Denver labor bulletin., 1918-01-19
OUTLINE PROGRAM FOR
LABOR'S PARTICIPATION
IN PEACE TERMS.
Heads of Federated Railroad
Shopnen to Tell McAdoo
About Wage Scales;
Board of Adjustment
Is Favored.
BY LAURENCE TODD
especial Representative The Ds,x.
BuIletinO "oF

ouActlnl
, WASHINGTON, Jan. 14-R-i-;.L
ton to talk over the war si+,,a+iar I-iliIi
the labor movement within tSa sIIiej
countries. 60 1t is possible. also tbs+
rghcn and Italian and Belgian Iabo-
VIII likewise have its views e,-rraeesI
"hen the Enghshmen arrive here s1J
20 INTO conference with the e,-ec,,tI---
council OF the American Federation ~
Incidentally the British are To for
tIlaiIy present to the executive counci1
s ETeaI bronze bas-relief, represent
ing LABOR triumphant" which their
organizations ordered made Iast Jyaa-
and which has for some rnon+bs 10,
on view in the British National GeI
iery OF Art. But principally the Wis
lIors are coming to talk of the do
hands the British labor rnoveren+
mas MADE, and the demands the Ameri-
can labor movement either has nade
or Is likely to make at its June cor
Venuon, for a share in the Official
peace congress at the end of the war
ana Tor certain definite safeguards for
democracy for the future, as insisted
upon by the working classes of the
two nations. 'Ne
Need of Common Program
There is no evidence, as vet. that
general lnter-allied labor conference
VIII De held here; Yet such develop-
aeh! Is possible. Not only has the
prItlSh LABOR movement recently as
sumed an attitude of debating terms
to the government in return for its
PERMISSION TO the government to draft
more OF the workers to go into bat-
ue' put Its example has had the nat
ural effect IN France and italy. Labor
organizations suddenly find themselves
IN stronger position than ever they
had dreamed of. The leaders are in
need of common program. a clearly
denned policy. They realize the COM
paratlVe isolation and conservatism of
me trade union movement of the
United States, and they hope to bring
about new understanding which shaft
line up the labor movements of all the
allied nations on one platform, to be
carried out by joint action as against
the big capitalist groups of these
countries, in the weeks and months
just ahead.
A conference is needed. One NAV
soon be held. If it is not held. then
nothing can stop the trend of events
toward an international labor confer
ence, called by the Russian Bolsheviki
or some other syndicalist element, to
'H~-N- 40 - AANNAA a. plldl-
Revolution in Germany.
Germany's revolution, led by the
socialists, seems now to be
on the eve of its expected bloody out
break. That is the view of neutral
observers who have come out of Ger
many recently, and whose testimony
has been reported to Washington.
Starvation and sickness and the war
WEAKNESS that has crept like a paraly-
SIS upon the minds of the people of
Europe are crushing the German war
machine. TrotSky and his Bolshevik
agitators along the eastern front are
every day laying more powder for the
mine that finally will blow the Ger
man Junker system into bits. Every
day there comes out of Germany more
evidence that the German labor move
ment Is swerving to the radical So
cialists, and away from the conserv-
ative Scheidemann socialist organiza-
ton Not even Russia will have a
more radical labor movement, in that
day just around the corner of written
history.
Finland has established a socialist
republic which is now being recog-
nized by the powers on both sides
of the battle lines. Its labor move
ment, like that of Switzerland and
ShAAAi AiSlAstill anu
favors an international labor confer
ence, such as was attempted at Stock
holm last summer, TO bring pressure
on the nations to hasten the end of
war. These movements are near
neighbors to the French and Italian
and British labor organizations. There
is no wide difference of policy among
them. as TO fundamental means of i'm
proving the position of the working
class. The French and British gov
ernments realized this, some time
ago, and took steps to win back the
of their working class for
the war "to the bitter end" They
saw revolution coming in Germany,
and they sought to prevent revolution,
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