are not 30 much violations Of estab-
lshed law, as they are conflicts over
new problems and new needs that
have not yet become part of mterna- 5
ional law. So that any adequate In
ernational program must include the :
of a system of stated q
conferences in which the |
Of such democratic c
present and discuss, not under any 7
established rules of evidence but in
he spirit Of impartial examination,
hose difficulties and differences that Il
hreatcn 10 give rise to war" !
No Recommendations !
Mr.. Gompers declared that insofar i
Is the program OF the League TO En- v
orce Peace represented an effort to
meet the conditions he had outlined, {
t demanded the interest and careful n
crutny of every man who had the $
interests OF labor at heart. III is not =
or me. by word OF mouth, TO commit II
he laboring men Of America to any u
PARTICULAR program in International
ffairs
Since such court or league as G
appears to be the inev-
table goal toward which the whole r
Of law and government is II
ending. the laboring men of THE and n
very other nation will feel il their "
Iuty and privilege to lift their voice Il
n counsel at every step of the plans
nd propaganda. in order 10 make
more certain the triumph of demo- n
ratio principles and methods in +
whatever final form such an interna- y
ional institution may take" =