New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-27
Rabbi Wise Joins
Labor in Its Fight
On Pro-Germans
Free Synagogue Leader to
Address Gompers Confer
ence at Minneapolis

The Rev. DR.. Stephen S. Wise. Of the
Free Synagogue. yesterday telegraphed
the American Alliance for Labor ana
Democracy expressing his approval OF
the movement against those pro-Der-
man propagandists who would use or
gained labor for their own ends, and
accepting an invitation TO address the
conference to be held in Minneapolis,
beginning September 3.
The declaration of the rabbi of the
Free Synagogue that he Is against the
pro German pacItist movement Is
blow to the organizers of that group
who have not hesitated to use his
name as that of one Of their support
ers.
DR.. Wise is we'll known as a pactst.
but his friends have not hesitated TO
say, in his absence from the city, that
he was opposed to the kind OF peace
that Germany would force upon the
world and that he resented the use or
his name to give that veneer of re-
spectability so desirable in all rascal
ity."
Mrs. Gill Joins Opponents
Another prominent paclfst OF high
rank in the socialist movement TO JON
i'm fighting the German propagandl lists
is Mrs. Daisy Saniel Gill. Of Douglas
ton. Herself the daughter Of vet
eran of the Paris Commune and well
known writer on socialist topics, she
Joins in denouncing those who have
lined the party up on the side OF the
Kaiser.
Minnesota will give the American
Alliance for Labor and Democracy a
loyal American welcome when the CON
ference opens there on September 81
said G.. W. Lawson, secretary OF the
Minnesota State Federation OF Labor,
at the Hotel Continental last night.
at will be more than q Minneapolis
welcome; it will be a state welcome.
And you might say. also. that it will
be a Twin City demonstration, for ST.
Paul will do its full share toward
showing the delegates and the country
al large that Minnesota is all right.
"Our laboring people are all right
and they are not pro-German, but they
do need. just as you need here in the
East, TO be told the exact situation.
They have been lied to and deceived
by pro- German agitators, just as labor
here has been deceived. They have
been told that Gompers has sold out
the laborinG man.
"The State Federation two months
ago placed itself squsrely on record in
the matter Of the war by adopting the
strongest kind Of resolutions. After
they were adopted the socialist wing
tried TO force reconsideration. They
failed. and then they bolted. There
were thirty-seven who bolted, thirty.
seven out of $40. and those that re-
NAMED were glad they went. That
convention was no place for anybody
but Americans; the fifty-hfty kind was
not wanted.
Recalls Editors Arrest
"rhc German element there has been
more rabid than here in the East.
Within a fortnight an editor Of the
'Voiks-Zeitung' was locked up by or
der of the President, to stay locked
up until the end of the war. 7 be-
leve his final offence was a wicked
personal attack on General Pershing.
mayor Van Lear, who is going to
welcome the propsgsndists, is a So
cialist, although he was not elected as
such. He is now as popular in Mime
apolis as Mayor Thompson is in Chi
cago. and for much the same reason.
Only TO be fair to Mayor Thompson,
he has never gone as far as Van Lear