The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1916-09-02
:LEAGUE To ENFORCE
PEACE ADOPTS LABEL
International Movement to Pre-
M Wars Gives Organized
ST.. histo Preference.
UNION OF IN, ~: CO.,
PLAN OF FOu-. 5ERS
Leaders Propose to Codify and
Supplement international
Y Laws.

NEW YORK, Sept. 2.-The League
to Enforce Peace has just placed an
order for 100000 booklets setting
forth the principles Of the movement
1t conducts, an order requiring a car
load Of paper, with the Wynkoop,
Hallenbeck Crawford company. a
union shop. The contract provides
that the booklets shall bear the union
label.
An interesting feature Of the series
is reprint of the notable address de-
nvered by Samuel Gompers. president
OF the America~ Federation Of La
Dor, at the first national assemblage
OF the League to Enforce Peace at
Washington, May &C., 1916, on the in
terests Of labor in the league. The
effect of this address was to arouse to
an extraordinary degree the interest
of the working classes in the leagues
program; for, it will be remembered
that the league proposes to prevent as
many future wars as possible, and it
is also to be borne In mind that the
majority Of those wha are killed and
Of those who lose their property In
wars are drawn from the working
'classes.
international Peace Alliance.
For the benefit Of. those who are
not yet fully informed about the
League to Enforce Peace and what it
stands for it may be we'll to say that
it was organized to bring about an in
ternational alliance that will have
the power to prevent some wars. It
comedies that no human agency can
prevent all wars, any more. than a
police force, however, efficient, can
prevent all crimes.
The league does not propose to try
to stop the present war. The league
was organized in Philadelphia, June
II. 1915. with w. H. Taft, former
President of the United States as
president and Alton B. Barker, DEM
ocratic candidate for the presidency
in 1904, as vice president. There are
also 300 honorary vice presidents,
state chairman, national" committee
men, including the most eminent men
and women in the country.
Prominent Members.
It's membership includes senator's,
representatives, as many governors
and former governors as there are
States in the Union, the mayors of
many cities, including New York, Bos-
ton, Baltimore, New Orleans; the
presidents of more than two score
universities and colleges, including
Harvard, professors of political
science and international law, and
50 on.
Because it exists for q single pur-
POSE the league has been able to bring
together for that single purpose men
from all political parties Of all
shades Of belief from pacifism to pre-
paredness
This purpose is to promote league
Of nations whose combined moral,
economic and military power will
tend to preserve the peace of the
world. =,
1t is proposed to hold international
conferences to codify and supplement
international law: to establish an in
ternational~ court to try causes of
dispute between nations; and a coun.
Gil Of conciliation to compose diff
culties outside the jurisdiction Of the
court. It is further proposed that
the nations in the league shall boy
colt and use their military forces
against any member that commits an
act Of war against another member
without first submitting it's grievance
to court or council and awaiting q
conclusion.
Abolish Secret Diplomacy.
1t is proposed to abolish secret dip
Continuad m Pee