Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-06-14
Cabinet Member Urges A. F. of l.. Against Nation Wide
 Strike.
HAS CONFIDENCE
 IN LABOR UNIONS
Resolution Requesting Recognition of Soviet Government in Rus sia Is Presented by Wes-
 tern Delegates.

Atlantic City, N J., June 13- Secretary of Labor, Wilson speaking before the convention of the Ameri- i can Federation of Labor today, urged organized labor to refuse to support the nation wide strike which has been i proposed as protest against the con- vlctlon of Thomas J. Mooney. Mir. Wilson told the delegates that the government was Investigating the claim that new evidence justified a new trial and that he himself was de- voting muct time to the case. The secretary declared that so far the governments inquiry had shown that the judge and pury before whom Mooney was tried had conducted them selves properly and that on the evi- dence the jury had to convict He admitted new evidence might develop which would alter the situation.
 But" he continued, flor organized labor to participate in such a strike as is proposed would simply mean that labor was trying Mooney, without the benefit of evidence. Very few of us are familiar with all the evidence, yet every working man is asked to make himself a juror. Justice cannot be obtained in that way.'
 Condemns BOlshevism.
 Secretary Wilson then turned his attention to bolshevism and was hear tily cheered when he asserted that no element of American labor would stand for bolshevism for moment when the true meaning of the move ment was understood
 Closely allied to the work of the Industrial Workers of the World, dur ing the past year." he said, there has been more or less bolshevism agita- tion in the United States which has not been to any great extent manifest among the real wage workers of the country, but which has existed princi- pally among the parlor coal. diggers of our country.
 "We have no fear of a political revolution in the United States. It may be possible that these parlorites may be misguiding a sufficient num- her of the laboring people to cause local disturbances that will be annoy ing but no one in the ranks of labor will stand for bolshevism for min ute when he knows what bolshevism itself stands for.
 "The workers of this county, the laborers who have fought and strug- gled for all these centuries, take the stand that every person who has to obey the laws of the country ought to have voice to determine what those laws should be and, having fought through all the centuries for the ac- complishmbent of that ideal, having accomplished it for themselves, then the American is not anxious to inn pose the same kind of disenfranchise- ment upon other portions of the people that he had fought being imposed upon himself"
 Urges Soviet Recognition.
 Resolutions urging recognition of the Soviet government of Russia and the lifting of the blockade against that part of the country under it's control, were among 200 submitted by delegates attending the convention of the American Federation of Lat(or here, texts of which were made pub lie today Publication of the resolu- ton concerning Soviet Russia aroused intence interest among the delegates and was more discussed than and other Indications were that when it comes up for discussion of the floor it is likely to precipitate a bitter con- trOversy.
 The resolution, which was adopted by the Seattle organization, calls upon congress immediately to order troops out of Russia and recognize the Soviet government, and would require the American Federation of Labor to con- duct a ballot of all local unions of | the recognition of the bolsheviki. The result it is declared, would serve as a guide to the condct of all labor officials and unionists generally"