Republican farmer., 1918-06-14
RENEWED LABOR EFFORTS
 URGED BY PRES. WILSON
Country's Head Telegraphs to American Federation of
 Labor Today. FULL SUPPORT OF WAR PROGRAM ASKED War Can Be Lost in This Country As Well As on
 Fields of France.

Washington, June 11-Pres- ident Wilson telegrapheG to- day to the American Federation of Labor and the American AL liance for Labor and Democ- racy, in convention in St. Paul, urging renewed efforts of la. bor in support of the war pro. gram.
 ''The war can be lost in America as well as on the fields of France and ill-consid. cred or unjustified interrup- tons of the essential labor of the country may make it im- possible to win it,'' said the presidents telegram to Robert Malsel of the American Ali ance for Labor and Democracy.
 No controversy between capital and labor should be permitted to interfere with prosecution of the war, the pres ldent said, until every instrumental lty set up by the government has been employed to settle it. To MT. Gompers he telegraphed:
 | Please convey to the 38th annual convention of the American Fedora ton of Labor my congratulations on the patriotic support which the mem- oers of your organization have given to the war program of the nation in the past year, not only in the trenches and on the battle field, where so many Of our younger men are now in uni form, but equally in the factories and ship yards and workshops of the country, where the army is supported and supplied by the loyal industry of your skilled craftsmen.
 We are facing the hardships of the crucial months of the struggle. The nation can face them confidently, as- sured now that no intrigues of the Eenemy can ever divide our unity by means of those industrial quarrels and class dissensions which he has tried so diligently to foment. In these days of trial and self-sacrifice the American worhngman is bearing his share of the national burden mo- by. In the new world of peace and freedom, which America is fighting to establish, his place will be as honored and his service as gratefully es- teemed."
 The Presidents telegram to MT Maisel said:
 "The American Alliance for Labo1 ! hoc for a successful convention that vii give added strength to future activi ties. Called into being to comba ignorance and misunderstanding skill fully played upon by disloyal inf1u
 ences, your organization has done great and necessary work. It ha
 aided materially in promoting tn, unity that proceeds from exact un 1 derstanding and is today valid ant important part of the great machiner, that co-ordinates the energies O
 America in the prosecution of a jus
 and righteous war.
 'FThe war can. be lost in Americ, as well as on the fields of Franc terruptions of the essential labor O l LHc COOIlLEy ItIdy IIldh0 IL lLnpOSSlDl
 to win it. No controversy betweel capital and labor should be sufferet
 to interrupt it until every instrumen
 tality set up by the government fo its amicable settlement has been em !, ployed and it's intermedia ton heede to the utmost; and the governmen
 has set up instrumentalities who'll
 fair and adequate. And this dut
 to avoid such interruptions of indus
 try wherever they can be avoide
 without the actual sacrifice of essen tial rights rests upon the employe
 as imperatively as upon the work
 man. No man can afford to d !. justice at any time but at this tim z justice is of the essence of nationa
 defense and contests for any sort o a advantage that at other times wouI be justified may not jeopardize tn - very life of the nation"