The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-05
PRESIDENT URGES
 THAT LABOR SEEK |CALMER COUNSEL
Cheered In Address at Capital. Suffragist Interrupts
 Speech. [

tO lO,VVO peTSOnS WHO aSSemDleQ IC dedicate the new American Fedora ton of Labor building yesterday President Wilson, the guest of honor paid a high, tribute to the working man and deplored the fact that some judges of the country, through the Clayton Antitrust Act. had to be taught the fundamental principle that labor is not commodity.
 Samuel Gompers, Npresident of the Federation, aroused intense enthusi- asm when he pledged organized labor to support the President in his efforts to keep this country out of war. x
 But if war should be forced upon us," said he, "I can, pledge organized labor to give a good accounting o1 itself"
 The Presidents plea for calm -counsel brought repeated applause from his hearers, who apparently in- terpreted it as having an Aindirecl bearing on the Mexican crisis" The President; however. did not refer to Mexico or any other foreign country by name.
 Calm Counsel Wins.
 'The way we generally strive for rights he said, lis by getting ou1 fighting blood up;f and venture te say that it is the long way and not the short. If you come at me with your fists 4oubled think can prom ise you that mine will double as fast as yours
 "But if you come at me and say Let us sit down and take counsel together and, if we differ with one another, understand why it is. that we differ, just what the points al issue are,' we presently will find that we are not so far apart after all, that the points in which we differ are few and the points on which we agree are many. and that if we only have the patience and the candor and the de. sire to get together we will get to- gether." .rT I
 Nothing that the President said aroused such enthusiasm as his praise of that section of the Clayon Act de. claring that labor is not a commodity
 Labor Not a Commodity.
 1T. am sorry" he said, ''that ther, were any judges in the United State who had to be told that It is, so ob vious that it seems to me that tha, section of. the Clayton act were a re turn to the primer of human tliberty but if judges have to have the prime opened before them am willing t. open it." L3a
 Referring to the American flag carried by the union workers in th' parade which, he had reviewed a part of the exercises, the Presiden declared that the flag always shoult recall Americas duty in; serving. th' world, He added:
 America did not come into exist ence to make one more great natio1 in the family of nations, to show Sit strength and to. exeScise mastery America opened her doors to every body who wanted to be; free and t. have the same opportunity, that ev erybody else had to make the mos of his faculties and his opportunitie only SO long as it retains and seek to realize those ideals. No man ough to suffer injustice in America. N man ought, in America, to fail to se the deep dictate of humanity"
 Mrs. Wilson, Vice President Mar shall and several members of the Cab inet attended the exercises. Secre tary Wilson of the Labor Departmen was master of ceremonies.
 Miss Alice Paul, chairman of tn executive committee of the Congres sfonaA Union for Woman Suffrage,t tsen Miss Mabel Vernon of Nevada, one O her campaign speakers, and a membe of the, New Woman's Party. to heckl President Wilson while he spoke.5
 Miss Vernon interrupted the Presi dent twice, and then was led away by policemen. Miss Paul announced that the action of Miss Vernon wa! deliberate and had her approval ane that it is just the beginning of a cam paign of militantism. In her state ment she said in part:
 l"No stone Twill be left unturned tt demonstrate to the President ana members. of Congress the deep ant growing dissatisfaction of the womer voters with the administration treatment of the Woman Suffrage |amendment.
 As the President was discussinl the advantage of settling differences by calm discourse in preference t E, why. if you desire to serve al classes, did you use your efforts t block Woman Suffrage?" ?" Miss Yer non shouted, waving her arms. "D' you not know that 100000 women -" 7. A half dozen policemen firml, forced her back into her seat befor she went. any further. But as tn President ended his speech, Miss Yer non shouted again:
 k"Answer, MT. President; why di you block the national Suffrag Amendment?
 She was escorted from the / stan by policemen and led across tn street, where she was detained unti the meting was over. Democrat | leaders are preparing. to charge tla i the Congressional Union is an auxil iary of the Republican party, organ ized to conduct a campaign agains the Democratic administration. The will charge that Republican contribu tions to the campaign funds help | keep the organization alive.
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