Arizona republican., 1919-06-14
URGE LABOR NIT
 T0 SUPPORT THE
 MOONEY STRIKE
Secretary Wilson Denounc- es Bolshevism-Is Cheered by American Labor Men Appeals Against Nation Wide Strike for Mooney

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., June 13.- Secretary of Labor Wilson, speaking before the convention of the American Federation of Labor, today urged or gauized labor to refuse to support the nationwide strike which has been pro posed as a protest against tine convic- ton of Thomas J. Money. Mir. Wilson told the delegates that the government Was Investigating the claim that new evidence justified a new trial and that he. himself was devoting much time 10 the case.
 The secretary declared that so far the governments inquiry had shown that the judge and jury before whom Mooney was tried had conducted them selves properly and that on the evil dcnce the jury had to convict He ad- mitted that new evidence might de- yelop which would alter the situation.
 But he continued, "for organized labor to participate in such d strike as is. proposed would simply mean that la hor was trying Mooney, without the benefit of evidence. Very few of us are familiar with all the evidence. yet ev- cry worHngman is asked to make him self juror. Justice cannot be ob- tained in that way
 Denounoes Bolshevism
 Secretary Wilson then turned his at tontiou Co bolsheVism and was heartily cheered when he asserted that no ele- mcnt of American labor would stand for holshevism for a moment when the true meaning Of the movement was un- dcrstood.
 Closely allied to the work of the In- dGstrial Workers of the World during the past year. he said. there has been more or less bolshevism agitation in Tho United States which has not been to any great extent manifest among the real wage workers of the country but which has existed principally among the parlor coal diggers of our country.
 We have no fear of political rev. olutiOn in the United States. It may be possible these parlorites may hs mis- guiding a sufficient number of the iahorlng people to cause local disturb nces that will he annoying but not one m the ranks of labor-Whether he is rlassed as an extreme radical or an eX- trtmc conscrva live or in all the eIe- ments between those tWO-Will stand for bolshevism for a minute when he knows what bolshevism itself stands for
 They talk a leat deal about the div tatorship Of the proletarat and We who have been more or less familiar WIh tho theories that have been prom ulgh-ed by Marx and his association Of n.etatorshiD of the proletariat had in t.rpreted the dream to mean that a majority or the workers of the land would determine the policy of it and impose it upon the balance of our peo- pie. And our workers were not will ing, to accept even that kind of prin- ciple.
 Workers Won't Stand For It
 The workers of this country, the laborers who have fought and strug- sled for all these centuries take the stand that every person who has to obey the laws Of a country ought to have a voice to determine what these laws should he and having fought through all the centuries for the ac- comlishment of that ideal, having ac- ccmplishment of that ideal, having ac- American i5 not anxious to impose the same kind Of Acknowledgement upon other portions of the people that he bad fought being imposed upon him self
 "The great distinction between slavery and freedom is that under free dom every man shall have the right to cease work for any reason that may be sufficient tO himself We have pro ceeded to the extent of sacrificing our blood and our treasure against the dictatorship of the monarchical autoc- racy of Germany.
 The American Workingman wants nothing Of that kind of dictatorship of proletariat, The American working man wants nothing of that kind of obligatory labor. The American work lngman wants nothing of the political. social or economic conditions that have existed and still exist in Russia. We have worked out our scheme far be- Nond ,that stage and We are going to continue 10 work it out to the achieve ment of higher ideals and by the will Of no advance guard no matter how just or right their position might be but by the will Of the majority them selves
 eGompers Echoes Statement
 President Gompers, after roar oi applause for Secretary Wilson had subsided, said Chat workers every where