The Connecticut labor press., 1919-09-06

2 Rochester, Sept. 5.-At a mass meet ing of union men here in Convention
 Hall, E. C. Dawson of Toledo, secre- tary, treasurer of the International Association of Machinists, forcibly pre-
 scented the economic issues of the day.
 Although Bofshevist faction attempted
 to disrupt the proceedings it was disap
 pointed and the meeting was success
 for the supporters of the American Federation of Labor. In the course of his remarks Secretary Davison said:
 T am going to make direct charge;
 I am going to go further than Brother
 Carroll went. I am going to say that the financing of this proposition of the by the manufacturers organization or association. If there is one of their speakers present who denies that state ment I believe 1 can prove what I say
 And 1 want to tell you of the agency that is being used to do that. They have employed every cut-throat private detective agency that they can get their hands on to disrupt the A. E. of l.. movement. There is operating at the present time in the city of Rochester what is known as the Sherman Detec- tive Agency, in the employment of
 whom some of these agitators of the I. w. w. are now drawing their salaries Il have just finished with a group of these people in Bridgeport, Connecticut ; and l want to tell you of some of the
 things that occurred in Bridgeport
 They started identica1ly the same thing in Bridgeport that they are attempting
 to start in Rochester. They had F, 2,000 people on the streets of Bridgeport, and packed meetings that would not allow a controversy to be even discussed with the employers.
 Il went into one concern in connec- =tion with representative of the United States Government and secured the con- cession of a 44-hour week with 1212 per cent. increase in pay. I presented it back to the men. Two of this I. w. w. group practically having the meeting packed, which they attempted this after noon with the same tactics, % of those men dehed that meeting and with big hip, hip, hooray' passed a motion to absolutely turn down every considera- stion, not even discussing the proposition that the employers and organizations had agreed to present to that body of men for their consideration. And why did they do that? Because their repre- Sentatives came in contact with the gen. erai manager of that concern and offer ed for. a consideration to settle the strike. The thing didn't work out, and he wanted his part of the change before the settlement was made. They then brought in their rough-house methods from the east side We saw men come into Bridgeport with no other motive in mind than to beat up somebody. Well, whenever the I. w. w. start that beating up program the A. F. of L. is 1 on the job. GI.m G1x coal strike; know their tactics. And | ester that the organization 1 represent is 100 per cent. American. Before we will allow the |. w. w. to Russianize | America they have got to come to a reckoning with us. There is no use mincing words with those people. They | don't understand it.. The question of ] consideration and argument is some l thing they know nothing of.
 When they drifted into Bridgeport i with their strong-arm gangs-which no i doubt they have in Rochester-they put | a crowd around the hotel was stop ping at. Men were lodging from be- hind trees. A government agent said to me- You better put gun i'll your pocket, they are going to get you. said, Never; no I. w. w. has nerve S%L oAyOON hhA@y S~N him from the back. They don't meet people face to face. ..
 T walked in the meeting of 450 men and women and made declaration stronger than am making to you, when one jumped on the platform and said, Now is our chance, we will throw him through the windows of the halP. I said, You might try that in Russia, I but you won't try it i'll America, I am not going to be foolish enough to go into meeting of 400 men in America that don't know that at least there is a maj ajority of them who believe in American ideals. An American audience that believes in American ideals can always be depended on for a square deap.
 "A short time after left Bridgeport on important business in New York