Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-19
Purpose of Federation is to
Attract More Conservative
of Radicals With Progress
SiVe Program,
WESTERN DELEGATES
TAINTED BY B0LSHEVISM
Secretary Wilson'S Appeal Had
Great Influence in Prevent
ing Nationwide Strike in
Favor of Mooney,
By Louis Scibold.

| Atlantic City, N. J.. June lS.-An
analysis of the flood Of resolutions in
I troduced in the convention of the
! American Federation of Labor, which
will write both its social and political
| platforms this week, reveals some
very interesting features regarding
the trend of thought among organized
trades unions.
The rejection of the soviet Mooney
and May ! resolutions yesterday
marked the convention as conscrva-
tive But there is radicalism, in
plenty present. and it is working
hard
The ovcrshadowng consideration
that appears to WELD the greatest in
| fluence in shaping the policy of or
ganized labor is the manifest desire of
! the leaders to split the two socialist
wings of the party, This is to he ac-
complished by building progressively
constructive program designed to at
| tract to the federation many hun
| dredS Of thousands of radicals who
| permit Bolshevism prOpagandists and
the exponents Of force to sweep them
off their feet and incite them to rev.
olutionary devices in order to secure
| the reforms which the organized
groups will endeaVor to convince them
can be secured by more peaceful but
equally effective paSthods.
The indications are that the ambi-
| tiOns of the trades union leaders will
| prove successful in this respect,
| though the considerable radical group
which while temporarily in eclipse is
quite numerous and mischievously in
clined, may still compel some revision
of the mparatively conservative
| plans of the leaders at present
| Suppression Partly Accomplished.
The suppression of this radical Gle
ment has been partly accomplished
| by adroit management. An accidental
contribution was of course. the per-
patration of the two bomb ventures of
the extreme, or red" groups among
the outlaw Bolshevists. Those occur
rcnCos did more to discourage the
promoters of direct action" and the
advocates of force than all the plans
framed by the leaders, If they had
not occurred, it is not improbable
that a serious attempt would have
been made tOswrest me control Of the
federation from the hands of Presi- e
dent Gompers and the other impor-
tant leaders who are keenly alive to
the dangers of extravagant and ill
advised radical ventures such as are
demanded by the "parlor socialist
and |. w, w. adherents
There is little probability of the
convention Surrendering to the spirit
of outlawry now though the advO-
Gates of the process of force are likely
to insist on what they describe to he
advanced prOgrcssiVism." Some of
the resolutions offered for the con-
sideration of the thousand or more
delegates who represent the 100000
organized trades unionists of the
country clearly reflect this determina-
ton,
Many Tainted With Bolshevism.
There is no denying the fact that a
great many of the more susceptible
of the leaders Of western locals af-
filiated with the federation are
tainted with BOlshevism. Further, it
is manifest that most of the men of
this type are actuated by impuIsive
influences rather than the processes
of reasoning and conviction. They are
inclined to accept without applying
intelligent appraisal the more or less
absurd declarations of the radical
groups who have distorted facts and
figures to justify their conclusions.
l have heard some of the delegates
to the American Federation of Labor
convention discuss various phases Of
the Bolshevist plan of soviet govern
ment and the Mooney case in a man
ner that showed Enthusiastically they
did not know anything about either,
but had formed Impressions from the
preJudiced and speclous arguments of
agltators. In other words, | have the
dlstinct impression mat great many
OF the faolcaIy lnclihed supporters OF
lhe ooctrlne OF 1orce 90 not Know
wldt they are taikihs ABOUT When
'hey ulscuss elluer questlon'
taken the trouble to dissect and