Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-06-18
No SYM f6lHY
WITH SOVIET
GOVERNMENT;
No MOONEY
STRIKE
Amid Great Uproar and Bitter
0ratory Sanity Easily Wins
Against Extremists in Fed
GRAFTON Convention.
IRISH REPUBLIC is
GIVEN APPROVAL
Opinion That Labor Should
Take Stand for American
ism Wins; Law Should Take
Its Course in Courts.

tsY MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIREl
Atlantic City, n. j.. June 17.--Amid
general uproar delegates attending
the convention here of the American
Federation of Labor today refused
to endorse recognition of soviet Rus
sia, although urging recognition by
the United States of the existing
irish republic" and voted against the
general strike proposed for July In
behalf of Tom Mooney, convicted
in connection with the preparedness
day bomb explosion in san Francisco,
Discussion OF Bolshevism developed
when the resolutions committee re-
ported resolution asking with
drawal from Russia of American sol
diers, but refused to report others de-
manding recognition Of soviet Russia
and lifting of the blockade of Russian
ports. The committee refused to en-
dorse recognition of the soviet or any
other form of government in Russia
until the people of that country by
constituent or other forms of ma
tional assembly shall have established
a truly democratic form of govern
ment,
The debate was said by veteran
labor leaders to have been the most
bitter they ever heard. 1t followed
rejection by the convention over the
strenuous protest of the radical
group, of a proposal to change Amerl-
can Labor day from the first Monday
in September to May / "as bond of
affection to unite all the world of
labor into universal brotherhood"
Samuel Gompers, president of the
federation, led the fight against the
No, Il 1tttt ton fttNer 1Df
American Labor day was "a day for
American labor" and not political
event" as it was in Europe.
Peter Bollenbacher of the Pennsyl-
vania State Federation of Labor, pro-
! tested against rejection of his reso-
| luton, which called for the lifting of
! the Russian blockade, declaring ne
had offered it ION humanitarian
| grounds to bring about relief of
women and children.
| In response to further arguments
| by radical delegates, Mr.. Frey de-
| clared the soviet question had been
brought to American and into trade
| union meetings and that he and the
other members of the committee were
of the opinion that the convention
| 81 Guild declare in no uncertain terms
! lust where organized labor in Amer
| lea stood
The introduction of the Mooney
resolution brought another uproar c.
| r. Grow of Los Angeles, opposing the
| resolution, declared he had talked to
| Mooney three weeks ago and that
Mooney was hopeful that the strike
I would be carried out, as he was con-
| fident it would result in his release.
| Chairman Frey retorted that in his
u nf ~ fl1nt. hns &
| of the committee, strike not only
would prove injurious to the Mooney
cause. but would "drive a wedge into
organized labor"
| Julius Deutell Baum of the Detroit
Central Labor union then gained the
! floor and delivered an impassoned
address.
William r. Patterson of San Fran
! cisco, a member of the carpenters
union and a member of the Mooney
| defense league, was then given the
| floor by n vote of the convention, and
launched into a vigorous attack on
organized labor and it's leaders in
San Francisco
"Out in San Francisco the union
leaders did not go to the bat for
| Mooney, so we had to form COM
mittee to do IT," he said. "They wen.
about whispering that Mooney actual
| ly was guilty.
Maybe we made some mistakes,
but we make no apologies for what
we have done"
/ Delegate Murphy of the San Fran
cisco labor council said it was true
some labor leaders In San Francisco
| thought it best to let the law take its
( course in the Mooney case
| Chairman Frey then declared: I'm
| formation has come to the resolution
committee that money contributed by
trade unionists in America was used
to paw the expenses Of delegates to
! the Chicago meeting in behalf of
/ Mooney" and that representatives Of
the Mooney defense league, whose
salaries and expenses were being de-
| frayed by trade union money, had
used their opportunities to attack
| the American Federation of Labor
and to carry on a propaganda for its
destruction"
/ James Duncan Of Seattle was boot
ed, and cries of put him out" were
raised when he declared that Pres!-
dent Wilson's INQUIRY into the Moonev
| case was an international matter,
based on inquiries from Russia and
that the Mooney defense league put
into operation the machinery in Rus
sia which resulted In the inquiry about
Mooney being made"