The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-15
JAP LEADER SAYS UNIONS CAN END
 MELLOW PERIL !"
Gompers Believes Suzuki Can Make History If
 Sent to Japan.

Baltimore, Nov. 15.-A Japanese ag- itator, B. Suzuki, is the most signifi-
 cant figure in the thirty-sixth annual convention of the American Fedora ! ton of Labor, which opened it's ses- | sions here yesterday.
 1 Suzuki has come to plead co-opera-
 tion between the labor movements of Occident and Orient, to remove the 1 danger of future war between the Uni-
 ted States and Japan. He wants the Federation to send President Gompers
 to Tokio, to visit the first great con-
 vention of Japanese trade unions, ear l ly next year. He believes that with the coming of the head of the two mill 1 lion organized wage-workers of this country, the workers of Nippon will 1 be awakened by tens of thousands to ! their opportunity to use industrial or ganization to improve their conditions. As result of this extension of the
 movement in Japan he looks for the establishment of friendly relations be- | tween the workers on either side of 1 the Pacific, such that war will hence forth become practically impossible. This dream, if it proves a dream, has captured the imagination of some
 
 l world of California. Old Dennis
 Kearney, hero of the San Francisco | sand lots'' of a generation ago, must turn restless in his grave as the doc Urine of yellow peril' which he preached with such success to the la-
 Dor leaders of his day goes down, dis credited by some of his stanchest fol- l lowers. Paul Scharrenberg, secre- { EoI fov, of Labor himself a Sailors Union delegate here, has been instructed by 1 the convention of his State labor body to proceed to Tokio in January, to give encouragementt to the Japanese trades
 unions. Michael Casey, leader of old 1 time waterfront strikes in the City of
 the Golden Gate, and a political pow
 CT there for many years past, has en-
 tertained Japanese labor officials. It l is these Californians, whose own Un-
 ion Labor Party administration, in the days of Mayor Schmitz, first aroused 1 the dangerous anger of the Japanese l Government, who now come to a na- tional convention with a suggestion of
 a Japanese industrial, entente.
 l Gompers Is Willing. i MT. Gompers will leave the initial ] tive to the Western delegates, after
 MT. Suzuki shall have made his speech. l It is no secret however, that MT. Com pers believes that he can make his l tory if sent on this errand He has l confidence, first of all, in Suzuki. Not only has the Japanese organizer con- verted from hostile to a friendly att I titude a great number of American la
 Dor leaders, but during the past year hN has formed federation of trade unions made up of the Japanese wage workers in the Pacific Coast States l Wages have gone up, and competition | with organized white labor has been 1 greatly modified. Suzuki has proven his devotion to trade union ideals, at 1 least
 1 In the second place, Gompers and I the CalifOrnianS draw a parallel be- | tween the American-Japanese situa- l ton and the condition obtaining be- | tween this country and Mexico. What ever the rest of the country may think | of it, the officers of the American Fed eration of Labor are convinced that their intervention at the time of the | Carl;izal affair last summer saved the United States from entering upon l war against the Mexican people. In 1 the report of the executive council special emphasis is laid upon the part enacted by it in preserving peace between the two countries Telegrams sent by President Gompers to Gen. CarranZa, asking the release of the ! American soldiers taken prisoner at 1 Carrizal, and by Gen. Carranza to MT. Gompers, announcing that the release of the prisoners was ordered, are quot ] ed in this connection. The Council then presents the text of the declara-> l tion drawn up by the joint conference l of the American and Mexican labor movements last July.