The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-16
GOODRICH SEES DANGER
OF LABOR DOMINATION
Governor of Indiana Says Washington
. Administration Has Widened
Influence of Reds

st. Louis, Oct. 14.-While discussing
the Adamson lay, the steel strike, and
the printers strike, Governor James P.
Goodrich of Indiana, in speaking before
the Grain Dealers National associat-
ion here tonight, said that it is ap,
parent now that the pendulum has
again swung too far in the direction of
control, and that the influence of radi-
Gals in this country has been material
ly widened by encouragement in num-
erous ways by the Administration in
Washington.
Just as we fought the domination
of the slave oligarchy in the middle
of the nineteenth century and the CAPT
talistic class in the latter part of the
nineteenth century, so must we fight
the domination Of this other class in
the early part of the twentieth cen
fury" he said.
There is no more dangerous force
operating among us today than the
class-minded man, whether he is a
| laborer, capitalist. or farmer, the
one who demands a privilege for his
class at the expense of the American
people.
Led by unreasoning promisers of
Utopia, millions of honest Americans
! are being drawn into debauch of in.
| dustrial revolution. Reason languishes
! in a resort to violence, license sup.
! plants liberty and justice is forgotten
in mad chase for the rainbow's end.
| THE time has come when every citi-
zen of this nation should halt in his
daily doings and searching his soul,
ask himself the question; Am | an
! American" Upon the answer depends
| the future CT the republic. American
ism cannot live under the shackles of
| class control
Il concede the right OF the worker to
organize, bargain collectively and in
every legitimate patriotic way ad-
| vance the interest of his class just as
| concede to every worker the right not
| to belong to an organization IL he so
elects. But it is clearly apparent for
the time being that the organized
workers in any lines OF industry in
America have fallen under the control
OF radicals like Foster and Fitzpatrick,
while Gompers and some Others of the
conservative type are no longer able to
control its policies.
Foster. Fitzpatrick and their group
are openly and frankly direct action.
lists, and if they win their fight the
American Federation of Labor. with
all its vast power, will pass under their
absolute control
The ominous cloud first appeared
\ in the passage of the Adamson. law. I
nave no doubt that the responsibility
Tor this piece of class legislation at
taches directly TO the President of the
United States. l believe then that the
passage of the Adan1son Act, involving
surrender by the Railroad Brother.
moods of the principle of collective
bargaining for legislative wage fixing
ultimately would lead to their ow,
ruin have never changed my opin-
! ion.
IF labor is big enough and ihtelli.
gent enough, as | believe it to be. it
can gain its just ends, particularly If it
VIII at all times keep in mind the well
( fare of the whole country and under.
stand that in the long RIM wa aro oil
tgoing up or down together.
I We must not yield the liberty we
nave gained. Governments do not re-.
man stationary. We must perfect our
: american institutions or finally lose
them '''e