New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

movement and equally displeasing to
the majority supporting the war. The
meeting had been billed in the radical
press as forecasting an attack upon Mr..
Gompers by Mr.. Kellogg. In tlrfs lat
ter feature it was disappointing 1t
was, however, not lacking in attacks,
Mr.. Gompers at times bitterly assail-
ing the position taken by "the intel
iectuals' and challenging their hon
esty OF statement and purpose, as we'll
as the soundness of their views
William English Wallng went even
further, accusing Mr.. Kellogg of mis-
representing facts and coloring his re-
ports of what had happened and is
happening in England.
To these Mr.. Kellogg. who spoke
first, made brief rejoinder to the
effect that Mr.. Gompers is a labor
man, Mr.. Walling a radical, and it
was plain that both had Joined hands
against the moderates.
Gompers Attacks Pacifists
At the afternoon meeting Mr.
Gompers again attacked the pacifsts,
and William A. Appleton and Joshua
Butterworth. whom Kellogg had said
did not represent British labor senti-
ment, told of labor and war conditions
in England
DR.. Talcott Williams, of the Pulitzer
School of journalism: Crawford
Vaughan, ex-Premier of South Aus
tralia, and Henry Noyes, large labor
employer of New South Wales, also
spoke
MT Kellogg began his address by say
ing that the situation in Russia had
overshadowed the British movement
and been confused with it.
"More than that" he continued, 1--WE
have had totally inadequate interpre-
ters of the British movement. Your
Northclifes and Balfours and Galloper
the future, no less than in the past,
will be arrayed in opposition to the
labor programme. Moreover, the dele
cation of British labor men now in
this country sent over by the govern
ment, however conscientiously and
ably they may speak for their own
organizations or for the government,
were selected without reference to the
two great labor bodies which are work
ing shoulder to shoulder in the matter
of war aims.
inter-Allied labor conference in Feb
ruary arranged to send five delegates,
representing British, French, Belgian
and Italian labor and Socialist bodies
to this country. And unless their com
ing is blocked. they will be able to
speak for themselves on the interna-
tional programme initiated by the Brit
ish labor movement"
Gompers Introduced as Patriot
introduced as zone than whom no
man has shown wider patriotism"
Mr.. Gompers began by saying that in
the Interpretation of affairs the wish
is often father to the thought, citing
by Mr.. Kellogg "to the
or disintegration of the
trades unions of Great Britain by di-
rection or indirection" as an example
Both directly and by indrection,"
said he, there was the slur upon not
only the American labor movement,
but also upon the four labor men who
came to this country and are now here.
And it is all of a kind. What you
see in The Survey may be found with
almost exactitude the thought and
the language of 'The New Republic
81 mention this as one of the in
stances in which the efforts have been
made to misinterpret the labor move
ment of America in every activity in
which it may be engaged, and particu-
larly is this SO and with greater vehe-
am almost inclined to say
maliciousness-by the faddists who
pretend to sympathize with the labor
more hostile in their pres
of lahor's attitude than the
worst enemy of labor.
"There is one thing upon which all
may rest assured, that this labor move
ment of America is going to be an
American labor movement, and a move