New Britain herald., 1918-06-11

Washington, June 11.-Presdent Wilson today telegraphed to the American Federation of Labor and the American Alliance for Labor and De- mocracy in convention at St. Paul, urging renewed efforts of labor in sup port of the war program.
 The war can be lost .in America as Well as on the fields of France, and ill-considered or unjustified interrup- tions of the essential labor. of the country may make it impossible to win it, said the presidents telegram to Robert Masel, of the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy.
 No controversy between capital and labor should be permitted to interfere with the prosecution of the war; the president said, "until every instru- mentality set up by the government has been employed to settle it.
 To MT. Gompers he telegra phed:
 "Please convey to the 3Sth annual convention of the American Federa- ton of Labor my congratulations on the patriotic support which the mem- bers of your organization have given to the war program of the nation in the past year, not only in the trenches and on the battlefield where so many of your younger men now are in uni - form, but equally in the factories and Bhipyards and workshops of the coun- try where the army is supported and supplied by the local industry of your skilled craftsmen.
 "We arc facing the hardships of the crucial months of the struggle. The nation can face them confidently, assured now that no intrigues of the enemy can ever divide our unity by means of those industrial uuarrels and class dissensions which he has . tried so diligently to fOment. In these days of trial and self-sacriice the American worl1ingman is bearing his share of the national burden nobly. Tn the new world of peace and freedom, which America is fighting to establish, his place will be as honored and his service as gratefully esteemed"
 The presidents telegram to MT. Naisel said:
 "The American Alliance for Labor and Democracy has my earnest hope for q successful convention that will give added strength to future activi- ties Called into being to combat ignorance and misunderstanding, skiIfully played upon by disloyal in fuences, your organization has done a great and necessary work. It has aided materially in promoting the unity that proceeds from exact un derstanding and is today valid and important part of the great ma- chinerv that co-ordinates the energies of America in the prosecution of a just and righteous war.
 "The war can be lost in America as well as on the fields of France, and ul-considered or unjustified interrup- tions of the essential labor of the country may make it impossible tc win it. No controversy between capi- tai and labor should be suffered to in , terrupt it until every instrumentalitJ set up by the government for its pmicable settlement has been en ployed and it's intermediates needed to the utmost: and the government has get up instrum entalities wholly fajl md adeuuate. And this duty to avOiC such interruptions of industry Wher- ever they can be avoided without the ectual sacrifice of essential rights rests unon the employer as imperatively as upon the workman. No man can af- ford to do injustice at any time. bu at this time justice is the essence o1 national defense and contests for any sort of advantage that other times fa fTor+in11ad nn Ninth Paueo