New-York tribune., 1918-03-19
Will Describe
u. S Aims to
Labor Abroad
College Men, Labor Chiefs
and Sociologists Going
to Europe

1t became known yesterday that with
in the next fortnight the United States
government will send abroad deleca.
tfon OF thirty labor leaders, college pro-
fessors and sociological " !sers to ex-
plain to the people of France and Eng
land, and particularly the working
INclasses and radical elements, the posi-
tion of the United States in the war.
Professor Charles A. Beard, who re-
signed his chair at Columbia as a pro.
test in favor of academic freedom of
speech after Professors James Nc
Keen Cattell and H. w. L. Longfe,low
had been dismissed because of their
utterances has been invited to head the
college section of the delegation.
John r. Alpine, of Chicago, interna-
tional president of the Plumbers Union.
will head the labor delegation, while
George McAneny, President of the
Board of Aldermen in the early days
OF the Mitchell administration, will. if
he can spare the time, head the group
Of sociological workers.
In the College Group
Associated with Professor Beard in
the college lection will be Professor
W. H. P. Fauncc. president of Brown
University; Arthur o. Lovejoy, pro-
fessor of political science in the Uni
versity OF Chicago; DR.. Albion w.
Small. dean Of the Graduate School of
Arts and Literature Of the University
of Chicago; Professor Carlton Parker,
DR.. Arnold B. Hall and E. B. McCor-
mick, former dean of Montana State
College.
In the labor group with Mr.. Alpine
will be John Frye, of Cincinnati, inter
national president of the Mouders'
natl, international president of the Pat
tern Makers Union; John Doll, inter-
national president Of the Bottle Blow
ers' Union and president of the Ohio
Federation Of Labor; William H. John
stone, of Washington, international
president of the Machinists' Union;
Miss Melinda Scott, of the Woman,s
Trade Union League of New York, and
Miss Agnes Ncstor, Of the Woman's
Trade Union League of Chicago.
Frank Walsh Asked to Join
In the group of sociological workers
who have been asked to join the depu-
tation are Frank P. Walsh, of Kansas
commission which Investigated the
Colorado mine strike; Clarence S. Dar-
row, Chicago labor lawyer, who was
counsel for the McNamaras at their
trial for dynamiting "The Los Angeles
Tines; E. T. Meredith, of Des Moines,
Iowa, editor of "Successful Farming"
and Mrs. William Astor Chanler.
The mission, which it is understood
will be under the direction of the Bu-
George Creel is the civilian chairman,
is expected to spend six weeks in Eu-
rope. The work of the commission will
be TO combat the declarations made by
Socialist and pacfist agtators as to
conditions in the United States. There
have been many of these abroad, main
ly from the radical groups of New
York's East Side, who have misrcpre-
sented conditions much as TrotZky and
his associates have misrepresented the
United States to the Russians.
To Teach American Truths
The decision to send the deputation,
under consideration since soon after
the Russian revolution, has been has
tened by the complete collapse of tha
Russian government. AS originally
planned. it was intended to send !,
solid delegation of labor leaders, but
as a large number of labor men of the
first rank could not be spared from the
United States at time when national
and international trade unions are
about to hold their conventions and
the convention of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor is only few months
away, it was decided to include in the
party representatives of various shades
Of thought. including representatives
Of the most advanced thought in un,-
life and experts on sociolog, /
not officially identified with either
abor or college life.
1t is expected that the early depart
are of this party will block the plans /
IF the Socialists and the radicals in
he secession wing Of the labor move {
nent to pose in Europe as the mouth
,ece of organized labor and adva. .rei /
thought in America