New-York tribune., 1919-09-02

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Samuel Gompers. president of the
American Federation Of Labor, and the
leaders of the railway brotherhoods,
the threatened railroad strike was !
averted and the country spared ter
rible tragedy.
"On every hand there are strikes and
threats of strikes. Most of these dis
turbances have been provoked by radi-
cal agitators who have not the inter
csts of the toilers at heart, but who
seek to promote industrial warfare for
the purpose of destroying our present
economic system and substituting 'in-
dustral ownership by the proletariat.'
Fortunately, the same leaders Of or
ganized LABOR have, after a short pc
rod, succeeded in regaining control Of
their TEN porarily rebelhous unions and
restoring orderly procedure under the
laws and rules of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
'Thc conduct of men who call them
selves loyal supporters of trade union
lsm in breaking away from the author
ity of their duly elected officials and
inaugurating uncalled for, unnecessary
and unauthorized strikes should at all
times be severely condemned and the
agitators who foment such outbreaks
should be visited with the severest
penalties possible under trade union
rules. For trade unions TO permit
themselves to be brought under the
influence Of lawless agitators at this
time Of national stress is treason not
only to the principles of trade union
ism but to the United States of Amer
ica- 1t would not be too severe punish
ment to revoke the Anne Fedora
tion of Labor charters of such unions
and put them outside the pale Of
decent organized labor.
Labor Owes Duty to President
your committee is of the opinion
that President wilson's reasoning is
based on sound economic principles and
that organized labor owes duty to the
President to give him wholehe hearted
assistance in his efforts to reduce the
cost of living and place the nation on
a strong business basis We owe the
President of the United States the same
loyal support that we gave him during
the war, even though we may suffer
from a temporary disadvantage which
after all may be more apparent than
zeal.
Your committee therefore recon-
mends:
"FIRST-That organized labor exert
itself to the utmost to increase pro-
duction of essential commodities and
thereby lower the cost to the producer,
20 enable him to lower the cost to the
consumer. This applies, not alone to
the necessaries of life, but to all manu-
factured articles which arc bartered in
commerce at home and abroad, and the
production, manufacture and sale of
which labor draws its earnings and en-
ployers their profits. This can only be
accomplished by employers and wage
earners working together to that end
each casting aside all striving for tenn
porary advantage and pulling together
in double harness for. the general good
of all the people of the United States
and the emancipation of the world
from the enconomic troubles which now
beset the peoples of all lands. The
eight-hour day for toilers is, generally
speaking, an accomplished fact
ut is labor's duty and it should be
its pleasure to produce as much in
eight hours as it formerly produced
in ten, and even more. To that end
every man and woman that works fo1
wages should bend every effort to let
ting the close of each days work see
that he or she has individually added
commodities to the wealth of the world
than he or she produced the day be-
fore.
Should Be No Letting Down
There should be no letting down
There must be intensified production
That means that we will all have K
work little harder than we are nov
working Our material reward viii
come through decreasing the cost o.
living, thus automatically increasing
our wages. Our spiritual reward viii
come from the fact that every addi
tional motion we make with our tool.
adds - so much to the help we ex
tend to the people of other lands wnt
ere less fortunate than we Americans
Remember what Samuel Gomperi
has said: American labor fights not
90 much for itself as it does to bring
more Of light and happiness into tkt