Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-11-16
N0 BOLSHlYIKI
 FOR AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR

C9UO a@ed tuoIJ ponuuuoll
 that you have learned from Mover, to look and be careful, and when you find a man representing the l. w. w. to know he is there not to organize you to better your conditions, but he is doing there, what he is trying to do in the United States, to organize you to destroy you.''
 The resolution which brought out the debate was amended to provide that the executive council of the American Federation should investi- gate any report of men improperly imprisoned and take what action the members saw fit The resolution as apodted reads: That an agreement be reached as to the best way for find ing honorable means to exert influ ence. 50 that justice and protection will be imparted to those workingmen who for various reasons are derived of their liberty in the jails of the United States"
 President Gompers started the de- bate by demanding the exact mean- ing of the resolution. He was answer ed by Perez Ruiz, delegate from Tor reOn, who conceded that the influence of the industrial workers of the world had made itself widely felt in Mexico and that the resolution had been in troduced as the opening wedge to obtain the release of the 1. w. w. pri- soners. now confined ill the Leaven- worth prison. The resolution was one of series upon the adoption which hinged the approval of the Mexican delegation to the proposed all-Amer- ican federated.
 The argument presented by various Mexican speakers included the con tention that the |. W. w. and the American Federation were rival or ganizations, animated by jealously, tha tthe American Union had planned to put in jail all wCrkingmen who did not belong to it and finally ended with the plea that the Federation should forgive the convicted men their past offense and obtain their release. President Gompers related to the dele gates the part organized labor had placed in aiding the people of Mexico | ill years past including it's protests which helped induce the American government to refuse to return MeNl- can political refugees who had fled tc the United States at the time of the revolution against President Diaz.
 "The American Labor movemen supported Madero,' MT. Gompers said "The American Labor movement op posed the assassin Huerta, the Amer ican Labor movement did everything in it's power to prevent confllct pc tween the United States and MeXlcO whether in Russia or in Ireland or Il Mexico or in any country, where th people are endeavoring 10 find free dom and justice, the American Fed eration of Labor will put forth lt best efforts to help secure them:
 "Why not release the l. W. w. pri soners and let them work out thel own salvation according to thel rights, you ask?
 "The I. w. w. in the United State is just exactly what the Bolshevlki | in Russia, and we have seen wha they have done to the working peopi' in Russia, where the people nave h' security, no peace, no land and n' bread
 "rhe American Federation of LaDor is going to continue to work for th' hest interests in the United states in Russia and in the far east anu l. ~ II going to help you if you will let IL. w cant. do anything to help you Ill you ,. country if you don't want us
 i Louis N. Morones, vice chairman 2 the conference and general secrelar: of the Confederation Regional yoreI; AIexicana, brought the disc9ssloa \ \ an end.