Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-16
NJ ROLSH|VIK|
 EOR AMtR|CAN FEDERATION LABOR
Charles H. Mover Warns Against Such Propaganda As Led By Haywood, Now In Prison.
 and His Gang.
Story Harks Back to Twelve
 Years Ago.
Empire Is Over.Run With 1. w. w
 and Anarchy,

1 Laredo, Tex, Nov. 15.-Perfection of
 a Pan-American Federation of Labor /, today apparently hinged on thresh- Ing out of the question of the treat ] Inent Of Mexican wOrkmen along the border to the satisfaction of the AleXlcan delegates in attendance up-
 on the conference of American, MeXi- can ond South and Central American labor representatives here. A report from the committee on resolutions on i the declaration of American labors
 peace principles had not been made
 at nOOn
 The discussion of the treatment of
 Mexican abor along tme border arose
 over a resolution submitted by the
 Mexican delegation charging that
 Mexican workmen and their families
 had been treated harshly on the Uni
 ted States side of the Rio Grande, that they had constantly been underpaid and their nationality insulted The
 resolutions committee had offered an amendment that questions of i'll treatment of Mexican workmen in the the United States should be investi- gated and handled by the executive council of the American Federation of Labor.
 Debate came over the adoption of the amended resolution. Mexican residents of the United States affiliat- ed with the American Federation were the defenders of the amendment
 The MeXicans from the United States asserted that the trouble their hod nri1 J been of their own making They had entered the unions, they said, profit ed by them through improved work ing conditions and then had refused to adhere to union rules Relief for the situation the unionized MeXicans contended would be the general estab- lishment of unions in Mexico. which would prevent Mexican laborers com into the United States as strike breakers.
 Laredo. Texas. Nov. 15.--Charles H. Mover, whose name twelve years ago was linked everywhere in the minds of the American people with William D. Haywood. convicted president of The Industrial Workers of the World, and who with Haywood and George Petit bone, were on trial for their lives in Boise Idaho today lead officials of the American Federation before Pan American Labor conferences in plead ing fervently with the people of Mexi- co and the United States to have none of Haywood, or the organization he heads The success of the Pan-Amer- ican Labor conference for while to- day seemed threatened by the MeXi- can delegation which sought by reso- lution to recommit the proposed the Pan-American Federation of Labor, the project of releasing from custody working men now confined to the jalls of the United States.
 Samuel Gompers, President, Amer ican Federation of Labor, drew out the fact that the resolution was aim ed directly to achieve the release of the industrial workers of the world, and that it had been offered as a re- suit of the I. w. w. influence in Mexico. The resolution drew the full fire from. president Gompers, and all of the executive council of the Amer ican Federation of Labor, and was warmly defended by some of the MeXl- can delegates.
 Mover, who is now president Of the Mine, Mill and smelter workers, pre- viously had taken no part in the con ference proceedings. He arose to answer to a statement by a Mexican delegate that the I. w. w. had con vinced many Mexican workmen that the the American Federation of Labor fought the Haywood organization merely because the two organizations were seeking the same end by differ ent means. Mover, who with Hay wood, had been charged with the murder of Governor Frank Steuten- berg, of Idaho, presented a dramatic figure when he arose.
 ."My name is Mover" he said Re