Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-11-13
Mr.. GOMPERS IS RIGHT

MR.. GOMPERS is RIGHT IN SOME OF HIS
AVA charges against "bg business namely, that it in
tends to hit at labor Mr. Gompers says that at the time
the steel workers walked out information had come to him
from two which he could not disregard that big
business had met and consulted and had determined that
the moment proper to administer blow to
gained labor Labor gaining much power and in
fuence that business determined to crush and for
ALL 1t is surprising that Mr. Gompers should limit his
of information to two, because ne could have OBJ
tanned the same information from zoo or from 1000 diff
ferent sources if he had wanted He is wrong when he
says that business wants to crush organized labor 1t does
not want to do that 1t does want to crush the radicasm
in control Of it. 1t is not only big business but also
little business wanting to become bigbut which labor
to be determined to prevenand not only big and
little business but the public and the whole country
which is aroused to the which labor offers at this
time.
Mr. Gompers realizes that the corner has been turned
and his flmnations against the Steel Corporation and
against the newspapers being responsible for existing
conditions are but the evidence of his attempt to
lost cause Mr. Gompers is right in his statement that
labor has gained too much power and influences
The labor leaders have mistaken the temper Of the
American people, They have been intoxicated with sue
cess therefore they have lost their of direction Mr.
Gompers of all men should know that the American peo
pie although very patient and long suffering have fash
ion of unsettng matters and settling them right when
they are once aroused So far the autoratc and dOm
neerng attitude of labor is concerned, the handwriting
the wall is perfectly clear The spirit of Congress
has changed the spirit Of the administration has changed
There determination throughout the country to place
mean humiating place, except labor humates itself
by its un-Americanism
Senator Edge pointed out in a speech in the Senate
the other day that some few years ago capital went to e
tremes in exploiting the public and it became necessary
to curb with state and national legislation and for the
drastic laws that followed it had only itself to thank Now
the time when labor exploiting the public and it
will find itself subjected to drastic laws and limitations
for which it will have only itself to blame. Labor is
American when it seeks to curta production especially
when America being looked to by the entire world for
succOr Anything that is un-American is out of place In
America It simply does not co. and when the American
people realize the existence of any such condition they set
about correcting it. Mr. Gompers undoubtedly senses
situation and endeavorng to place the blame other
shoulders.
poyers deliberately provoked strikes against themselves
for the purpose Of crushing labor has familiar ring We
do not wish to place American labor as whole on any
similar basis but it not very long ago that
listening to Germany charge that she had been attacked
by her enemies and the defensive; other words
that England had provoked the war for the purpose of
bringing about her economic ruin 1t the wall of an
overbearing autocrat seeking to justify himself in inn
possible situation The labor autOcrats trying to
Justify themselves in a similar fashion.
It should be borne in mind that only Is per cent Of
American labor is organized, and that the other 85 per
cent can be counted upon to act with sanity and common
OF the Is per cent organized the greater proper
ton of it is also safe and sane and going about its bust
ness in an orderly fashion But there is also small
minority in CONTROL probably Is per cent of the original
Is per cent that is causing all the trouble. treaty. comes
down to very small fraction of American labor that Isl
causing the present agitation those comprising this frac
ton finding theselves able to sway their fellows These
are the ones who are to be taught where they belong just
as necessary to teach few of the leaders Of capital
similar lesson a few years ago. Labor, having EN-
barked upon career of profeerng must accept the con-
sequences.-New York Commercial