Denver labor bulletin., 1917-08-11
By LAURENCE TODD
~p.cin Washington Correspondent The
Denver Labor Bullrtin.l

Denver Labor Bullrtin.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., August e.
In view of the fact that a Washing
ton special dispatch" to the New York
Times, dated August l, gave lurid
picture of anticipated federal action,
based upon the usual mass of evi-
dence," to stamp out strikes in the
West on suspicion of German money
and a. w. w. activity" it is but fair
to say that the story is bunk The
department of justice, thru Assistant
Attorney General Fits, denies that
there is any evidence of either trea-
sonable or seditious acting hanging
over the heads of |. w. W. agitators
or strike leaders or anyone else. he
states that when federal laws are vio-
lated there will be immediate arrests !;
there will be no period of waiting,
during which newspapers may frighten
their readers with tales of "outrages
in unspecified localities and at inspect
fled dates.
At the department of labor the only
news of the whole case is that no evi-
dence of German plots or of crimes
by the |. w. w. or strikers led by
them have been reported to that de-
partment. On the other hand, Secre-
tary Wilson has called upon the gov
ernor of New Mexico to furnish pro-
lection to the eighty members of the
United Mine Workers of New Mexico
who were kidnapped from Gallup, n.
NJ, by corporation-incited local die
tator Samuel Gompers has presented
to President Wilson, after conference
with Frank Harrington Of the interna-
tional executive board of the United
Mine Workers, vigorous protest
against the outlawry that is now being
in he
mining regions. Harrington indorses
every word of the telegram sent Pres
ident Wilson by William Green, in
ternationa secretary of their orRani-
zation, suggesting general strike of
the coal miners if the men deported
from Gallup are not protected and re-
turned there.
Frank Morrison, secretary of the A.
+. of L., has nailed the lie of the en-
ployers who started this word-of-
mouth panic. He calls on trade union
lists to stand fast for their rights, and
fight for their principles, and mot be
stampeded because profteers cry Il.
w. W. and enemies of the govern
ment every time a demand is made for
living standards"
He told crowd in New York that
these low-wage employers cannot
SNdi' anu We VIII ilot
when they outrage every right, as they
did at Bisbee, where "A so-called 10y
atty league deported over thousand
workers suspected Of favoring organi-
zation."
While the copper kings and the tim
ber barons who are "doing their bit"
in the wartime profiteering have been
yelling German plot" and 81. w. W..
the representatives of the shipowners
of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and
the Gulf, with few of the less i'm
portant shipowners from the Great
Lakes, have been in conference, in
Washington, with the representatives
of the various branches Of the Inter
national Seamen's Union of North
America, and the associations of IL
censed officers. Their conference was
called under the authority Of the sec
retaries of commerce and of labor,
who presided at the sessions.
This conference, held August / and
2, resulted in the selection of joint
committee of fifteen members-six
each from the owners and the en-
ployes and one each from the shipping
board, the department of commerce
and the department Of labor This
joint committee is taking up the task