The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-03
PRESIDENT APPROVES
Of LABOR GATHERING
Wilson Denounces Pacifists
Who Ignore Grievances
Against Foe.
MUST OPPOSE THEM
| while Soldiers Are Dying
Disloyalists Can't BE
Tolerated.

washington. Sept. a.--liearty ap- |
nr,vul of the conference of the Amer
lean Alliance for Labor and Democ-
,aey to he held at Minneapolis next
Tuesday and the task il will under
take oi suppressing disloya,ty has been
given bv President Wilson in Il letter
! To Samuel Gompers, president OF inc
American Federation Of Labor ana
chairman OF the alliance.
! The letter made puplic here today
! dcnounccs those who seek 10 ignore
Americas grievance against Germany
and insist that 4 nation whose CIV
zens have been foully murdered nhuer
| their own flag, whose nclEhoofS nave
been invited to join in. making COM
quest of its territory and whose pa
| tiencc imprcssinE the claims ~ JUS
ticc and humanity have been mel WIN
the most shameful policy OF trucuieh't
and treachery does not know IT'S OWE
mind and has no COMPREHENSIVE rc"-
son for defending itself
Must Guard Against Dangers.
While our soldiers and sailors are DO
doing their manful work to hold back
reaction in its most brutal ana aS-
.rcssiya FORM, the president wrote
"we must oppose at home the organ-
lied and individual efforts of those
dangerous elements who hide dis
loyalty behind a screen Of spacious
and cvusiye phrases.
The letter follows: &
Presidents Letter.
"Ny Dear Mr.. GomperS:
II am sure that you understand m!
~ inx it.,9in
II address the Minneapolis conference o
' American Alliance for Labor an'
y Democracy is due only TO Official nc
g cessity and not IN any degree TO ';lc'
Of appreciation of the Importance .
II the occasion. The cause you and You
, fellow patriots uphold is one with IN
'e cause we are defending with arm!
~ While our soldicrsand sailors are 90
lt ing their manful work to hold bac
I; reaction in its most brutal and aSgrt
g isvc form, we must oppose at home III
8 organized and individual efforts {
&c those dangerous elements who hie
ce disloyalty behind n screen of spaciot
as and evasivc phrases.
&c II have read with real pride IL
OF names Of the men and women who ~
- to take part in the Minneapolis COZ
nd ference Not one but has n record
- devoted service to fundamental demo'
racy. not one but has fought the Ion
hard fight for equal justice. braEt,
every bitterness that the humhleSt II
might know II larger measure of IA
nh pncss.
with all my heart, | want them
feel that their devotion TO country
in no wise Il betrayal of principle al
is that in serving America today they |,
OIL serving their cause no less faithful
lay than in the past. l. myself, have h
nb, sympathy with the fears of the wor
We crS of the United States. for the tie
zen slencY of war is toward reaction "A
Tor too often military necessities Ia
ted been made an excuse for the dcstru
he ton OF laboriously erected industl
FIN and social standards. Those tea
happily. have proved to be basele
Vii With quckcncd sympathies and 4
Tor probation. our people have not OF
the held every inch of ground that |
Tor been Won by years of struggle,
have added to the gains of the Twt
tirth century along every linz Of !
man betterment. Questions of wal
and hours of labor and industrial
h !
Va which gives to the toiler Il new q
nifty and IA new sense of social /;
non economic security. ! beg you to
for that my support has not been lack
lain and that the government has not fai
ma. at any point in granting every ]
me. request advanced by YOU and v
ou- assistants in the name Of the .\mcri,
sells worker
Al. Batteline of Democracy
~" NO one who is not blind can fail
see that the battle line of democr
for America stretches today from
fields of Flanders TO every work ST
where upright men and women
wv" counting treasures of right and jus
and liberty which are being thrcate
by our enemies.
'oo" 1T has not been {. matter of 5
prise to me that the leaders in