Republican farmer., 1919-04-25
BOLSHEiVfIKI PLAN BIG LABOR WAR
 IN NEW YORK

New York, April 22.-With New York as their base, and relying on the radical labor organizations of the East Side for support, the BoIshevik sympathizers, who have been fighting the United Textile Workers IT Lawr
 ence, Mass, for several weeks, now propose to launch a general cam paign, having for it's object the dis ruption of the American Federatios of Labor.
 According to information which has come to officers Of the federation
 in New York, the program calls for ! the organization of rival unions, more particularly in the clothing and tex
 tile trades, wherever the existing
 unions do not go far enough to please the altra-radical element.
 The leaders in the movement. ac- cording to information which will be laid before the executive council of the federation at its next meeting, are the Rev. Cedric Long and ths Rev. A. J. Cedric, clergymen without | charges. who, with Ime Kaplan, are said to have been concerned in the Lawrence trouble. Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation. said yes terday that this meeting will be held in Washington on May g.
 The decision of the Lawrence lead | CTS. where eighty per cent. of the 1 workers are opposed to the methods l being used, to come to New York, follows the gradual collapse of that ! movement, and the offer of wider field in this city, for their peculiar
 methods of treating industrial ques- ! lions. Mrs. Glendower Evans, an aged ! Boston woman, who is said to have helped the Lawrence trouble, is ex- l pected to assist in the work, which l will have the passive. if not active, l support of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union.
 This organization. which has been fighting the American Federation of Labor since it's inception, has been 1 the cause of friction between the l larger body and the United Hebrew Trades, which has figured at recent ] conventions of the federation. It has | backed all movements calculated to
 weaken the federation. The present
 move is particularly directed against l the United Textile Workers. According to the information
 reaching federation leaders in this | city, the decision to abandon Lawr- ! ence as a field of operations synchro-
 nizes with a falling off in contribution 1 for the support of that strike and the | decision of the Massachusetts authori- 1 ties to ask for the deportation of l many of the local leaders.
 1 Nearly all of these are aliens, who obtained exemption from the draft by l claiming to be citizens of Russia or | Italy.
 l The Massa chusetts State Board of | Arbitration is expected to recommend 1 deportation following the conclusion
 of the inquiry begun early last week | This inquiry shows that the prepon- ! derating majority of the workers in ! that city are satisfied with the exist 1 ing conditions. and are content to fol- 1 low the advice of the United Textile
 Workers and wait until the mills have 1 plenty of work before demanding any l increase in wages. With the mills oB
 a thirty-six-hour basis. and some idle, l these, led by John Golden, declare
 discussion of wage increases is a | waste of time.
 The so-called aliens" he says,
 "are for the most part anxious to do i what is right The threats of knives
 and dynamite bombs hold many of them out. Gradually they are get ting to the point where they brave | even these, the more so as their funds |
 are depleted and they must work or 1 draw upon their savings for support l This they will not do.
 Were it not for the money provid- | ed by Mrs. Evans and some funds 1 New York radicals are providing, the
 thing would have collapsed weeks
 ago. As it is, it is breaking down. l and this, coupled with the promise 1 of wider opportunities for their class | of work in New York. has led to the
 decision of the so-called leaders to
 gradually withdraw from Lawrence
 for the time being at least
 "The whole thing is part of the
 general movement of those who sym
 pathize with the Bolshevik movement
 to smash, if possible, and, if not
 limit the usefulness of the American
 Federation of Labor. In this the en
 tire secessionist labor movement has
 Joined. The best they can hope for is
 to make a little trouble here ana ]