Arizona republican., 1920-06-16
LABOR REFUSES
 ID APPROVE 1T RUSSIAN SOVIE I
A m eri an Federation Adopts Resolution Op- posing Action-Fina So- viet Rule Autocratic and Militaristic

MONTREAL June I5.-A movement to call upon the United States to rec Ognize the soviet government or lift olockades against soviet Russia was blocked in the annual conventiorS ot the American Federation of Labor to- day after a heated debate.
 James \. Duncan of the Seattle Cen rrai Labor council led the fisht in be half of the soviet with the aid of rep resentatiVeS of the Ladies Garment Workers. but the convention adopted by an overwhelming vote the report ot the resolutions committee opposing any action.
 The committee report declared the federation would not be justified i'll taking any action that might be con- srrUed as an assistance to or approval of the soviet government so long ;is it is based upon authority which has not been vested in Il bN popular national representative assembly of the Russian people, or so long as it endeavors tu create revolutions i'll well established civilized nations of the world. or so long as it advocates and applies nlili- tarization to labor and prevents the organization of and functioning ot trades unions and maintenance of free speech. free press and free public as semblies."
 Find Soviet Autocratic and Militaristic
 John Frey. chairman Of the resolu- tions committee. said it had ascer- tained on the highest authority that the soviet government is an auto. cratic, militaristic government thai does not believe in democracy" and is ruling by the iron hand of the dicta- tOrship' Extracts from Lenine $ speeches. which he read, showed. Nr Frey declared, that Lenine believed Tn making trades unions subservient to the soviet government and labor com pulsory.
 Opposition to the report, he said might indicate that tine holsheviki had infested the ranks of organized labor in America with it's propaganda
 Mir Duncan said the committee had made ''camouflage report to deceive the workers of the country as to the true situation in Russia. Conditions fhere were much better than reported in this country, he said. and added that President Wilson and Premier Lloyd George approved recognition oI the soviet government, put had not the courage of their convictions tc stand up and declare for it-
 Warn Of Danger in Radical Pictters
 James Duncan Of Washington, D. C., first vice president of the federation answered in defense Of the committee report He read q telegram from Sec retary of State Colby which said the existing government did not "represeni the will or consent Of any considerable i' proportion of. the Russian people
 David Grange. d New York delegate said the greatest trouble in America was the bolsheVist plotters who ar' irving to disrupt organized labor.
 T don't care what President Wilsol or Lloyd George have approved h said ',but l do know we have a goo' enough form of government here il America for me and [ am rot going | take any chance with Trotzky an Icnines bolsheviki crowd. They ar not any more the friend of labor tha was the ear.
 The convention took no action on demand by Abraham Greenstein, st del egafe of the jeweIy workers, that
 send an investigating committee { learn the true facts in Russia. Tn American press and news agencies, D .nlisreprcsentfng the facts, he sai' ..,vere responsible for the present si1 nation Of Russia.