Norwich bulletin., 1917-11-13
President Appeals
 to Union Labor
IN FoRcEFUL ADDRESS BEFORE
 A.. oF'L.
TALKS WAR AND LABOR
Asserted That While We Are Fight ing for Freedom We Must See Among Other Things That Labor is Free-Praised Samuel Gompers.

Buffalo IN. Y,. Nov. 12.-President Wilson, in a forcefuF address here to- day before the American Federation of Labor. appealing to the wOrkingmen of the United States for cooperation
 emphatically clear that he opposes peace until the war against Germany has been won.
 The president declared that his heart was with "the feeling of the pacifist" but that my mind has a contempt for them"
 '1 want peace, but I know how to get it and they do not" he declared. Colonel B. M. House, head of the
 American delegation to the allied war conference, the president said he had , sent to take part in conference as to how the war was to be won, and he knows, as I know, that that is the way to get peace if you want it for more than few minutes"
 The 450 delegates to the convention
 and the several thousand people ad- mitted to the hall to hear the president speak, rose and applauded this declaration with a tremendous burst of cheers. Another demonstration of approval came when he said: Must Stand Together. 'We must stand together night and day, until this job is finished" The president while devoting his address to problems for the people of the United States. laid emphasis rp- on the broader phases of the world conflict in a way that seemed to in dicate that his speech was possibly. intended as a message to the people of Germany, of Austria and of Rus sia, as well as of the United States. He declared his belief that were it not for the n-Germans, the spirit of freedom would find "as fine a well come in the hearts of Germans as it'
 can find in any other heart.' Power" he said, -cannot be used with concentrated force against free peoples, if it is to be used by free people"
 Austria Seeks Peace. Speaking, probably of Austria, MT. Wilson referred to the intimations of anxiety for peace that had come from one of the central powers and declared that it meant that the peo- pie in that central power know that if the war ends as it stands, they will. in effect, themselves be vassals of Germany, notwithstapaing < &y-- - that they do not wish in their pride and proper spirit of nationality, to
 be absorbed and dominated" Of Russia ne said that he was amaz- ed that some groups in that country in the interest oe the people can live in the presence of Germany power full enough to undermine or overthrow them by intrigue or force"
 'Fatuous as. the dreamers' of Pus- sia were those persons in this coun- try he declared emphatical1y, "who suppose that the free industry and en- terprise of the world continue if the Pan-German plan is achieved and
 the German power fastened upon the
 world"
 Germany Started the War.
 The president directly asserted that
 Germany had started the war and said
 he would leave confirmation of this
 statement to the verdict of history. He
 referred to Germany's growth to a
 place in the sum- and asked why she was not satisfied when she gained that position, In answer he describ- ed the German governments methods
 of controlling the competition of it's industries and asserted that ''all the
 while there was lying behind it's
 thought, in it's dreams for the future, a political control which would ena-
 ble it in the long run to dominate the labor and industry of the world"
 MT. Wilson cited in this connection the Berlin to- -Bagdad railway, which. he said, was constructed to run the threat of force down the flank of the industrial undertakings of half a doz- man. competition came in it would not be resisted too far be- cause there was always the possibility of getting German armies into the other armies could get there"
 Summing it up, he said that Ger .nany is determined that the political power of the world shall belong to ambitions ''been based upon so exact and precise and scientific plan of dom ination."
 Approval of Gompers.
 The president voiced in terms of euIogy his approval of the conduct of Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and :he spirit of cooperation he had mani fested in his relations with the ad- mfnistration- "a1ongside of a mind that knows how to pull in harness. The horses that kick over the traces will have to be put in a corral" The presidents ref applauded.
 While we are fighting for free dom," MT. Wilson said after these ref erences, i've must see among other must see to it that the instrumentali- ties by which the conditions of la bor are improved: are not blocked and checked Nobody has until all the methods of conciliation and settlement have been exhausted"
 Mob Spirit Denounced.
 The president took occasion also to | denounce the mob spirit, which, he l said, 'is displaying itself here and | that eff our men have not self con trol they are not capable of that great | thing which we call democratic gov | ernment."
 A pledge of loyalty to the govern | ment was contained in the annual re- port of the executive council of the | federation which was submitted to the | convention today, This report, ac- cording to the usual procedure, was | referred to committees nancy by MT. | Gonpers and it's several sections will | be taken up by the convention as | soon as reported back.
 Miners Not to Oppose Gompers.
 At the afternoon session Secretary | Morrison read a telegram from Frank | J. Hayes, president of the United |