The Connecticut labor press., 1919-12-20
WAR DECLARED AGAINST EFFORT
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Efficiency in industry was said to be necessary but could be success fully gained only when Increased produc- tivity will be used for service and not alone for profit" This deciaration was then made:
 "Wage-earners aspire to be some thing more than numbers on the books of an industrial plant, something more than attendants of machine, some thing more than cogs in an industrial and operated for profit alone. The workers insist upon being masters of themselves.
 Labor understands fully that pow erful interests today are determined to achieve reaction in industry if possible. The yseek to disband or cripple the or panizations of workers. They seek to reduce wages and thus lower the stand ard of living They seek to keep free from restriction their power to mani pulate and fix prices. They seek to destroy the democratic impulse of the workers which is bred into their move ment by the democracy ot the Amer ican Republic.
 "Only in high-wage countries do the people enjoy high standards Ot hv1ng. Low-wage countries present the least degree of productivity and offer to the1r people only low standards of hVlng and restricted liberties. Autocracy always insists upon restricting the income ana the activities of workers.
 As the government has not worked out a constructive railroad policy the conference urged that the transporta- ton lines be retained for at least two
 hot thOrO11Oh test may be made of governmental op- eration under normal activities.
 Government by injunction was severe 1v condemned. The conference sad:
 Because we have reverence for law because we believe that every citizen must be a guardian of the heritage gwen rs bv our fathers who fought for and established freedom and democracy, by every lawful means we must resist the establishment of a practice that would destroy the very spirit Ot freedom ana democracy. Our protest aga1nSt the abuse of the writ of injunction and It's unwarranted application to labor III the exercise of labor's normal activities to realize 1audable aspirations is duty we owe to ourselves and to posterlty.
 The Cummins and other ant1-str1ke bills before Congress were condemned as un-American, vicious and establish- ing by legislation involuntary servltude, the conference adding:
 Legislation which proposes to make strikes unlawful or to compel the wage earners to submit their grievances or as pirations to courts or to governmental agencies, is an invasion of the rights of the wage-earners and when enforced makes for industrial serfdOm or Slav- cry"
 Bolshevism and I. w. W.ism were scathingly scored. It was pointed out that the danger from the teachings of these anti-American beliefs were great menace to the labor movement and should be suppressed whrever an at tempt was made to interject them. William Dobson, secretary of the Brick layers, Stonemasons and Plasterers' International Union, declared that he intended to run every bolsheviat out of that organization. George l.. Berry, president of the Printing Pressmen's and Assistants Union, made the same statement.
 Short shrift was made of reso1u- ton indorsing the formation of na- tiona1 labor party. Though there was no second to the resolution the intro ducer made speech i'll its favor and then President Gompers ruled it out of OrQer. NO SenCHleIlC OI ally hllIu dp- peared in favor of an independent labor | party. The declaration of the "Workers' Bill of Rights" concludes:
 "We cali upon all to join with us in combating the forces of autocracy, in 1 dustria1 and political, and in the sub lime task of ridding the world of the power of those who but debases its pro- cesses and corrupt its functions.
 "In all struggles for justice and hu- man freedom, sacrifices have been made. Having made supreme sacrifices to crush militarism and political autocracy in Europe, Americas workers will not surrender to political and industrial at home. In the struggle now before us, we will contest every effort made to fasten tyranny and injustice upon the people of our Republic We are confident that freedom, justice and the opportunity for a better day and a higher life shall be achieved"
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