New-York tribune., 1919-10-03
1nterchurch World Fedora
ton. in Session Here,
Hears John HI. Walker
and Orders an Inquiry
IS Bodies Represented
DIR. Hecker Warns of the
Bolshevist Menace and
Urges Clerical Action

Following an address by John Fl.
Walker. former president of the Hi
nois Federation of Labor, the Inter-
Church World Federation, in session
yesterday at the Hotel Pennsylvania,
instructed its Industrial Relations Com
mittee to investigate the steel strike
situation.
The federation. which consists Of
representatives from seventy-fve Prot
estant denominations and allied or
CARNATIONS in the United States, was
thrown into a heated debate by Mr..
Walkers attack on the attitude of
Judge Ebert II. Gary. chairman of the
United States Steel Corporation. Mr..
Walker asserted that "the churches
cannot be neutral where q moral is
sue is involved"
200 Delegates Present
Two hundred delegates attended the
conference, which was opened by DR..
Fred B. Fisher Of toston. chairman Of
the Industrial Ee,qtiors Committee of
the federation. ~ said the delegates
compose the Oest group of men in
the country that could be brought to-
gether to discuss the question Of par
teal problems of to-day"
Julius Hecker, Phi. D.. who repre-
sented the Y, NJ. c. A. for three and
one-haif years in Russia, was one Of
the speakers at the afternoon session.
He said he had attended the great labor
conference in Berne where representa-
tives of thirtytive nations were gath
cred.
"In Europe" said DR.. Hccker, "it was
a ctrnOrlp botWopn and
PHILOSOPHERS. On one hand was Wilson;
on the other Lenine. And l say to you
that Wilson, with mis- philosophy Of
concilaton, was no more adored IN
Europe than was the Babe at Bethle-
hem by the angels. | say to you that
his fourteen points were like heav-
emily harp. But its strings were harped
on SO long in Paris that there is not
one of them left unbroken.
81 say to you that the people of Eur
ope to man recognize that Wilson was
defeated and that Lenine triumped in
the great struggle. Lenine's opposing
philosophy was that the whole question
was the old one of predatory and sell
fish powers struggling afterwards for
alton, which Lenine contended was from
man who did not know human nature,
was drowned. The Intervention of the
churches in Europe was too long de-
layed. 1t is too late for their churches
now.
Bolshevism Spreads Here
"America must act with it's own prob
lens before it is too late here. When l
returned was surprised to find Boil
shevism so firmly entrenched. I can
emphasize this by telling of one of two
meetings that l attended on the lower
East Side There we're about three hun
dred there. They had come from Rus
sia When I left for Europe they pro-
claimed and believed in Christian prin-
ciples. When | attended that meeting
they were avowed Bolshevists to q
man."
Mr.. Walker, who followed DR.. Hecker.
launched at once into discussion of
Judge Gary's attitude toward the steel
strikers. He said Judge Gary's posi-
tion was summarized IN the statement: i:
mo one shall dictate to me how l
shall run my business"
"That," said Mr.. Walker, els one Of
those half truths which are worse than
the blackest of lies. The mischief of a
statement like that is that it sounds
so reasonable. But Mr.. Gary really in