The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-22
BOL LSHEVIKI PLAN BIC LABOR WAR
 IN NEW YORK

New York, April 22-wfth New York as their base, and relying on the radical labor organizations of the East Side for support, the Bolshevik sympathizers, who have been fighting the United Textile Workers m I.a,wr- once, Mass, for several weeks. now propose to launch a general cam paign, having for its object the dis ruption of the American Federation of Labor.
 According to information which has come to officers of the federation in New York, the program calls for the organization of rival unions. more particularly in the clothing and tex tile trades, wherever the existing unions do not go far enough to please the uitra-ra dica1 element.
 The leaders in the movement. ac- cording to information which will be laid before the executive council of the federatio at it's next meeting, are the Rev. Cedric Long and the Rev. A J. Cedric, clergymen without charges, who, with Ime Kaplan. are said to have been concerned in the Lawrence trouble. Frank Morrison, secretary of the federation, said yes terday that this meeting will be held t.
 The decision of the Lawrence lead CTS, where eighty per cent of the workers are opposed to the methods being used, to come to New York, follows the gradual collapse of that movement. and the offer of a wider field in this city, for their peculiar methods of treating industrial ot S lions. Mrs. Glendower Evans. an aged Boston woman, who Is said to have helped the Lawrence trouble, is ex- pected to assist in the w6rk, which will have the passive, if not active. support of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union.
 This organization. which has been fighting the American Federation of Labor since it's inception, has been the cause of friction between the larger body and the United Hebrew Trades. which has figured at recent conventions of the federation. IL has backed all movements calculated to weaken the federation. The present move is particularly directed against the United Textile Workers.
 According to the information reaching federation leaders in this city, the decision to abandon Lawr- ence as a field of operations synchro- nizes with falling off in contribution for the support of that strike and the decision of the Massachusetts authort- ties to ask for the deportation of many of the local leaders.
 Nearly all of these are aliens. who obtained exemption from the draft by claiming to be citizens of Russia or Italy.
 The Massachusetts State Board of Arbitration is expected to recommend deportation following the conclusion of the inquiry begun early last week. This inquiry shows that the prepon- derating majority of the workers in that city are satisfied with the exist ing conditions. and are content to fol- low the advice of the United Textile Workers and wait until the mills have plenty of work before demanding any increase in wages. With the mills on a thirty-six-hour basis, and some idle, these, led by John Golden, declare discussion of wage increases is a waste of time.
 ''The so-caIIed aliens" he says, "are for the most part anxious to do what is right The threats of knives and dynamite bombs hold many of them out Gradually they are get ting to the point where they brave even these. the more so as their funds are depleted and they must work or draw upon their savings for support This they will not do.
 Were 1t not for the money provid- ed by Mrs. Evans and some funds New York radicals are providing, the thing would have collapsed, weeks ago. AS 1t is, it is breaking down, and this, coupled with the promise of wider opportunities for their class of work in New York, has led to the decision of the so-called leaders to gradually withdraw from Lawrence for the time being at least.
 ''The whole thing is part of the general movement of those who syn- pathize with the Bolshevik movement to smash. if possible, and, if not, limit the usefulness of the American Federation of Labor. In this the en- tire secessionist labor movement has joined. The best they can hope for is to make a little trouble here and there"