The labor standard., 1918-05-01
C ARROGANCE OF
 LABOR HOLDING
 UP WAR WORK
Leland, Liberty Motor Man, Scores Congress, President Wilson, American Federation of Labor, and Working People Generally at Meeting of the Manufacturers

HARTFORD Periodically, tn, union of manufacturers and employ CTS meet at the Hartford Club, ant wine, dine and trot out an individua who severely criticises the workers more especially the organized work CTS. Usually the association (union) calls on Jim" Emory or Walt Drew, two walking delegates of the National Manufacturers Association to do the stunt. This time they staged Henry M. Leland of the Lincoln Motor Company of Detroit, which concern is building, or experimenting with the Liberty motor.
 Judging from the remarks of Mir. Leland, as published in the daily press, they sound like the vaporings of an intoxicated man. He took a whack at Congress, the President of the United States, the American Federation of Labor, and working men generally.
 .tFiddling Like a Lot of Damned
 Fools"
 According to the daily. press MT. Leland raved as follows:
 stWe need ships, ships, and more ships. And we haven't got ships. Are we getting lem? No! We're fiddling, and fuddling like lot of damned fools with the American Federation of Labor, and still we think we're trying to win this war! We're tolerating treason when we're bleeding to death for want of ships. How long are we going to stand it !"
 (See article 'sUnion Men Are Best Ship Builders" in another column.)
 Congress Low and COntemptible"
 A short time ago our men went down to Washington and held up the government, announced that they were going to stop all transportation. And they got a spineless answer, and the. passage of the Adamson law Yes, our Congress was low and con- temptible enough to do such 9 thing, know that labor bunchi I've known them for ffty-fve years. And | tell you. they're a bunch of towards!
 Whacks President Wilson
 Continuing his remarks, MT Leland spoke of the discovery of cipher nnes- sages going to Germany every day before the war from wireless plant. "And when few efficient men showed them to our noble President it didn't appeal to him strongly. Finally he began to think. Some times people do wake up and think"
 "75, ,000 Tools and 2,6O0 Workmen
 Required to Build Motors
 s'Mr Leland outlined the history of the development of the Liberty motor manufactured by the Lincoln Motor Company of Detroit, which he organized. Pro-G German plots de signed to blow up the entire plant, to breed discontent and discord among his employees, have been discovered. The evolution of this motor has re-. quired the design of 75,00O tools. The plant in Detroit employs 2,600 men. He has attained peculiar success in the recent employment of women, he said, and described method of in struction which he has adopted"
 ''TOolmakers Trundling Trucks
 "Our greatest need at present is for competent mechanics" he said. By mechanic do not mean tool maker. This toolmaker is man who learns to trundle truck between two factories, calls himself toolmaker and demands 72 cents an hour for the 
 Resolutions of Protest
 During the afternoon meeting of manufacturers of the state, at the club, passed resolutions. protesting to the United States senate against the so-called anti-efficiency rider to the naval appropriation bill which passed the house on April 20 and which is to come up in the senate soon. The rider prohibits the use of any of the so-called efficiency methods i'll vogue and also bars manufactur- CTS filling contracts under the appro- priation from offering premiums and bonuses to their employees.
 (The purpose of this proposed law, so objectionable to some manufactur- CTS, is to prevent the over-working of men and women so that they will be fit for the scrap heap at an early age in ife).
 The date of the next harangue under the auspices of the manufactur- CTS association at the Hartford Club has not been announced.
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