Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1919-11-29

living conditions or increasing wag-
es there is no purpose in this bill,
and there is no authority in 1t, to
Sprevent it,"
If Mr.. Lever is correctly quoted,
did he tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth?" Was the
bill amended after he made his state
mcnt? The logical deduction is that
these men are not playing fair. The
report continues:
After telephone communication
with Secretary of Labor Wilson on
August Mr.. Gompers declared he
dictated memoranda to his secretary
III which he said Secretary Wilson
told him after u conversation with
tho President that the President de
clarcd tho enforcement Of the bill
would depend upon tho District At
tornoys and that instructions would
"a forward from the Attorney Gcner
ais Office for them not to bring cas-
'es against working men in contrary
ention Of the provisions of the Clay
ton law. A proposed amendment should
DC passed as separate law, the Pres
lcent is reported to have said.
The socallcd Department of JUS
'lcc was to have the District Attor-
neys Instructed not to prosecute Der
sons guilty Of violating the law, if
those persons happened to be I'M
der the control Of men of the Hon.
Samuel Gompers' type. The more
one reads Of this kind of double deal
ms, the more one feels disgusted.
That Mr.. Gompcrs is "mad clean
through is plainly evident, when
III his exposures, he does not spare
his great and good friend, President
Woodrow Wilson, the DISTINGUISHED
occupant of the White House
AIR. Gompcrs is now mo friend to
Caesar"
The report concludes:
Il asked the Secretary whether we
could count upon the assistance OF
the president in furihcrance of such
blll, Mr.. Gompcrss memoranda
continued. Gle said that the Prcsl-
dent would assist. Secretary Wilson
then asked me whether | would HELM
,ed.
move any obstacle in the way of the
enactment Of The Food Administration
Bill and / said l would"
Mr.. Gompcrs said he was told by
Attorney General Gregory that orders
would be sent District Attorneys nor
to construe the act as interfering
with the normal activities of Labor.
He continues:
The telephone talks between Sec
rotary Of Labor Wilson and me were
corroborated effectively August Sth,
when Senator Hustng with whom
the Secretary had conyersed had told
or the statement made by the latter.
Senator Husting's statement later in
the Senate August 8, also clinches
the fact that the President of the
United States was quoted correctly
when the claim was made that he had
Endorsed the statement of Attorney
General Gregory by saying:
That, after all prosecution under
the Dill when it becomes law will
depend upon the District Attorneys
and that instructions could 20 for
ward and would, from the Attorney
Generals office to the various Dis.
trict Attorney instructing them not
to bring cases against workmen in
contraVention to the provisions Of
the Clayton law"
Are these disclosures true? Who
will deny them? If they are true,
who had tho authority to suspend the
law in it's exercise upon one class OF
people and to enforce the law against
another class Of people?
Has the President of the Unit.
cd States tho legal right to
do this much less the Attorney Gen
eral Of the United States7 But per-