The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-11
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STRIKES IN u. S. J
MIGHT CAUSE J
WAR DISASTER
President Urges Renewed Sup.
port of War Activities.
Warns Both Capital7and Labor
Against Selfishness.
| NATIONS LIFE IS At. STAKE
Message to Labor Convention
Full of War Spirit.
Says All Must Endure Great
Hardships.
Warns Both Capitalland Labor
Against Selfishness.
NATIONS LIFE IS At. STAKE
Message to Labor Convention
Full of War Spirit.
Says All Must Endure Great
Hardships.

Washington, sJune 11.-Continued
hearty support OF war efforts was
urged upon American labor today in a
sent by President Wilson to
the convention of the American Fed.
Grafton OF Labor and the American
Alliance for Labor and Democracy
now in session at st. Paul.
No controversy between capital and
labor should be permitted to inter-
fere with prosecution of tho war, the
tality set up by the government has
been employed to settle It. To Mr..
Gompers. the president teiegraphed:
PLEASE convey to the thirty-eighth
annual convention OF the American
Federation of Labor my congratula-
lions upon the patriotic support which
the members of your organization have
given to the program of the nation in
the past year, not only in the trenches
and on the battlefield, where so many
of our younger men are now IN UNI
form but equally in the factories and
the shipyards and workshops of the
country where the army Is supported
and supplied by the loyal industry OF
your skilled craftsmen.
I'VE are facing the hardships OF the
crucial months of the struggle. The
nation can face them confidently. as
sured now that the intrigues of the
enemy can never divide our unity by
means of those industrial quarrels ana
class dissensions which he had tried SO
diligently to foment. In these days OF
trial and self sacrifice. the American
workingmen is bearing his share OF
the national burden nobly. In the new
world of peace and freedom which
America IL fighting to establish his
place will be as honored and his SER
vice as gratefully esteemed"
The president'A telegram to Mr..
Maisel said: THE American Alliance
for Labor and Democracy has my ear
nest hope for a successful convention
that will give added strength to future
activities. Called into being to COM
bat ignorance and MISUNDERSTANDING.
skillfully played upon by disloyal In
fluences, your organization has done
a great and necessary work. 1t has
aided materially in promoting the
unity that proceeds from exact un-
dHstanding and is today valid and
important part OF the great machinery
that co-ordinates the energies OF
America fnsthe prosecution of just
and righteous war.
THE war can be lost in America as
well as on the fields of France and
ill-considered or unjustified interrupt
tons of the essential labor OF the
country may make 1t impossible to
win II. No controversy between cap
ital and labor should be suffered to in
terrupt 1t until every fundamentally
set UP by the government for its ami
cable settlement has been employed
and its INTERPRETATION needed to the
| utmost; and the government has set
up instrumentalities wholly fair and
adequate. And this duty to avoid such
| Interruptions OF industry wherever
they can be avoided without the ac-
tual sacrifice of essential rights rests
upon the employer as imperatively as
upon the workman. No man can af-
| ford to do injustice at any time but at
this time Justice is of the essence of
sort of advantage that at other times
| would be justified may now teopardize
the very life of the nation"