Arizona republican., 1919-01-18
LABOR COUNCIL
 VOTES NATIONAL
 STRIKE JULY

(Contnued From Page One) namely, that when the hour arrives for theu SC of the strike weapon that it shall be surrounded and protected with all the rigorous safeguards that go to make up general movement among the labOring masses for living conditions.
 Your committee takes the position that the program should be worked out and exhausted step by step until there is no remaining doubt among the laboring masses that there is no other solution left and that solution will then lie in the use of the strike weapon. We therefore submit that no spo- radio strike not properly organized will be of value. When we have failed to have brought to a successful issue the remedies outlined your committee urges the delegates of local unions district councils, central bodies, state federations, national and international unions of the bodies assembled to one and all consider the necessity before us to so organize that the machinery in the 1 several branches and departments of 1 labor, when the hour arrives after all i other remedies are exhausted. that q | general strike vote may be taken in ev- cry local union in the entire labor l movement.
 Vote on Strike | Your committee recommends that | the taking of d strike vote commence at the earliest possible date, and that this | convention request all national and in l ternational officers to submit this question to a referendum vote in ac- cOrdance with the constitutions of their ] n Isfgf fff1s hot be in, and tabulated on or before June 1 and that the date for the general strike be set for the Fourth of July, 19l9 the day of American indepen- dence'
 The resolution proclaimins the na- i uonal Islicies affecting labor contains i these paragraphs:
 We hold that in this day of world | changes when empires are crumbling before the onward advance of democ- racy, that the Mooney case symbolizes 1 all the oppression and bitterness of the 1 struggle of the toiling masses of hu- manity to rise up and shake off the shackles that have kept in bondage the toilers of the world The Mooney case involves ideals of elementary justice. and therefore, we feel justified in ap- plying these ideals to the pregnant tquestions of the hour. l We decNre that all nations have the inherent right. the right on which all popular government is founded. to de- | termine their own mode of living and | to be governed by the consent of the | governed
 New Day Dawnnq We further proclaim that the ideas of government of the new day which is now dawning shows the necessity Of l n Ci iT,or ha Tie z ness to society, rather than upon wealth or inherited privilege. The de- partment of labor of the United States has declared that the issue of the Mooney cases ranks with the major 1 issues of the war.
 Tt is the custom between the nations of the earth from times immemorial that when war ceases, prisoners are re- leased. We believe in the light of mod ern development, that if there is going 10 be permanent peace on earth, all po- | lltlcal and industrial prisoners should 1 receive the same consideration as pris- oners, of war We believe we voice the 1 hope and desire of labor that now that | the war Is over, the men and women whose conscience did not allow them to shed human blood can now without In the slightest degree imperiing the ! issues of the war, be restored to liberty
 Later the convention inserted amend ments calling on Great Britain to give freedom to Ireland and protection to the Jews in all countries of the world.
 The American Federation of Labor | will be asked to endorse the general strike at it's next annual convention.
 Changeabe Toward Wilson
 The Mooney case program resulted in fr.nasr sld.lNR 1, course of which radical delegates op- posed the sending of a committee to Washington to ask federal intervention and demanded that the date of the general strike be set for May l. The conservatives finally succeeded in hay ing the committee report adopted by vote of more than two to one In the discussion President Wilson's name was hissed and July 4 was sneeringly referred to as "the masters holiday" Later William Spooner Of Oakland Cal, paid a tribute to President Wilson for his sympathetic attitude toward labor and the convention by a rising vote extended thanks to the chief ex- ecutive for his efforts to obtain Moon- eys release.
 At one stage in the discussion, q western delegate shouted: I've will stop every wheel in the land and make the country look like an Arizona desert'
 Recognize Danger of Failure
 A. Johanson of Chicago said the ~reat danger was from the silent labor leadeIs who had declined thus far to express themselves on the Mooney case He mentioned five in San Francisco who had refused to become interested. W. D. Patterson of Oakland. Cal C. l.. Nicholson of Cleveland. Morris Braun of New York and others spoke in sup port of the committee report and warned that if the strike was set for an earlier date than July 1. it might fail.
 Chairman E. D. Nolan, in comment ing on the action of the convention said:
 q consider the declaration on labor 0olicies adopted by this convention as the biggest and most far reaching movement begun by any body of gov ernment in connection with the recon struction which the war has made nec- essary.'
 w. r. Dunn of Butte, Mont. in speak ing for the radical delegates said: | This general strike is revolution If