Norwich bulletin., 1919-08-27
GoMPERs TELLS OF
 TRADES LABOR CONGRESS

New York. Aug. as.-Declining to dis cuss current labor problems in detail oh the ground that he had not had timo enough to familiarize himself with them during his absence abroad, sam ucl Gompers, president of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. who arrived here from France on tho transport George Washington today. said that he wished to make plain that he did not come home to interfere with the pro- gram of labor, but to help my fellow laborers."
 Mir. Gompcrs. who has been attend ing the sessions of the International Trades Union congress at Amsterdam, have not yet learned that the time is past when they are the complete mon- archs of all they survey"
 Certainly" he added. men and women who work must have a voice in determining conditions under which they shall give their labor"
 Questioned by reporters, the labor leader begged to be excused from com on the merits of the railroad shop mems demands, the actors strike, the Plumb plan for the nationalization of railroads and the proposed steel work CTS strike. on the ground that he had not time to study them. He admitted, however, that urgent telegrams from Washington, whose source he would not divulge, prompted him to hasten HIS TeluTH nome Dy dI least a week.
 Referring to the actors strike, he said he would like to be a magician to roll the two sides together" which was interpreted as meaning that he hoped to see harmony restored be- tween the actors and the managers.
 Mir. Gompers spoke encouragingly of the work of the Amsterdam congress and said he was convinced Bolshevism was on the wane, because the leaders had not fulfilled any of the promises ny which they forced themselves into power.
 Calling attention to remark made before he went away that the Ger mans, though beaten. were unrepent- ant. the labor chieftain declared that while he had not talked with German delegates to the congress any more than was absolutely necessary. there had been presented to him ample evil dence that the Germans ''are still un- repentant and boastful and that Prus- sian domination is uppermost in their minds. He said he told one German delegate that Germany had not yet learned the lessons of the war and that Deutschland Uber Alles don't go any more"
 Mir. Gompers said that he must be in Washington Thursday and for that reason he did not expect to attend the state convention of the American Fed era ton of Labor at Syracuse.
 Tonight Mir Gompers issued a pre- pared statement on the progress of labor" at the International Trades Cn- ion congress convention. in which he said that the congress flor the first time approximates the democratic con- ception of genuine internationalism'
 The new organization is already something more than a mere frame work MT. G0mpers said. Tt has all l ready taken a firm and unmistaka ble 1 attitude on what is perhaps the gray i est problem of this critical hour-is organized labor to be inveigled into the revolutionary movements that have | been showing their heads in every country of Europe as result of the 1 Ear?"
 Alluding to the overwhelming defeat by the congress of a resolution calling ! for organ nized labor's support of soviet l resolutions. Mir. Gompers continued:
 ''fhe defeat of this proposition means the definite and final repudia- tion by the organized labor of Europe and America not only of BoIshevisn but of the whole effort to involve La bor unions in international revolu-