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yet appeared much upon the surface
and that if it should be crossed. flout-
ed and bitterly disappointed now the
only result would be conflagration.
We in this country that never
learned what war really is, we can
no more understand the feelings
about it Of the plain people of Europe
than a deaf man can grasp a Beethov-
en- symphony. We dislike war. The
masses of the people of Europe do
not merely dislike it; they loathe it
and abhor it and sicken at the mere
thought of it and burn to be rid of it
forever. Not the statesmen of Europe
who lived through the war bomb
proofed nor the lords, mouldy mobiles,
profiteers and munition mongers: they
don't mind it much more than a. fly
in the ointment Of profits; but the
plain people. the working and farming
: masses whose toll has to pay the bills;
they grow sick and white at the mere
word of it.
No one can really know that feel
ing except one that was in and about
the bombarded regions while the war
was on or passed with intimate obser-
walton through the devastated country
side. The ceaseless terror, the sense
of utter helplessness before a huge,
primal, ravening, savage monster, the
blood, the ruins, the manned men,
the depleted households, the insanity
breeding uproar that never stopped
night or day. the afr raids, the sui
len boom of great shells against mems
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flee and made it only because those
objects were and are dearer to us
than any others. The only possible
outcome Of revolution in Europe now
would be vast reactin and the resur-
rection Of that autocracy that began
to be shot to pieces at Cantigny and
Belleau Woods.
Then are we to be frightened into
signing a treaty merely because the
people of Europe are hotter headed
than W are?
No sir. It isn't hot-headedness
that makes the trouble. but pro-
found conviction reached deliberately
from the most terrific experiences
ever known among men. And it isn't
because we are afraid that we ought
to sign but because we are too wise
and too sensible and too decent to re-
fuse this great boon to the races of
men. And because this treaty with
all it's minor defects is fundamental
ly sound and just; because it is the
best coordination Of different inter-
ests that could be arrived at; because
so long as it shall be in operation wars
of any magnitude will be- impossible
and because the league Of nations en-
bodied in it represents the greatest
the most momentous and the most
beneficent forward step mankind has
ever taken. "
Can you imagine the United States
of America laying itself deliberately
across this great shining road Of pro-
gress to block it? :. + >
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dwellings, the shell-ploughed fields,
the mad red dream that never let up
the soul Of Europe, which is it's toll
and thirst and pant for peace.
Seven months have passed since
the armistice began and yet the
treaty of peace for which Europe
throbs is not made. Day after day
the longing for it has grown more in
tense in these hearts. so poorly repre-
sented in the peace conference. They
long to see the world restored industry
resumed, and so far as possible the
wreckage of their lives repaired. They
long for some promise that the hell
they have been through shall not
come to them again.
All their hopes and all their chances
are bound up in this treaty of peace.
Aside from Germany and her ma
noeuvers, the governments of Europe
will sign it on the spot.
The one possibility of its defeat and
of the overthrow of the peoples hopes
is in the senate Of the United States.
If it goes down to defeat there it
is killed for all the world, and we
should understand clearly that in the
fathomless despair that would como
upon European masses anything
might happen. All reasoning men
that. know the tense situation will
agree that there are no bounds to the
disaster that might sweep across the
continent
What is that to us? We do not
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live in Europe. No corner of the
powder house stretches over here.
The people of this country will not
rise in revolt, no matter what be-
comes of the treaty.
True. But the interests Of this
country are just as much involved as
if the fireworks hung over our heads
also.
To take the lowest possible view
of it, we cannot have chaos in Eu-
rope without having disaster here.
Let the commercial organization be
overthrown there and the concussion
blows down our houses here. Chaos
in Europe would pull the corner
stones out of the arch of business
credits everywhere. Instantly it
would cut off the bulk of our foreign
trade. The first news of it would
start long trains of bankruptcies,
commercial disasters and Industrial
disturbances beyand anything we have
ever known.
The world. Of commerce in these
days is too closely interviewer and
interbraced. The run Of any. great
part of it shakes every other part OF
it. :.
But beyond all this we have an
other and much higher interest at
stake. w 9 waged an unselfish war
for worthy purpose. that democ-
racy should survive and not perish.
Revolution in Europe of the kind
that threatens now would obliterate
the objects ter which We made sacri-
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new YORK LABOR
UNIONS |ND0RSE
CHURCH. PROGRAM
At the Same, Time Condemn
Ralph N. Eas|ey, Secre-
tary Civic Federation.

= Organized labor in New York is up
in arms against the recent attempt
of the director of the national civic
federation to discredit the labor re-
construction program Of the national
Catholic war council, which is 'sub-
stantially the same as the program
adopted by labor itself.
A resolution unanimously adopted
at the meeting, May 16s of the Central
Federated union of Greater New York
and the Brooklyn Central Labor union
vigorously denounces Ralph NJ. Easley
for pretending to speak for organized
labor in assailing the enlightened pro-
nouncement of the Catholic hierarchy.
The resolution refers to Easley as
an "apologist for special privilege" It
declares that the advanced position
recently taken by the church on meas
ures of labor reform confirms the
belief of Catholic and non-C Catholic
workmen alike that this program
must be really and vitality important
to the welfare Of the workers or it
would not rouse the ire of the civic
federation"
The resolution adopted without a
dissenting vote. follows:
Whereas Ralph M. Easley, secretary
of the national civic federation states
in the Review their official organ,
under the caption. Radicals Mislead
Churches About Labor-Social Recon-
struction Program Put Forth by Cath
olic and Protestants Alike, Based on
Views of Near-Bolsheviki. not on
Ideas Of responsible organized labor,
that Il do not mean to imply for one
moment that representative men in
the Catholic and Protestant churches
have Intentionally done this thing, but
the work has been Intentionally done
just the same by Sociellsts or near So
cialists in their ranks and that This
raised the question. Why are the
churches all alike advocating the same
radical measures to aid the working
classes, which these same working
classes themselves do not want?" and
"Whereas, This same Ralph M. -Eas-
ley has long been known as a retainer
of the employing class whose purpose
is to chloroform any attempt at fun
damental reform on the part of thu
| working people. and who without au
/ thority attempts to speak for organ
| lied labor; therefore be it
"Resolved, That the Brooklyn Cen
! trail Labor union and the Central Fed
Grated union of Greater New Yorl
and vicinity, which adopted recon
struction program substantially th'
same as the Reconstruction program
| Of the National Catholic war council
congratulates the four bishops com
prising the reconstruction committee
upon having aroused the usual unfai
and untruthful opposition of thi
apologist for special privilge, because
it confirms the belief Of Catholic ant
non-Catholic workmen alike that thi
| program must be really and vitall!
important to the welfare of the work
ers or it would not arouse the ire O.
| the Civic federation. We further. ex
press our hearty approval of the Cath
olic reconstruction program and ou
belief that the rank and file Of labo
is in hearty sympathy with this pro
gram
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by CHARLEIS EDWARD RUSSEllI.
Here is a beautiful powder house
nearly thousand miles long and piled
to the roof with every style of ex-
plosive. Gunpowder, brown powder,
gun-cQtton, dynamite, cordite, lyd-
dite, INT everything calculated to so
off with bang is here. Somebody
says he has lost dime in the place.
Shall we then troop in with lighted
torches>and glazing pine knots and
candles and such things and help him
hunt for it?
That is about the size of the situa-
ton. Worthy senators Of the United
States that are unfamiliar with Eu-
rope have not the least conception Of
it. With the best of intentions they
want to go into the powder house
after the two nickels they think they
have lost in the peace treaty. If they
do, it will not be the treaty alone that
will blow up but the whole structure
Of civilization in Europe.
"Bolsheviks" yells somebody in the
gallery and runs for the fire alarm.
No, I don't mean Bolsheviks. 7
mean something even more seriously
menacing than an army Of Lenines
and wild-eyed Trotzkys.
mean this that 250,000.000 people
in Europe yearn passionately for
peace and it has become most peril
Gus to play tricks with the desire upon
which all their hopes and thoughts
are hung. I mean that there is a
force at work in Europe that has not
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BuRkES0N BACKS Down; WILL
NOW DEAL WITH union LABOR
Postmaster General Recedes From Former Position Assures
Committee From American Federation Of Labor That He Will
Treat With Union Repre- sentatiVes In Wire Cases.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June 19.-
P S t m ter General Burlesons
changed attitude with regard to
labor following the conference here
Saturday with committee repre-
senting the Federation and the
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
in which Mr.. Burleson agreed to
meet the committee further in an
effort to adjust matters and prevent
a situation that would lead to g.
strike later of the telephone elec-
trical workers of the nation, thus
tying up the telephone system in
definitely is expected to lead to an
early cessation of the strike of tele-
graph operators This was the pre-
diction of labor leaders.
The postmaster generals decision
to confer with the workers avoided
the strike called for Monday last
and members of the committee which
took the matter up with him in
Washington Saturday following the
demonstration of labor against the
eclipse of booze on July list, upon
their return to Atlantic City Sunday
said that they were satisfied that
an amicable arrangement would re-
suit from the conference that will be
held in Washington for their depart
to report back the result to the con-
VentiOn.
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WANTS PRESIDENT TO REMOVE
Manly. ;.:;;;::::.%!!AR g.: :.!!!!I |AB0R b0ARD
New Jersey Manufacturers Declare ms "Intempeate Utter
anCes" Published in The Labor World Last Week Make Him
"|ncapabe Of Properly Dschargng His Duties on Board"

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., June 19.-When Kirk Brown got after
Basil Manly before the Manufacturers Council Of New Jersey at Tren
ton yesterday he started something Passing resolution calling
the President Manly joint chairman of the National War
Labor Board didn't help matters The resolution said that
of his nemperate utterance speech this Manly had
shown himself incapable of properly dschgng his duties Brown
Manys speech socialism, that which
Bolshevsm."
Today the American Federation of Labor took the matter be-
choice members the board for
Delegate Joseph Cannon read from the resolution and speech and
that the draft condemnation
of the manufacturers action
"The Pubic" Asked to "Make Good"
The motion about through when Delegate Matthew Wo
member the War Labor Board the floor and added something
it. He told the convention that "The Public New York upl
had charged that labor members of the board had sd
out He said that letters "The Public demanding proof
on had brought satisfaction He asked that the resolution include
of Th Public The through amended
by unanimous vote
Commenting the cabegram Of the Manufacturers Council of
President the United States asking his
Manly said
~ This attack but the National War Labor Board
which the be chairman with exPdent Will
liam Howard Taft Mr. Taft nominated by the employer members
of the Board and by the labor members.
The the attack the War Labor Board obvious
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G0MPERS HEADS C0MM|l TO
ORGANIZE ALL STEEL WORKERS
Labor Determined to Break Down the Barriers Set Up By Steel
Barons Leaders viii Go to Jail Il Necessary Aim to Bring
Freedom to Men Employed in American Steel Industry.

ATLANTIC CITY, N j. June ia committee of "a presi
dents of international labor interested in the the
workers the steel industry headed by Samuel Gompers confer
Monday evening" decided Immediately to launch extraordinary
efforts the steel producing regions of the country
especially the Pittsburgh district and fight there for the right of free
assemblage free speech and free press.
The presidents of the pledged themselves go jail If
in the organize workers the Pittsburgh
MKeespo Homestead and region and out
equally other sections including the Alabama
steel centers.
Energetic all determined after it had
that the barons the Pittsburgh
have refused organization meetings to be held for the
last six months"
Steel Industry Set Against Union Labor.
declared that the employers the steel industry set
against permitting organization of their employees that time had
organized labor take firm stand the
contrary.
Gompers said that workers the packing industry had achieved
that the organization of the
steel industry could be completed quickly He warned the
leaders that the and steel powerful and wealth beyond
the ken of and that the contest likely be sharp
Aad we have managed secure the ghhou day the steel
tell that handed silver plate
Mr.. Gompers said.
know what the result might be if they failed
make the
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ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., June 19.-
Today was field day for fraternal del
egates. Margaret Bondfield and S.
Finney represented England, Thomas
Walsh, Canada, and Suzuki Japan.
Santiago Iglesias. who usually comes
to talk about Porto Rico has not ar
rived.
Miss Bondfield made vivacious
address and got warm applause. Fin
ney was more staid in speech, as he
is in appearance. He predicted a Ia
bor government next for England.
Walsh was bit fiery. He said there
are two main extremes in the Canad-
ian labor movement now, one con-
servative and one radical. He hoped
that soon they'd hit a sound middle
course. Suzuki smiled a happy smile
and said his aspiration was for con-
tinued expansion of democratic oppor-
tunities. He put in strong word for
the league of nations.
Here are some of the things Miss
Bondfield said:
1T is very vital indeed that the
American Federation of Labor and
the British Trade Union congress work
together. No country alone can work
out industrial salvation. The meth
DDS to be adopted must meet local
circumstances. I am profoundly con-
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With this opening wedge to recog-
milton Of the union principles by
the postmaster general the labor men
see the way clearing towards adjust
ing the troubles for the telegraph
operators and believe the impending
strike of the broker operators will
thus be avoided and the entire mat
ter settled within the next few days.
The fight Of the telephone elec-
tricians to secure from Mr.. Burleson
recognition of their rights as union
men for working agreement similar
to that which was accorded them
under private ownership, permitting
of the appointment of board of
mediation, composed equally of en-
p1oyers and employees, to bargain col
1ectively over any differences that
may arise.
In the resolution presented to the
convention at Atlantic City, leading
up to the appointment of the COM
mittee which met with success at
Washington Saturday it was declared
that both Mr.. Burleson and his first
assistant had promised to give this
to the workers some time ago but
endeavored to dodge responsibility
by handing the control back to pri-
vate owners
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SAYS BRITISH And AMERICAN LABOR
MOVEMENT SH0uL D WORK in UNISON
Fratna| Delegates to American Federation Of Labor Have Field
Day at Convention English Woman Delegate Is Militant
Tells Of Recent Labor r0ubeS in Great Britain.

vinced each must find the methods
suited to it's soil, it's temperament and
conditions.
"We feel that we are in the travail
Of the birth OF a new world. 1t de-
pends upon the labor forces whether
that world is a better one than the
old one. Out of dark night we are
looking toward very gray dawn at
present.
"'Who won the war? Well, we are
terribly anxious to know who won
the peace and we are confident that
it is fundamental thing to know how
the labor movement can use it's forces
for a lasting peace.
dur ing the war we never lost the
sense Of those things that mean lib
erty. Whenever we felt that the
spirit of patriotism was being used
for profiteering or selfish ends there
was an immediate flare-up and reac-
tion. =
"When you are told that agitators
stirred up strikes during the war
don't you believe it.. 1t was the gov
ernment that stirred up Strikes
Miss Bondfield then discussed the
recent industrial conference in Lon
don, in which recognition of organized
employers and organized workers was
- go ev1Ww~
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BEEF PACKERS
HUGE PROFITS
Big -Four Leads Among Nations
War Babies They Got
the Ka|e.

CHICAGO, June 19.-Some idea of
the tremendous supplies Of meat fur
nished by the packers to the govern
ment during the war is given by the
Cudahy Packing company. smallest of
the "big five' packers. in a memoir
andum submitted to the war depart
ment. The company reports that it
made in 1913. after paying interest
and taxes, practically the same rate
of net profit as in the pre-war year
1914"
Deliveries of dressed beef for the
army and navy from May, 1917,
through November, 1918, totaled
39,50S,035 pounds, which cost $780,
246.1S. OF canned meats. 10,620,O42
pounds were used the total cost of
which was $14,7S2,033.54. Bacon cost
$13,657,320, and weighed 31,44O,600
pounds. During the latter part of
the war the company furnished the
government over 100000 pounds
of bacon per week. The total value
and volume Of supplies furnished
the government amounted to $41,25O,-
600. The number of pounds of meat
sold the government was 102,709,545.
The above figures represent deliveries
which never equaled rs per cent of
the company's total production.
By way of comparison of the Cud-
ahy business with that of the other
packers, the Cudahy total sales of
1918 were $286,660.971, while sales of
Swift & Co.. for the fiscal year OF
1918 were $1,000. 100000, and those of
Armour, exclusive of business from
Argentine plants 1851, 100000.
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MINERS AGAINST
DAYLIGHT PLAN
Delegates to American Fedora
tion Of Labor Vote to Return
to Old System.

ATLANTIC CITY, N. ]. June 19.-
Disapproval Of the daylight saving
plan was voted by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor convention when
resolution was introduced asking the
federation to protest against the pro-
posed repeal by congress of the day.
light saving law.
The resolution was called up for
action Immediately under suspension
Of the rules. Timothy Healy, presi-
dent of the stationary firemen, faith
cred the resolution, introduction of
which followed the arrival CT the Day.
light Saving association who said that
unless there were quick action here
the repeal bill probably would go
through congress.
Defeat of the daylight saving idea
was accomplished mainly by the min
ers and the Ohio delegation. These
had the aid of Delegate CcCullough of
Des Moines.
At the Baltimore convention three
years ago the federation approved
daylight saving.
Arguments that weighed against it
were that employers endeavored to
exact excessive overtime because of
the additional daylight at the end of
the normal wor-day, that agricultural
workers found it oppressive and that
women were opposed to it. It also
was charged that certain industrial
interests found themselves in conflict
over the issue and that the workers
suffered as a. result.
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MOLDERs' UNION WINS.

= SYRACUSE, N. g, June 19.-The
Globe Malleable Iron and Steel COM
pany has secured an injunction
against Iron Molders' union No. 80,
and "all others. friends or associates
preventing them from picketing Or
patrolling either theapremises or pub
lie streets in the vicinity Of the works
and the use Of language tending to in
timidate cor create feeling of uncer-
tainty. The company charges that the
strikers are trying to break "the NOR
ale as the workers" Ia its employ.
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II may say to you that you need
not really fear going to Jail. I was
sentenced twice to Jail and the judge
wanted me to go. But I did not go
and the man that sentenced me is no
longer judge: -.
Pleads for Freedom.
-. I'VE want bring life to the work
ers OF the steel industry and we are
going to insist on the right of free
speech, free assembly and free press.
There is no power in the United States
than can prevent this campaign and
be the results which they may, so
long as we are on the right road, so
far as I am concerned I am willing
to go the limit with you. We will
bring about the emancipation of the
steel workers.
John Fitzpatrick of Chicago was
selected chairman of the committee
which will have charge Of the work.
Launching of the campaign will
mark resumption Of a fight in prog
ress for many years between organized
labor and steel employers.
War on anti-union steel employers
is on here in thorough going fashion.
No more complete bill of particulars in
recital of the injustices of non-union
steel mills has ever been cited in the
contest for organization in further
ance of human rights. Not only does
the indictment cover the steel industry
it takes in every industrial plant en-
ploying the company union as an in
strument of warfare in the effort to
check the tide 6f bona fide labor
organization. ~
Company Union Analyzed.
The company union is analyzed in
detail in it's effect and in its opera
ton. According to the resolution. in
troduced by request Of the national
committee organizing iron and steel
workers, the employers "ham string
such organizations and render them
useless
In addition to this resolution, the
convention today adopted resolution
No. 142, authorizing President Comp
ers to call a conference during this
convention of the heads of all in
ternational unions so that they may
| cooperate in giving assistance to the
campaign to organize steel workers.
This resolution follows:
Restitution No. 142 - BY Delegates
Henry w. Raisse, of the Lorain, Ohio,
Central Labor union, and Edward !.
Evans, of the International Brother
hood Of Electrical workers.
WHEREAS, Every labor union in
America, regardless, of it's trade or
industry, has direct and positive in
terest in the organization of the work.
ers in the iron and steel industry. be-
- AZ S%N1
task. viii greatly weaken the opposi-
ton of employers everywhere to the
extension of trade unionism and the
establishment of decent conditions of
work and wages; and
More Organizers Urged.
WHEREAS, The organizing force
now in the field working upon this
vast project is altogether inadequate
| in strength to carry on the work in
| the vigorous manner imperatively de-
!