The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-11-07
BEGINS DRIVE
| ON RADICALISM
.tty.-Gen. P'almer's Speech
Significant-Extremists
to Fare Hard.
LAD DAY FOR LABOR
government Has Set Out to
Distinguish Between
Two Types.
iLAD DAY FOR LABOR
10y DAVID LAWRENcE,)

81 d.
ne United States government re-
ises to surrender it's power of in
!. melton, and insists that the coal
trike be called Off. '
mat In a nutshell. is what Atty
4 en' Mitchell Palmer told Samuel
E ompers. president of the American
u ederation OF Labor, who came as
q intermediary In the hope of settl-
n tne coal strike. Enthusiastically
was acting with the knowledge Of
Y e mead OF the coal miners union,
4: iOugn ne was careful in his con-
AZ renee TO represent himself onlyAas
4 Ro-petween. The attorney general
II stened to the argument Of Mr.. Com
ers. VINO was accompanied by Frank
orrison and Matthew Woll, vice.
n esident and secretary, respectively,
n the American Federation of Labor.
ney pointed out the difficulties and
" angers OF the restraining order,
nose character Is to be made perma-
ent or not. according as Judge An
n erson rules In the federal court at
H. idianapolis tomorrow. But it seems
~ ertain that unless the coal strike is
I'll ailed OFF, the injunction will be made
ornament and the difficulties of the
VI pal miners in extricating themselves
om legal entanglements will be in
reased.
Unable to Promise.
Mr. Gompers was unable to promise
effnitely that II the government
fould withdraw it's application for
81 ornament Injunction, the coal strike
ould be called off. He could present
b guarantee to that effect. No as
" lrance on behalf of any organiza-
r. lon. He had simply an abiding
erfith" that II the government with
U rev the injunction. the coal strike
puld be settled in forty eight hours.
The attorney generals answer was
@ haracterized by a spirit of firmness
hd finality that was unmistakable.
W. e declared that in his opinion the
liners were doing an ill-advised
hing by striking. He said they had
PEN asked not to strike, but had ig-
fored the request of the president of
he United States and had fiouted the
1dhthority of the government. So
nlfng as the strike was in progress
bile iilegality was present, and the
I nited States government could not,
sspr moment countenance illegality.
u could not request the miners to
X6s Nspromising them
75 fat tIie iKjttfifeS Sidk would be with
iweawn. He would make no promises.
1o~l he would say was that il the
rike was called off illegality would
aeAase.
A1 The situation, therefore resolves it
er9lf into this: Should the coal min
aey.s present to the federal court a
,rsatement saying that the strike order
cwad been revoked, the government
Mould simultaneously present a re-
Aaslest that the injunction be vacated.
Il, To Think It Over.
ne Messrs. Gompers Woll and Morri-
1Asn retired to think it over just as
witty. Gen. Palmer motored from the
impairment of justice to the execu-
lilVe mansion, where he dropped in
oiw minutes on the president prior
\. "a the beginning of the cabinet meet
siEg in the adjacent offices of the
hite House.
.., The attorney general Is just back
~ ON a brief visit to Pennsylvania,
~ here he went to vote and also to
Make speech to the mayors of Penn
h9lvania cities and state officials at
4 harrisburg. He used Ihe opportunity
- drive home an attack on James
n aurer, president of the State Fed
alton of Labor of Pennsylvania,
no had just persuaded the state
invention of his organization to call
general strike throughout Pennsyl-
Ania. The attorney general drew a
tstinction between labor leaders of
he radical type like Naurer and the
nservatives like Gompers. Il cam
BIT believe" he said, that the vast
N bdy of the membership of the State |
y liberation of Labor, which is loyal
hd patriotic. will support this revo-
Etionary measure. Such methods
Iii set back the righteous cause of
Nbor for half a century, because 1t
Iii undo much that the wise, able
hid patriotic leaders of organized la
BIZ have been able to accomplish In
" Inerica. The high position of Amer
an labor today is due chiefly to the
4klendid leadership of men like Sam
kI Gompers, president of the Ameri-
4 n Federation Of Labor and Will
am B. Wilson, secretary of labor. an
4bnest citizen of our own state.
u uaurer is not of that kind. He has
5siced his purposes in no uncertain
anner.
cat a mass meeting of socialists at
#.rian hall, Portland, Ore, July 20.
sf7. Maurer said: why are we at
n ar? Because Morgan Schwab, Will
in and others are afraid of losing
u sillions of British securities and be-
use moneyed powers want war so
HUI to sell more munitions.
IaRg" What is conscription? Today
Se conscript comes before an exam
sing board and is given a similar
ramination as the slave to deter
ine his fitness for the army. If any
your people can show me the diff
rence between the conscript today
al the slave of 1861, | will gladly
s sten to you.
"At a, meeting held in Detroit. Jan.
"a 1919 Maurer further said: Let me
y to my socialist friends and to my
& aarchist friends that you cannot be
N q revolutionary for me, for l am as
Evolutionary as the next one. But
am not preaching that bomb and
rch stuff. I am not altogether sat
fed with the American Federation
A Labor, and perhaps some OF you
Se not; but go on the inside and
axe it be what you want it to be.
e. too. have our spying system and
now every one of them (referring to
& seeches of the capitalists), and bye
Nd bye some of them are going to
II hurt. l would advise them to go
IN the hills somewhere and shoot
emselves.'
Glad Day for Labor.
ghe attorney general read other
cerpts and said: ut will be glad
IN for labor in America when men
e the Maurer type lose their inf1u-
ace in its councils. Until that day
Gmes we can give the honest, pa
iotic working men of the nation no
, eater help than by preventing the
- snrers and the Fosters from ac-
lplishing their thinly concealed
Hutionary plans"
u APalmer speech was most sig v