The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1916-09-08
LEAGUE TO ENFORCE
PEACE ADOPTS
UNION LABEL
international Movement to Prevent
Some Wars Gives Organized
Labor Preference

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principles of the movement it con
ducts, an order requiring a carload of
paper, with the Observation-Disclosures
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-
livered by Samuel Gompers, president
Of the American Federation Of Labor,
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
terest of the working classes in the
leagues program; for, it will be re-
membered, 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 who
are killed and of those who lose their
working classes.
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 well to say that it was
organized to bring about an interna
tional alliance that will have the
to
cedes that no human agency can pre-
vent all wars, any more than 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. Parker, demo-
cratic candidate for the presidency in
1904, as vice president. There are also
three hundred honorary vice presi-
dents, state chairmen, national COM
mitteemen, including the most emf
ueIJ uleH anu NOluel Ill lle country.
It's membership includes senators,
representatives., as many governors
and former governors as there are
states in the Union, the mayors of
many cities, including New York,
Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans; the
presidents of more than two score uni
versities and colleges, including Har-
yard professors of political science
and international law, and so on.
Because it exists for a single pur-
pose the league has been able to bring
together for that single purpose men
from all political parties, of all faiths
and creeds, and of all shades of belief
from pacifism to preparedness.
This purpose is to promote a 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 dis
pute between nations; and council
of Cancellation to compose difficulties
outside the jurisdiction of the court.
1t is further proposed that the ma
tions in the league shall boycott 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 a conclusion.
1t is proposed to abolish secret
diplomacy, which has brought on so
many wars, by submitting therefor
delay and public discussion. Nations
are like men: the longer they talk, the
less likely they are to fight.
The league is strongest in America
just now, although it is active in both
belligerent and other neutral coun-
tries, and would be still more active
but for the exigencies of the war
situation.
The first annual national assem-
blage at Washington last May was at
tended by more than two thousand
delegates from every state in the
Union and representing every profess
sion and occupation. President Will
son Secretary of War Baker and Sen
ator Lodge were among the distin-
guished men who delivered addresses.
The principles of the league have
been indorsed in the political plat
forms of both the republican and the
democratic parties and by the candi-
dates of both parties, by the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States and
by a number of other prominent or
CARNATIONS.
State organizations have been
formed in avarv etata hut four ond tho