The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-06-05

house voted against 1t. It became a
law with almost unanimous ap-
proval."
! In his first reply to Governor Allen
Mr.. Gompers denied that he ever had
called strike in his life and asserted
that the passage of the Industrial
Court law was caused by the obses-
sion of Governor Allen concerning the
miners leader. Howat.
'The governor says he wants to
take away from me the divine right
| of ordering Strikes" said Mr.. Com
] pers. 1T may be interesting to the
governor to know that never have
ordered a strike, and I challenge him
or anybody else to assert the con-
trary."
who orders strikes?" called
! voice.
| "Go home and find out; take your
| special train back to Kansas." re-
torted Mr.. Gompers. /
Mr.. Gompers asserted that a large|
coal operator had told him that the
whole trouble in Kansas was that
Howat, the president of the Kansas
Miners union, had got the COVER
nor's goat" and that the statute es-
tablishing the Industrial Court had mo-
other cause.
Allen Is Vindictive.
1.-The governor has now become a
propagaandist,' Mr.. Gompers con-
tinued. "He is now going around
from his own great state, largely agri-
cultural, preaching the gospel Of this
divine law to bring peace and COM
fort and the elimination Of strikes
from oar industrial life
! 1.-THE governor says" Mr.. Gonpers
continued, that he does not come
here as a representative Of capital,
nor does he come here as a repre-
sentative OF labor, but that he repre-
sents all. I venture to call his atten-
| ton to the fact that the Kansas State
Federation of Labor adopted ty
| ing not only the Kansas Industrial
Relations law, but also in not very
nice TERMS denouncing the governor.
The coal miners of Kansas in conven-
ton adopted a resolution attacking
and denouncing the Kansas State
Law for Industrial Relations.
! Who Is Behind the Law?
THE governor has gone before sew.
|
he has also gone before bankers as
sociations and national. manufacture
ers' associations and chambers Of
| commerce. This is the first time that
he has had the pleasure, as it is mine,
to meet him, as a representative Of
labor, and with all that as an Anleri'
can citizen and part OF the great
republic of the United States.
1.-The governor has given an illus
tration here and he has said that
several times, about the law with It's
lower jaw and teeth, and the upper
jaw and teeth; you: heard that, did
you not? You know the lower jaw is
that upon which the pressure is made.
The lower jaw moves. The upper
jaw is typical of those who have
power and strength. The upper jaw
does not move; it is stationary, it
| stands pat and brushes the lower jaw.
Should Strike Be Out1awed?
II would like the governor in his
time to answer the fundamental
question, whether strikes as such
should be outlawed and made crinai-
question. If there is nothing else, I
| AoNo 4OIAA1llS W uCO1kS "Ath AAAAAA' -
men may stop work there is no quar-
rel, no dispute.
Men quarreling in front of his
window, that is all right, but the men
| Of labor who 60 out In a legitimate
strike. they are not quarreling. they
merely fold their arms and walk away
and do nothing, not even disturb the
slumber Of the governor. Stop strikes
by law; prohibit them, make them
unlawful! My friends, it was strike
OF the people, of the working people
of Germany, that prevented the reac-
ton, the military reaction, the COUP
d'etat inausurated under General
Capp to restore the old regime and
drove the government Of the republic
Of Germany out Of Berlin and estab-
1tshed itself when the workers WENT
on strike and defeated General Capp|
and his reactionaries
If there ever were to arise in thel
United States some other coup detail
it there were an attempt to establish
an oligarchy or a monarchy in the
United States, and if it We're SUGGEST
full or partially successful, if the|
workmen of Kansas would go on
strike to prevent 1t and safeguard the
| republic the governor would send
them TO jail