Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-27
cANFiELD. HEAD OF STATE FED
\ GRAFTON, SAYS UNIONS ARE
y FACING CRISIS.
MUST PURGE ITSELF
OF RADICAL ELEMENTS
Labor Must Choose Between |. w. w.
and Conservative and Constructive
Leadership-Canfield Declares Rank
and File Of Workers Are Patriotic
But Must Be Recognized.
es-Republlcan.

Special to Times Republican.
\ Des Moines, Oct. Eth an address
delivered today before the social well
| fare congress at Muscatine Fred A.
, Garfield president of the Iowa Fed
Grafton of Labor, discussed the labor
union as n stabilizing force in indus
| trial reimbursement. He declared that
since the close of the war the great
est need is for organized industrial
| leadership with the vision. the sanity
and the wisdom and public spirit to
deal with the big problems of recon-
struction.
THE first reaction following the
breaking of the social, political and
economic restraints which war i'm
posed was naturally spirit of unre-
straint. a defiance of authority he
said, in speaking of conditions follow
ing the war. Freedom became IL
cense. Liberty was interpreted as an
entire lack of moderation in which any
excuses were justified.
Il know of nothing which better IL
Illustrates this false conception of the
new freedom better than the story Of
the Russian cabnan, who, when re-
monstrated with for driving his We
hicle down the wrong side of the street,
protested that he was now free man
and could drive anywhere he pleased"
He declared that underneath the sur
face today conditions are unstable and
there Is a seething mass of social I'M
rest ready to burst forth into a volcano
that will destroy all that was good
along with that which was bad in the
old order.
Danger Admitted.
'T do not need to point out its many
manifestations whose deep rumblings
can be heard everywhere which should
serve as a warning that all is not we'll
in the industrial system Of the United
States" he continued
Now what is most needed to direct
the mighty industrial forces along right
lines Is clear headed, far-sighted, con-
structive leadership among the labor
ing classes and a recognition of 1t not
only by the laborers themselves but by
every other class in society. Such
leadership can work only thru the
channels and machinery of organized
labor, by means of which 1t can be the
principal stabiliZing force during the
period OF Industrial readtustment.
81 want to say to you, my friends,
that the; leaders Of Industrial labor, the
homes on whom depend the future in
dustrial peace Of this country, are in
a critical situation today. We might
as well admit it frankly. Speaking to
you as an American citizen and not
merely as a representative Of a single
class. say that there Is not one of US
who knows what the morrow will bring
forth.
1.-THE forces Of extreme radicaliSm
are threatening to gain control and II
they are once in the saddle God help
the United States of America.
Foes Without and Within
where ever one turns he finds the
patriotic, public spirited laboring men,
the men who put the love Of country
before personal gain thruout the war
and furnished the sinews Of war to
the boys at the front-are face to face
with hostile foes both from without and
within. On the one hand are forces Of
reactionary business which see in the
present situation the possibility of
turning back to the old days Of eco
nomic barbarism and Of wiping out
all the advances which industrial lib
eralism has made In the last genera
ton. On the other hand are the grow
ing forces Of extreme radicalism work.
ing from within to gain control of the
labor organization, seeking to over
throw all institutions of law and or
der, to destroy all government, and to
plunge society into the chaos Of an
arctA And, my friends, I say to you
in all seriousness, that unless the la
Dor element that believes in safe and
sane progress, in enlightened liberal
ism> in constructive readjustment, re-
ceiyes the support of the great mass
Of the American people. extreme rad
icalisn will prevail as evolution gives
way to- revolution and our American
institutions are winnowed like chaff
in the blast Of Industrial, social and
political whirlwinds."
Radicals Control Steel Strike
He declared that extreme conserva-
ton playing into the hands of extreme
radicalisnA brought about the present
unhappy condition in the steel indus
try. ~.
y. yet" he continued when the rep
resentatives Of the honest, public spir-
tied, patriotic, liberal American labor
ers pleaded at, the presidents confer
ence for recognition of certain funda-
mental principles of justice In the
steel industry, they were met with in
tolerant contempt by the representa-
tives Of capital and undisguised indif-
ference on the part Of majority OF
the representatives Of the public.
,l'I say to you, my friends, not as q
threat but as 4 warning that the time
has come when those who cherish the