The Connecticut labor press. (New Haven, Conn.) 191?-1921, 1919-05-10
LABOR LEADERS
SEE WARNING IN
MAY DAY RIOTS
Propaganda Financed by Russian
Bolshevild Is Menace to the
United States.
MAJOR BERRY'S OPINION
Pacifists and Germans Behind the
Movement Declares Hugh
Frayne of Federation.

Heads of the international unions in
New York this week declare that the
disturbances on May Day in various
parts of the country must serve as a
warning that powerful influences are at
work and more serious disturbances can
be expected. Hugh Frayne, general or
ganizer of the American Federation OF
Labor and labor member of the late
War Industries Board. said:
Il have contended that any person
who says there is no unrest and that
Bolshevism does not threaten is mis-
taken Every paclhst every opponent
of the government during the war. is
allied with the Bolshevik element. Be-
hind them all is Germany. The German
en1issaries are still in our midst, and
should Bolshevism triumph-which il
will not-you would find these Germans
out in front. t-.
The significant part of the disturb
ances here and elsewhere is the action
of the returned soldiers and sailors.
These men, back from the front where
they suffered everything, returning to
find these people trying to destroy what
they fought for, are naturally not quite
as conservative in their treatment of
them as they might be. They resent
attacks on the American form of gov
ernment, they resent the hosting of a
red flag or no flag in place of the Amer
lean flag. and they resent the substitu-
ton of the Internationally or some 9th
er song for The Star-Spangled Ban
ner.'
THE soldiers represent real Amer
lean sentiment of today, and they ap-
ply to the enemies of the American
government at home the same treat
ment that they gave German enemies
abroad" ~ -
I'VE will have more instead of less
of this sort Of thing" said Frank
Feeney, International president of the
Elevator Constructors Union. @''The
cure? Well, about 10 days ago,a pair
of BolsheVih sought to convert work
men on municipal pier- in sPhlladel-
pfiia BY calling the American flag a
derrick, and, after preparing to lynch
them, yielded to cooler judgment and
soaked them in the river. They threw
them III and hauled them out, and then
made them run the gantIet.
8. Those two were cured. AT least,
they di ! not come back, or any others
TO tak their places"
Governments that permit men advo-
eating revolution. to hold meetings are
lax" declared B. A. Larger, general
secretary treasurer of the United Gar.
ment Workers of America. This move
ment responsible for the disturbances
of May Day is financed by money from
Russia. 1t will not get anywhere, for
the mass of the people will not stand
for the doctrines preached by these
Of the scrNuarf1rY1RnfV
The disturbances of May Day" said
Major George I. Berry, international
president of the Printing Pressmen's
Union, are the result of the efforts of
impossibilists, not only to break down
our form of government, but to break
down all government. AS a means to
that end, they seek first to destroy the
trade union movement and the stand
ards it has succeeded in setting up.
The men back of this thing are disci-
plies of the eleventh hour, fifty ninth
minute philosophy of Lenine and
Trotzky.
"The only danger, as i see it. is that
American people will SIT quietly by and
permit their silence to be interpreted
as acquiescence 1t is time for all
Americans to be up on their feet"
The disturbances, particularly in
Cleveland, were not as bad as l
thought they would be-" said Robert
Maise1, director of the American Ali
anee for Labor and Democracy, of
which Samuel Gompers is the head.
Our reports, as of last Saturday, in
dicated there would be serious trouble
there. The fact is that Bolsheviki ad-
vocates from, New York, Chicago and
Detroit have invaded Ohio, just like.
flock of mosquitoes sometimes irlvades
New York from New Jersey.
The real effort of these people will
not begin until the peace treaty is actu-
ally signed. Then you may look for
organized demonstrations against the
government in many places. Ii will
be the same as in the early stages of
the war. when anarchists and I. w. w.
tried to stage trouble in various places.
In those places citizens took matters into
their own hands. That is the danger
now-that the weakness of local govern
ments in handling these advocates of
anarchy is likely to result in the people
taking their own way of putting 2n end
to the propaganda or worse.
Beyond the shadow of doubt, the
work is being Financed in large part
by money from Russia"
:I0TNERS ON THE JUMP.