Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-24
A. r. OF L. ISSUES CALL FOR
 IAN oVERTURN N CONGRESS-

Washington, May 23.-(By The A. P) The American Federation of Labor has issued it's expected call to the cleo torate for "an overturn in congress-
 Under the signature of President Samuel Gompers the current issue of the American Federationist, the official or gan carries an indictment of congress and the executive departments for in competence on the cost of living issue" and, outlining a programme of deep cutting measures" declares:
 'There must be an overturn in con- gress Enemies must be defeated |; friends must be elected
 Presenting an itemized list of cor poration profits, similar to that recently introduced in speech by Senator Cap per of Kansas, MT. Gompers declares that while twenty-one enumerated cor porations last year received profits ave- raging 435 per cent. above normal, the average cost of living increased 96 per cent. and the average union wage 55 per cent.
 The "deep cutting measures which MT. Gompers writes will be necessary "to guard the nations distributing machin- cry against assaults from the pirates of trade and commerce. follow: Immediate adjustments of wages i both in private employment and in gov ernment service to at least meet the liv. | ing costs that have outstripped incomes | by reason of this era of frenzied profit eering and gambling.
 Immediate effective action to pre- vent continued increases in the cost o 1 living.
 An end to the kind of legislation ty pified by the h-Cummins railroad law i and the Kansas court of industrial rela ( 1-rr- I.a ,f Iarr l islative repression, restriction and coer cion. Not only must there be an end [, the enactment of legislation of this char acter, but there must be a repeal of leg 1 islation already enacted.
 "The congress will do well to give i'm mediate and effective consideration t the proposal of the American labo movement that control of credit capita
 be taken from private financiers am placed in the hands of a public trust |
 be administered upon principles volun tary and cooperative in character Thi will strike a vital blow toward eliminat
 ing the abuses of profteering and ex
 ploitation.
 Congress should provide immediatel
 for full publicity for income tax re
 turns.
 There must be immediate steps to
 ward equalization of wages and cost c
 living and effective steps to prevent
 new margin from replacing the one to b
 dissolved. This means that there mus
 be a permanent remedy for the high cos
 of living"
 "The working people of the Unite
 States continues MT Gompers, "ar speaking in mandatory terms If thos
 in control of the legislative destinies (
 the country do not understand the need of the workers, at least the worker themselves understand. They know tr l restraint which they have practicet } They know the limit to their enduranc
 Their demand to be heard is a deman
 which comprehends the welfare of u 3 country"
 ) President Wilson proposed measure . for relief, MT. Gompers writes. "but col gress gave no heed" and since the sigl = ing of the armistice, the American D,
 litical and industrial Bourbons have la
 a course of plunder, restriction and e r ercion."
 e The recent unsanctioned strike of raj way men MT. Gompers characterizes "a symptom of what is the matter vii l America" Their methods he deplores e foredoomed to failure and in contrave
 tion of the discipline of the trades unic movement, but, he argues, their appea 3 for relief from increased living GU I were of long standing and that they su = fered ''postponement after postpon t ment."