Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-11-22
iasHOfHWILSON COMPACT ia
SEVERED ~ PRESIDENT.
Rcvcrscs Attitude
Adopted During Passage of
Adanson 8"IIoIe Law.

hasiIinston, NuS. 1t is daily be-
Gohiihs lho4e apparonI at Tic NAT
lohal CapItal tllaL the forces OF or
Sahl"cu luDor ana the AunIlu .slTutlon
i4.."c n~u 81 iaiillIs UuL Mul,n LII nno
~ TO DO reflected III tho Camp.lsn Oh
1890.
mat ,hore WAS a close alliance be
'"eeH tn~m mlI.cn ii War pups .ulc 10
littl AMY from may be pointed GU,
~ fScaliinE That i'll 1916 labor SUP
roiteu tleolucnL " IiSon as lno TO-
huil Oh his pei uniting the heads of
INC railroad Drotneruouds to noid up
INC country with stop watches and
successfully demand the Auamson law
as inc result OF nlS expressed lntcll-
Ton TO Keep the nation out OF war and
as the result of the statement made
ny tue Democratic National Cummn-
lee nat he Mas responsible tor tho
ploViSlon III the Clayton act that lab
or should no longer be considered =
commodity or article OF commerce Az
matter or fact. this last proviSion
VAS purely a hepubllcan measure, but
TABOR Swallowed the Democratic pre-
tensions, hook, line anu slnker
during the war labor WAS cuduled
ny the lresiden. ana has advisors us
never before and properly 80 bscaus.
Oh tho necessity OF the utmost sol ldar-
lily IN order to win. Samuel Gompers,
president OF the American Federation
OF Labor, was frequently initiated in
to the mysteries or the inner councils
at he White House. He and all labor
Speedet up to the limit and turned
out immense production. After tho
conflict had ended the workers were
some t:nls in returning to a normal
state of mind. The espionage law had
the effect OF u dose OF ether, and ii i,
CURED several, months to como oul
from under.> But when they were re
stored they discovered that prices
which Mr.. Wilson had been promising
since 1913 TO reduce were soaring be
You'd all reason. And so they demand
eli moro adequate return.
1t is generally believed here that
in their demands they went entire
ly too far. They had caught the glare
OF the soviet They demanded through
the Plumb plan that they DO permit
ted to take over the railroads and
threatened revolution il they were
no. In spite Of Judge Gary's admis-
sion that the common stock of the
steel Corporation pays Is per cont
and that the average wage OF the stool
worker Is $4.67 per day. they employ
cd as the secretary OF the strike com
nit &C notorious preacher of rcvo-
luton They demanded 60 per cent
increase in wages and Il SiX-hour day
IN tho coal mines and the lcafers OF
half Il million strikers held up the
balance of the population.
President Wilson me; with the ap-
prevail OF both Democrats ana Repu-
licans in letting the Plumb plan lead.
'-Ss KNOW that the nation would not
brook threats from any class any
more than 1t had brooked threats from
the HohenZollerns, and he gained fur
Their support when he denounced the
methods OF the leaders among the
miners. But it is believed here that
no went too far in his general atti-
tude OF animosity toward labor and
that his Influence in this respect has
begun 10 pormeatc tho entire Admin.
lStratlon. Az a result the resentment
OF labor is becoming keen.
When the Indus rial Conference ad
journed without action, largely be-
cause OF the men appointed Ivy the
PRESIDENT. though all that labor ask
ed there was the adoption OF the prin
ciplc OF collective bargaining cnun-
c'ated by President Taft through the
war Labor Board the cleavage YVES
widenei. Labor felt it had lost its
great and good friend at The WHIT
House On top Of this and probably
acsuated by the same influence from
ms superior in Office, Secretary OF
Labor William B. Wilson refused to
welcome he dclepatcs to the Inter
national Labor Conference of Wo
men or to hermit any one TO rcnrc
Sont him. DELEGATES had assembled
from every civilized country. inclrd-
ing thc new statos OF Poland and
Czerho-Slovakla. But the Labor Do
FaN'ment through its chief, held
aloof.