Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-17
ASsils the Bolsheviki.

men f-,,yr, his organization at the con-
ference,
! ASsils the Bolsheviki.
! Asserting nat the holshevik and
i,sAs- RADICAL clements have been and
are trying 20 miSrspreseut American
organized labor. Mr.. Gompers said:
There are conditions of industrial
T>a.l;sss sad law altogether different in
Country, There IS something about the
asSar u.SVe-aes. in America OF which
yssa RAY 70 xsSarsi-st must be alto
s-sssss- American
'a-tAe-- sAs labor movement OF
4 Srce-7Cs Usl! nc: Re represented at any
s.er-s-s-cs ~ any country where the
-ff4-s-ss= "a :3oss % an enemy nation are
present
'Na -~a- !. sn the world suffered
rrs--e -sa- ! ssS n a,y conscience and
s,rl .ssz De psscs cf the world was
So -a.A!eSs1y AID aeeIfsSsiS broken. In
~ ! a. concerned this war has
s-es- - se fought cut until either au-
snc-acy o. democracy enthrones, and I
81 Zc- Sosas - encourage my fellow
le+7-r--el n discussion OF peace
y hs- .As-s IS 70 peace"
I NJ, Gonps-S referred TO the collapse
5 6. IRE eoishevik government and de-
cared she present chaos in Russia was
.Ae answer" 20 those intellectuals and
radicals in the United States who un-
Willingly were similarly playing the
game of Germany"
Socialism MADE in Germany.'
The pacifsts. only a degree more so
in Russia than in the United States"
declared the labor leader. '.extoll the
virtues of radicalism and the wonder
full advantages to be gained from So
cialism made in Germany. They are
trying to introduce this spirit into the
- 49, N-1,
and France. to hypnotic the people of
these countries into apathy and a po-
sition of fancied security.
They try to make US believe that
the workers of Germany are ready to
Join in peace movement" continued
Mr.. Gompers, land that we needn't pre-
! pare too much for war. But you don't
hear that there is any real attempt at
pacifism in Germany. Our pacifists may
be earnest and honest. but they are
pursuing mistaken course. To wean
the people of the allied countries from
the will to fight for the right, to talk
peace now is not doing the cause of
the United States and our allies the
right kind of service.
I'm the United States our President
has given forth this republics funda-
mental war aims. England and France
have declared their adhesion to these
war aims and the American labor move
ment of the United States stands be-
hind the President. The labor men of
France and England, likewise. have
also declared their acceptance of the
principles enunciated by the head of
this government as the only possible
basis for peace. Then wherefore this
criticism Of the American labor move
ment, that it is laggard or that it re-
fuses to oo-operate?
"vagaries of Intellectuals."
Assailing the alleged vagaries of Mr..
Y fDfa olc,B rh<
| he said, favored an international con-
| ference to include the workers from
the central powers, Mr.. Gompers said:
/ I'm not going to give up the American
| labor movement with its great achieve
ments of today to look for the CHI
merical, fantastical bolshevik promises
| of tomorrow.
why, the bolsheviki not only have
lost all the meat from the bone, but
| they have lost the bone itself They
went out to obtain the maximum for
I the masses Of labor and now they have
neither land. bread nor peace.
| We prefer to go along in our normal,
| natural way. to try to make the condi-
| tions of the American workingman and
| woman better today than yesterday,
and tomorrow than the day before. We
prefer to follow that natural method
rather than the visionary way of
| hazarding all and securing nothing"
Speech Which Drew Gompers' Fire.
| The remarks of Kellogg, which drew
| Gonpers' reply, included praise of Brit
1 ish labor war aims.
1 1--WE have had wholly inadequate in
, terpreters of the British movement"
he said. Your Northcliffes and Balfours
and Galloper-SmithS have been of the
class who in the future. no less than in
the past. will be arrayed in opposition
| to the labor program
| Moreover, the delegation of British
| labor men now in this country sent
| over by the government, however con-
! scientiously and ably they may speak
for their own organization or for the
government. were selected without
! reference to the two great labor bodies
I'VE are told by the cables that the
interallied labor conference in Febru-
| airy arranged to sind five delegates
| representing British. French. Belgian
and Italian labor and socialist bodies
| to this country, and unless their coming
is blocked they will be able to sneak
for themselves on the international pro-
4 gram initiated by the British labor
movement"