The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-06-11
WILSON WARNS
AMERICAN LABOR
URGES RENEWED EFFORT IN
SUPPORT OF NATIONS
WAR PROGRAM.
WANTS NO 0|NTERRUPT|ON
President Tells Federation Dele
gates That the War Can be Lost
in America as Well as on the Bat
tlefields in France.

w dSHlHStOn, June IL ieSiue''
Wilson today telegraphed to the
American Federation OF Labor and
the American Alliance ior Labor
and Democracy, in convention at
St. Paul, Mimi, urging renewed Ell
forts of labor in support OF the war
program.
The war can be lost in America
as we'll as on the fields OF France,
and ill-considered or unj justified in
terruptions of the essential labor OF
the country may make it impossible
to win it," said the presidents tele-
gram to Robert Maisel, OF the
American Alliance for Labor and
Democracy.
No controversy between capital
and labor should be permitted to
interfere with prosecution OF the
war, the president said, until every
instrumentality set up by the gov
ernment has been employed to set
tie it.
Message to Gompers.
To Mr.. Gompers, the president
telegraphed:
Please convey to the Thirty
eighth annual convention OF the
American Federation of Labor my
congratulations upon the patriotic
support which the members OF your
organization have given to the pro-
gram of the nation in the past year,
not only in the trenches and on
the battle field, where SO many OF
our young men are now in uniform,
but equally in the factories and the
shipyards aud workshops OF the
country where the army is support
ed and supplied by the loyal indus
try of your skilled craftsmen.
I'VE are facing the hardships OF
the crucial months OF the Strug-
gle. The nation can face them con-
fidently, assured now that the in
trigues OF the enemy can never drive
our unity by means OF those IN
dustrial quarrels and class dissen-
sions which he had tried SO dill
gently to foment. In these days OF
trial and self-sacrifice, the Amerl-
can workingman is bearing his
share of the national burden nobly.
In the new world of peace and
freedom which America is fighting
to establish his place will be as
honored and his service as CRATE
fully esteemed
Telegram to Maisel.
The presidents telegram to Mr..
Maisel of the American Alliance for
Labor and Democracy, said:
The American Alliance for La
Dor and Democracy has my earnest
hope for a successful convention,
that ii will give added strength to
future activities. Called into being
to combat ignorance and misunder-
standing, skiliully played upon By
disloyal influences, your organiza-
tion has done great and neces-
sary work. It has aided materially
in promoting the unity that pro-
ceeds from exact understanding
and is today ! vital and important
part OF the great machinery that CO.
ordinates the energies OF America
in the prosecution OF just and
righteous war.
The war can be lost in Amer
lea, as well as on the field OF
France; and ill-considered or un-
justified Interruptions of the essen
tial labor of the country may make
it impossible to win it.
Wants No Controversy.
mo controversy between capital
and labor should be suffered to in
terrupt it until every instrumental
ity. set up by the government for
its amicable settlement has been
employed and its INTERPRETATION
needed TO the utmost; and the gov
eminent has set up instrumentali-
ties wholly fair and adequate.
And this duty to avoid such in
'terruptions OF industry wherever
they can be avoided without the ac-
tual sacrifice of essential rights
rests upon the employer as imper-
atively as upon the workman. No
man can afford to do injustice at