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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Did Our Soldiers Fight for
One Flag or Many?

abroad to fight we're thinking primarily
Of their own country. They knew that
if Germany was victorious over her
European enemies she would soon or
late turn ner attention to this country.
Some of them were probably think
ing about humanity as a whole. In
either case, what they were bent upon
was the prevention of another war like
this one.
eve think, also, that the Presidents
minor premise is correct. The league
of nations may not be the only way of
making peace durable, but it is the
most practicable instrument yet de-
vised to that end. 1t is now the league
Of nations or nothing.
"1f his premises are correct his con-
clusion that the league must be formed
and that America must interpose no
objection to its formation is, of course,
sound"
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"A MANUFACTURERS an d
MI union labor leaders all
a over the United States

union labor leaders all
over the United States
are said to be watching
with interest and sympathy the ex-
pertinent in industrial democracy
which is now being conducted in
five cities - Fort Wayne, Ind.
Shelton, Conn; Cleveland, Ohio;
Paterson, N. j., and Brooklyn, N.
Y.-and which, it is believed by
some Of them, will scotch, if it does
not prevent, Bolshevism in industrial
centres where it is put into effect.
The originator Of the plan, John
Leitch, an efficiency engineer,
started it among 800 employees of a
Fort Wayne piano factory. It's
basis was the Constitution Of the
United States. The factory was
administered by a senate, a house
OF representatives and a cabinet
corresponding to the aids and ad
visers of the President. It's success
is said to have been immediate and
permanent. Yale University, the
National Council of Defence and
the National Association Of Manu-
facturers are said to be a few of
the bodies that are investigating
the merits Of the plan.
B. Edmund David, head of a silk
manufacturing corporation in Pat
erson, N. j., who was instrumental
in introducing the system in his
factory in that city about a year
ago, expressed recently the keenest
satisfaction at the results attained
and said he hoped, Ultimately, to
establish similar working conditions
in four other of his mills in York
Reading, Scranton and Beavertown
Penn. The Paterson manufacturer.
however, said the new system
should not be considered "pana-
cea" or adaptable to all kinds and
sizes OF industrial establishments.
ats outstanding feature" said
Mr.. David, lis the unprudvinu
Ssc0Enthon< On Nhe>part OF tho en-.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

one representative for every twenty
workers. The house meets weekly
on company time. Much of the
legislative work is done by COM
mlttees appointed by the presidents
OF the senate and house.
There is review board to which
a discharged worker may appeal his
case and a board Of appeals giving
each worker an opportunity for the
redress of grievances, real or fan
cied, at the hands of department
head"
Every two weeks "dividend" is
paid to each worker who has scored
a certain number of points in eff
cheney, economy, punctuality and
regularity of work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
r. HE Reds broke out again Mon
Z day night in a new attempt to
terrorize America. Bombs

day night in a new attempt to
terrorize America Bombs
were planted in eight cities,
and two men and one woman were
killed, but all Of the intended victims
escaped. The list of outrages follows:
Home Of Attorney General A. Mitchell
Palmer, in Washington, badly dam
aged by explosion, which killed one
man, believed to have been a Red
who was planting the dynamite. Mr..
Palmer and family in home, but I'M
injured.
Home Of Judge Charles c. Mott, ir., ISL
East Sixty-frst Street, wrecked. One
man, identified as William Bochner.
private Waterman, who evidently
tried to seize bomb, blown to pieces.
Bombs thrown from motor car in
Philadelphia into rectory of Church
of Our Lady Of Victory and home Of
Louis Jagielky, a jewellcr. Woman
injured
Six Pittsburgh homes wrecked by two
internal machines. One house dam
aged was that Of Federal Judge w. P.
Thompson.
Powerful bomb exploded on second floor
Of homo Of Judge Albert F. Hayden,
in Boston. Judge Hayden recently
sentenced more than one hundred
May Day rioters
In Newtonvillc, Mass, bomb placed
against side Of house Of Representa-
tive Leland w. PowcrA who recently
advocated anti-Rcd law in Nassau
(, chuset
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

the home Of Attorney General Palmer
in Washington had been learned.
The police of this city are searching
for two women who were seen sitting
on the steps of Judge Motifs home
just before the explosion.
Inspector Faurot, of the bomb squad,
connects the present outrages with
the May Day bomb plot 1t is his
theory that the conspirators, failing
in their attempts through the mails,
have resorted to more direct action.
The Senate adopted the Susan B. An
thony suffrage amendment by a vote
of 56 to 25. Before it becomes eff
fective the amendment must now be
ratified by the legislatures Of thirty
six states. If this is to be done be-
fore 1921 special sessions of MANY
state legislatures will be required "a
the law making bodies of only few
of the states will meet next year.
The sutfragists say they will begin
campaign for extra sessions and i'm
mediate ratification.
Senator'S Lodge, of Massachusetts,. and
Borah, of Idaho, told the Senate that
complete copies of the peace treaty
are in the hands Of several New
York financiers. At least four COM
plcte copies of the treaty are said to
be in this country Senator Hitch
cock, of Nebraska, ranking Demo-
cratic member of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, introduced a
resolution in the Senate providing
Tor an Investigation of how copies of
inc treaty were secured by private
,drtaravk~s
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

But, argues "The Baltimore Sum-"
what we think or what "any group
or combination of tay-at-homes"
thinks, is of secondary Importance.
The important question is: What
do the men who actually fought
think is, practically speaking, the
primary thing? Of" the writer
says, "they are unitedly for the
league of nations, then the Senate
of the United States will ratify the
covenant, no matter what individual
Senators may say or do
Are they? 1t will be hard to as
certain, yet this paper is sure that
"some way must be found" Per-
haps, it suggests, "the recently
formed legion may be utilized for
this purpose. If the fighting men
vote aye, the estimable gentlemen
who inhabit the Upper House at
Washington will likewise cast their
votes in the affirmative"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Five inquiries into war expenditures
are planned by the House of Repre-
sentatives. The inquiries will be
into expenditures for aviation, ord
nance, camps and environments,
quartcrmaster supplies and expen-
ditures in foreign countries.
The Supreme Court sustained the
right Of the government to fix rail-
road and telegraph and telephone
rates under the war powers conferred
by Congress.
Postmaster General Burleson orderod
the telegraph and telephone lines
returned to their owners Thursday
night, and five minutes after he
learned of the order S. j. Konen-
kamp, international president of the
Commercial Telcgraphers' Union.
ordered general strike Of teleg
raphers in Florida, Alabama.
Georgia, South Carolina, North Caro-
lima, Mississippi, West Virginia, Ken
lucky, Tennessee and Louisiana.
Llghty-three men were killed and fifty
others manned and injured by the
explosion of seven kegs of black
powder in the Baltimore tunnel of
the Delaware and Hudson Coal Com
pany in Wilkes-Barre, Penn.
Frank A. Nanderlip resigned as presi-
dent of the National City Bank and
James A. Stillman was elected to sue
coed him.
Columbia University resumed the COM
mencement exercises omitted last
year. and 1925 degrees we're CON
ferred on students Of the institu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Week at Home

In Paterson, home Of Max Gold, silk
manufacturer, dynamited.
In Cleveland home of Mayor Harry l..
Davis, who suppressed May Day riot,
wrecked by bomb explosion.
Thousands of Department of Justice
agents, the Federal Secret Service
and the police Of the country united
IN search for the anarchist con-
spirators. Nineteen arrests were
made on Tuesday in various cities.
among those arrested being John
Johnson, an official of the Pittsburgh
|. W. w. organization, from whom the
police gained information that led to
the belief that the bomb plot had
been Matched in New York in the
headquarters of the Russian Reds, at
1873 East Fifteenth Street.
It was said in Washington that Will
liam J. Flynn, who is directing the
investigation for the Department of
Justice, believed the Headquarters
of the conspirators to be in New
York and would make this city the
starting point of his search.
The Pittsburgh police also arrested
E. ]. McGurty, who is suspected Of
aiding IN the manufacture or placing
of the bombs in Pittsburgh. Detcc-
tives said McGurty proudly admitted
being member of the |. w. W.
Captain Philip J. Barry, head Of the
Department Of Justice agents in Chi
cngo, said he believed the plot had
been hatched in that city. Phila-
delphia reported that tho name of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Con,pers

On Gompers personally it Is not
expected that there will be any at
, tack. The radicals would like to
displace. him if they could. They
doubt the possibility of doing so.
Therefore, as in recent conventions,
they will centre their efforts in at
tempts 20 reject the things that
Gompers stands for and if possible
tie his hands by putting through
definite declarations for things not
favored by the majority represented
by Gompers and of whom Gompers is
the symbol.
Not all Of the fighting, however,
is likely to be made by the radical
element The so-called conservatives
plan to do little of it themselves.
Before they are through it is quite
possible that some legislation will
be enacted that will definitely fix
the position of those radicals who
without warrant or other symbol Of
authority of the federation have in
the past elected to speak for the
federation.
The principal scheme which the
radicals bring to the convention is
the so-called Seattle plan for reor-
ganizing the federation. Briefly, this
calls for the organization of the fed
GRAFTON on industrial rather than
trade lines, provides for the substi-
tuition of twelve large unions for
the one hundred and twenty that
now make up the federation and
is but one step removed from the
lone big union" idea of the ultra
radicals. Next to that is the plan
for an American labor party.
The Seattle programme is the
child of those who conducted the re-
cent general strike fasco in that city.
1t has been in the making for nearly
year, in which time an immense
amount of money has been spent for
propaganda purposes.
The plan is best outlined in the
circular letter sent to all of the
unions in the country three months
ago from the Central Labor Council
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Another Contest Between
Radicals and Gompers

the welfare Of other unionists e. j.
same plant! VIC
PROPOSITION NO. s: IN 80,
favorable action upon Proposition "
! shall the plans worked on. in ~.
conference be submitted to our ny
bership for ratification together ~,
any further suggestion from tn. .os
ference calculated to facilitate .As =.
Grafton of the proposed plans. and :.
no way conflicting with them. Ava
further be it
"RESOLVED, That all local un;.,.
in this community, having the ah;st~
be requested to communicate with ~,
local unions of their own crafts. M.
ing favorable action upon these ro,s
lutions, sufficient copies of which vii,
be furnished by this council. .na
further be it
RESOLVED, That each Cent,.,
Labor Council within the Jurisdiction
of the American Federation of Jaho-
be earnestly requested to duplicate II =
action Of this council in its own v,c;,l
ity.
Respectfully submitted,
SEATTLE CENTRAL LABOR I
COUNCIL, !
tSeal) Secretary. +
Central labor councils can assfss
very materially in bringing about these
necessary improvements In our orran;.
cation by first indorsing them and
then urging (by means Of communities
ton or a committee) that all local
unions within their jurisdiction indorse
them and request their respective in
ternationals to submit the propositions
to referendum of the membership.
Local unions can assist by immedi.
ately taking whatever action their con-
stitutions provide to have their inter.
nationals submit the propositions to Z
referendum of their entire member.
ship.
'Internationals can assist by prompt
ly submitting these propositions to q
referendum when called upon to do 90,
and in every way possible facilitating
matters in order that an expression
from the rank and file may be secured
at the earliest possible date, and by
so doing they will merit the deep ap-
probation of the membership.
Additional copies of this leaflet may
be secured by addressing James A.
Duncan, secretary, Central Labor Coun-
ell, Labor Temple, Seattle, Washing
ton"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Real Weakness

Other projects which will have
the support of the radical element
will be the demand that nation
wide strike, or, rather, a series OF
strikes, be declared in July to force
the freedom of Thomas j. Mooney
and his pal, Warren Billings.
1t is likely also that the conven-
ton will be called upon to indorse
mo beer no work" resolution.
On the peace treaty it is expected
that a wide range of opinion will
develop. The position Of the fed
Grafton on this will be outlined IN
the report of the executive council,
which will include in its exhibits the
reports of the delegates sent to tie
international labor conference IN
Paris.
The programme calls for two
weeks session. In other years the
work of the convention was done
in the second week, the first beng
devoted in the main to entertain
ments of one sort or ano.herS with
the more important leaders, other
than those whose presence was abso-
lutely necessary, remaining away
the first week, only handful OF
delegates attending the early ses-
sions. Now all this is changed.
With the radicals alert to seize any
opportunity that may be opened
most Of the delegates will De IN
their seats at every session and the
consron&iax, mill 10 .saol xroric.. 4
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

1.-THE Providence Journal" con-
sidering this address, thinks it
would be "plainly absurd" to sup
pose that the A. E. F. went into
battle "self-consecrated to the four
teenth point" This paper questions
the propriety, "as a matter Of good
TASTE" of making "this solemn hour
the occasion Of spexh boosting
the league of nations plan" But the
language is more forceful when the
subject of the league itself is taken
up. We read
''ls it not an insult to the intell!-
gcnce-is it not monstrous--to assert,
as Mr.. Wilson in effect does, that this
strange thing, the so-called covenant of
the league of nations, has been hal
lowed by the blood Of our soldiers ?"
"The Chicago Tribune" agrees.
IF Mr.. Wilson had ever served at
the front in war he would not have
said that our soldiers died for a
cause not strictly their own, but for
the cause of humanity and man
kind" 1t is not true, this paper
points out, that soldiers are less
altruistic than civilians. Indeed,
in the constant presence Of death
they reach a spiritual development
that the civilians perhaps do not
attain. But
"to believe in humanity and to choke
to death in poison gas or to die of
agonizing wounds for it are different.
Different to q degree that Mr.. Wilson
has never been in position to np-
preciate. The American infantry did
not charge through the German bar
rage to create mandatory in Armenia.
The artillery did not serve its guns
to the death in lethal gases to obtain
self determination for Fiume. The
trains did not pass over roads con-
stantly torn by shell fire, or tho
engineers bridge rivers in the face
of the enemy for any or all Of the
nations Of Europe. Our soldiers fought
and gave their lives for their own
country for their America that it
might live
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08


Of the American Federation
Of Labor. With the excep-
ton Of that convention in Buffalo
in November Of 1917, when Samuel
Gompers stood with his back to the
wall and the call went out far and
wide for all who might bring an
atom of strength to defeat the plot
of the pacifsts and pro-Germans
to line up American labor against
the war and for a negotiated peace,
it is the most important convention
in the history of the federation.
AS at Buffalo, the fight this year
is between the so-called radicals and
those who believe in the Gompers
policy of making haste slowly, with
Gompers in the centre of the fight
In the radical lineup are all who
were counted upon to swing the tide
against Gompers in Buffalo, plus
a few new figures who have come
to the front in Seattle, in Butte and
other far Western centres. On the
Gompers side will be found the
forces which stood by him in Buffalo
as they have stood with him in his
thirty years fight with radicalism
under one name or another. With
the Gompers forces there will be
new figures, and quite possibly some
few who in the past have been on
the other side.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

death would be his portion with VIC
tory, and that peace would last only
ten years, he would have given his
life just as willingly. To poetize his
simple and natural patriotism, to rep
resent it as a manner of international
ism, is to gild gratuitously facts that
are in themselves sufficiently glorious.
Few who have dealt intimately with
enlisted men of the army and navy,
sharing their hardships and admirine
their pluck and clearheadedness will
admit as plausible this mortuary
museum Of plaster saints which Presi-
dent Wilson is at such pains to erect.
For the league Of nations there should
be arguments, without sentiment
alizing and denaturlng that sacrifice
which our boys made so simply. From
their wide-strewn graves they ask
nothing of us but to honor them for
what they did and for what they were"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Right Next Door, in Fact.

Is call the attention
the that Winnipeg considerably States
than Red Russa?-Chcago Eueaing POST
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
The Supreme Proof

Sergeant Alvin York, who killed regiment
less has further proved his herosm by declining
and deciding preacher the
Baltimore American.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Wayside Points of
Vie1U
One More

One More
NRESIDENT WILSON'S Memorial Day speech remarkable
addition remarkably large number of remarkable Wilson
-"- addresses.-Arkansas Gazette.
Urgent!
Most reasonable citizens will with Attorney Palmer
that the time has kind detective
Service work of the Observation-Disclosures Public Ledger.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
And Most Timely

Thoughtful of Texas begin poung oil
atlantic hrs will need large QuanticsNew Evening
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
Ghosts

The Yale riots said to have misunderstanding
That from abandoning Greek
NeaO York EVening
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08
n MEMORIAL DAY at Su-
resnes, France, our Presi-
dent delivered an address

~ n MEMORIAL DAY at Su-
resnes, France, our Presi-
~ dent delivered an address
which has met with rather
conflicting reactions in this country
He pictured the American soldiers
as crusaders, fighting not primarily
for their country, but for great
ideal which embraced the whole well
fare of human society. We find
THE Indianapolis News" declaring
that
"the President paid beautiful tribute
to the American soldiers who died in
the great war. 1t is true, as the
speaker said, that they did not die
simply that victory might be won, but
for a cause. Their like said Mr..
Wilson, has not been seen since the
far days of the crusades' since never
before have men crossed the seas to
fight for a cause Of humanity which
they did not pretend was particularly
their own, but they knew was the
cause Of humanity and mankind"
Selfish Domination
At one point in MS speech the
President said:
"These men did not come across the
sea merely to defeat Germany and her
associated powers in the war. They
came to defeat forever the things for
which the Central Powers stood, the
sort of POWER they meant to assert in
the world, the arrogant, selfish domi
nation which they meant to establish;
end they came, moreover, to see to it
tina. there should never be war like
this again"
And indeed, thinks the paper just
quoted
There has been q disposition to mar
row the Issues for which we were sup
posed to have fought, md this is very
unfortunate, Those who recall the
days of April. 1917, will remember that
there was great moral impulse that
sllIItu lUc HeIIlS Oh ull lueII. we iii
felt called to defeat monstrous
wrong and to uphold the right. We
warred against a system, a philosophy
and a government that we believed to
be, and had denounced as criminal.
we can not limit or lower the is
sues fo- which our men fought without
dishono1ing them. they were indeed
crusaders They fought for cleanness,
truth, justice, righteousness, for wom-
en- and little children--in short, for
civilization. 1t is we'll that we should
have been reminded Of all this on
Memorial Day by the President of the
United States,'
= But objection is encountered
when one turns to THE Baltimore
Sun"-objection depending upon the
Implication" that unless the league
of nations is formed all the sacri-
fees of these so-called CRUSADERS"
will have been in vain. The writer
admits that, in his opinion, the Pres
ident's major premise is correct:
Some OF the Americans who went
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Amusement Trades,
Building Trades,
Clothing and Textile Trades,
Culinary and Provision Trades,
Marine and Transport Workers,
Metal Trades,
Mine Workers,
Postal and Federal Office Employees,
Printing Trades,
Railway Workers,
Telegraph and Telephone Workers,
Timber Workers.
Allowing local unions to retain thei,
present status and at the same time
permitting them to act as a group unit
dealing with an international unit, thus
greatly adding to our organizations eff
ticiency and very materially reducing
overhead expenses.
MOTE: 1t is suggested that in case
of favorable action the international
financial secretary should be one of the
delegates.
PROPOSITION NO 2: In case OF
favorable action upon Proposition No. i
snail your delegates be instructed tc
work out a plan, at said conference
for the interchange or transfer of care
without cost into any local union b,
any member of another union qualified
by experience and ability to work IN.
der the jurisdiction of the union into
which he or she may seek admission?
PROPOSITION NO 8: In case al
favorable action upon Proposition No
l shall Your delegates be instructed t.
work out benefit plan which shall
be just and equitable to all organiza.
lions based upon the length of time the
beneficiary has held continuous mem.
bership in the American Federation
of Labor rather than the period OF
membership in any particular Graf:
union?
PROPOSITION NO. 4: Shall this
organization use its best influence tc
encourage the making of blanket agree.
ments to cover all crafts in a given
plant, endeavoring to secure uniformity
of wages according to skill, and dis.
courage local unions entering into in
dividual agreements without regard TO,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

Mrs Percy " Pennypaker of Texas threw monkey
into the machinery Of the Democratic National meeting
Chicago Wednesday, said "the
bunder when failed to adopt the suffrage
amendment and the should York Herald
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-06-08

By John ]. Leary, Jr.
. O-MORROW in Atlantic City
begins the annual convention
Of the American Federation
Of Labor. With the excep-