The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-26

WAS reported in tho news that labor leader himself returned soldier speaking before Bridgeport al Labor Unon denounced the enemy of labor alleging the conduct of branches of the Legion in two three distant places, which he said had assisted In break ing strikes
 The American Legion is destined a great organiza- ton It may not be the final organization of the American soldier citizens. seeking solidarity and expressing their common Hin but it will be the first to this end and the Legion will occupy an important place in American poity,
 Is there any reason why labor should assume an attitude of antagonsm to the organized Americans who fought in the great var2
 The veterans of the war number some 100000 of the flower of American manhood taken from all ranks and walks of life,
 This great multitude must pretty nearly represent all the opinions institutions religions. racial stocks, thought in America some, Repub- cans. Some are Catholics and some Protestants.
 Among those 100000 every racial stock every creed will be represented The of puocrats fought besides everybody else Some affiliated with organized labor The army constituted of the pick of the young of America and it is forum in which labor has better chance advocate principles capital possibly have the great of these young before the and are now Of the workers and have more sympathy with labor
 Tho American Legion will enroll large proportion of these former soldiers, In Bridgeport perhaps thousand enrolled is safc to say that within the year two three four thousand will be enrolled.
 Nor will labor, consulting its best interest do any thing array veterans in opposition to s cause may be taken for granted that for many years methods which do appeal 10 the patriotic beliefs millions citizen soldiers cannot be proHaby used either by labor capital
 which soldiers interered in labor troubles two classes of will doubt be discovered
  yet unorganizcd that representative body of them did not exist in that place.
 And like that in Boston, where the soldiers pre- served order Labor may take granted, citizen soldiers will for the most part be in favor of progress with order The will support that make for stable ernment
 These young but with so vast an experience un- dersand far better than the rest of America what have anarchy in the state.
 These young soldiers know that under the institutions America inc majority do what will They minority, with righteous if it be but rniTO in Ia avbiI TD1aS temper of the soldiers they going 10 demand and obtain their economic rights They going 10 make and support justice but they going violence by minorcs and they moi going substitute ton for democratic action.
 The labor leader who thus indicted the American Legion before the Central Labor Union himself soldier with splendid record gained by service est battles of inc
 As American ctizen- this gentleman has the right o express his American sentiments freely, and the great he is entitled to be heard with respect
 The American Legion in Bridgeport cannot afford to such for opponent until it has done what may show him that inc American Legion for the American people, for every and American enterprise in which will engage