The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-05
WOMAN ATTEMPTS ID HECKLE WILSON First Step in Campaign by
 the Suffragettes WILSON UNDISTURBED Dedicates Labor Temple
 With Plea for Calmness SILENT ON MEXICO
WILSON UNDISTURBED
SILENT ON MEXICO
Does Not Refer to Any Foreign Coun- try by Name-Declaration That Labor Is Not Commodity Causes
 Enthusiasm Among Hearers

Washington, July 4.-President Wilson a common understanding labor temple erected here as the new home of the American Fedora tion of Labor. He told a large audience gathered at the dedica- tory exercises that the greatest barrier to
 industrial peace had been the difficulty of sinsuring candid and dispassionate con- ference and that getting our fighting blood up' was the long way and not the short way of securing rights.
 The Presidents address was interrupted twice by woman suffragist who sought to heckle him regarding his opposition to a national suffrage amendment She was silenced by secret service men and finally taken away by the police. The Congress sional union announced tonight that the effort was but the first step in new with the advisability of passing the amendment at this session of Congress.
 NO REFERENCE TO MEXICO
 MT. Wilson's plea for calm counsel brought repeated applause from the crowd, who apparently interpreted it as having an indirect bearing on the Mexi- can crisis. The President however, did country by name.
 "The way we generally strive for rights" he said, lis by getting our fight ing blood up, and I venture to say that it is the long way and not the short. If you come at me with your fists dou- bled, I think l can promise 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 at
 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 desire to get together, we will get together
 The President scarcely had begun to speak when the first interruption came. The questioner, Miss Mabel Vernon of the woman's party, was standing only few feet from him, and when he declared that In his position he was not permitted to think of any one class of persons, she shouted:
 If you truly desire to serve all classes, why do you block the national suffrage amendment now before Congress? Four million women in this country--'' The White House secret service men made their way to Miss Vernon and quickly slenced her. She tried unsuc- cessfully to induce them to eject her from the crowd. When she again sought to interrupt the President few min utes later, however, city police led her away from the speakers stand. She was not arrested.
 WILSON IS UNDISTURBED The President apparently was undis-
 turbed by the incident. He passed upon the first question and turned to look at Miss Vernon who stood with Miss Alice Paul and Miss Maude Younger, mem bers of the Congressional union, but he 1 paid no heed to the second interruption. l Nothing that the President said aroused | such enthusiasm as his praise of that (COntinued on Page Twelve)