New-York tribune., 1918-01-27
What the Labor Papers
Are Saying

CAMUEL GOMPERs, president Of the
~ American Federation Of Labor. in hi;
greetings to organized labor, published ir
The Youngstown Labor Record" ask
the representatives of organized labor II
90 everything within their power to max
1t plain to the rank and file of citizen
ship of this country what is involved il
the war, "as we'll as the obligation tina
devolves upon all citizens"
"In addition to the fundamental nrr
ciples at ISSUE" he says, labor has a.
additional interest in the war.
This war is in the last ANALYSIS q peo
pies war. The final outcome will be DE-
termined in the factories, the mills an
the shops, the mines, the farms. the indus
tries and the transportation agencies Of
the various countries"
Discussing the action OF Fuel Admins
traitor Garfield, in an editorial. "Tusl
President Wilson and Win the War; 9Th
Denver Labor Bulletin" writes:
Labor people have no quarrel with FH
Administrator Garfield over his drastic orde
closing down industries for a period of au
days in order that chaotic conditions in thl
transportation service of the nation may hl
uhscramoied. This is situation inheris
from years Of mismanagement of the rail
roads by private corporations who sought a
make dividends on billions of watered stocl
without concern for the nations welfare oil
other industries of the country
DR.. Garfield has had the good sense II
call in the surgeon for a major operatoI
before it became necessary to call in the ur|
dertaker."
The Kansas City Labor Herald" state
that at convention of Sioux City trad|
unionlsts held in that city recently it wal
decided to place labor ticket IN the fell
Tor the coming municipal election and thI
Rev. Wallace M. Short was unan;mousl.
nominated as candidate for Mayor.
The Phoenix Arizona Labor Journal
commenting on the conscription of labo
declares that if
The railroads are TO be onerated bv III:
government and the stockholders are to r.;
ceVe the average dividends of the last Gnnt|
years, regardless of the expense entaiei hI
sueh operation, 1t is only far that the laba:
ei WHO Will be conScrlpted into the goyerrl
'neht service should receive the average rail
Oh wages during a corresponding period Jus
tlce ana equity can dictate no other course
Let US turn from the daily contempsI
ton of the horrors in Eurone and tbI
problems in our own lam
te take another glimpse at Mexican all
1alrs, suggests "Thc Cleveland Citizen
labor paper, which goes on to profess
information covering the fact that EmilI
ano Zapata is the great liberator of thl
M MeXlcan workingman, observing:
According to General Zogg. the Zapsps
control in Mexico now comprises about 90.0Gs
square miles of land in the states of MoreIo'H
Jalisco, Chiapas, Tabasco and Quintana Zoo
an area about as large as that covered bv th'9
states Of Ohio and New York The popuis'
hon is between 3,0O0 900 and 1000, 1000 nearlyE
Eli formerly poems, but now the freest peeA
pie on earth.
During the last two or three years con'
piete cooperative system has been devs'i
'ped, which, when it becomes better knows
VIII, in our opinion, prove one of the wora
1ers of the universe. Since 1910 Zapata hal
been struggling to acquire possession of tnsEa
and that was held by wealthy owners, ansf
naturally, his methods aroused the bitter or
position of the propertied class in Mexico "A
we'll as other countries and cs~Sed for hi9EE
the title of ono who ulholds tbs moral COY
af capitalism"