Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-13
PO|NDExTER DECLARES
new REGIME IS SOUGHT
Senator Charges Leaders Seek to Set
Up Government Within a
Government"
FARMERS NATIONS BULwARll
ASSERTS Political Movement Is But
an Autocracy Designing to Impose
Will Upon Entire Nation by
Strikes and Starvation.
fBy Associated Press1

UTICA. .N. Y. Feb. 1o-Charses that
behind tho announced plan OF the
American Federation OF Labor to OBJ
tain the election OF a Congress and a
President favorable to it's policies ex-
listed sinister movement of small
coterie Of labor leaders who have
grown powerful by the contributions
they have levied upon labor to set up
a government within government"
were made here tonight bv United
states Senator Miles Poindexter. Of
Washington, in an address before the
Utica Republican Club.
The farmers and laborinC men of
America" ho asserted. have in everv
crisis been the great bulwark OF our
low .he mistaken leadership which
would place tho government under
tn, the despotic control Of government
ment within the government is not
ruled by labor. but is an autocracv
OF 4 few leaders who would not only
impose their will upon labor Itself.
but would extend it. not only by the
ballot but by strikes and starvation
of the entire people OF the United
States. 1t is as obnoxious as the i'm
visible government against which the
people protested in 1912.
demands Use OF Ballot.
There is no question of the right of
the American Federation OF Labor TO
secure control OF Congress and of the
presidency by way OF the ballot box.
II 1t can do SO in accordance with tho
would be an evil day for the United
States: and most of all for labor it.
self. if any class in this nation. whether
employers or employees In industry
capital or labor. should succeed in any
such program: but that is one of tho
the price of free rec sovs2nment. eGn ",ns' race as
''Mr. Gompers curses Congress-" he
Sontnnned, put !s not 3specifc .:.in his
noapeement STATS they as an sss
srlsysnssf srne 8, sf asSs was .snaetsd Ih1s
institutions OF the country arc mem
aaced. but the only specific reference
is,,do is 10 the ne proposed antistrIke legis-
nortation of tho nation on which the
iivcs OF the people depend is not one
Oh our free Institutions
oppose Labor Tribunal.
The officials of the American Fed.
| Grafton OF Labor oppose not only thc
antistrike legislation, but oppose tho
ccstanlishment OF government tribunal
dustrial disputes. The Dosition of Mr..
Gompcrs is that these questions must
DC DC ieft ,,, TO the labor unions themselves
industries. This would seem TO prel
Sent SW due clearly tho issue Of government
by coercion. To claim the right nr
any private organization to Law an
food and other essentials of p'k lie is to to
claim the right OF private and civil
war by one class in the community
against the community Itself
Dor. as the foundation Of our in
dnssfiai aus siia structure. is entitled to every
8 side d y, ration-at ii. the hands OF the gov GOV
eminent. and in general It has re-
reived reaG biiY Trch h, consideration. The rail-
$er2i provisions for profit sharing and
other benefits for labor These wnre
ooposed and stricken out at II, ire
stanee Of the officials Of the American @ n,
reservation of Labor. presumably hn.
cause Il would tend TO lessen The cor
'ro' OF these leaders over labor.
Right to Enforce Demard,
The American Federation OF Iabor
tn tne senator senator declared. Claims the right
SSon,roi Sonds 81 Of tranaportation out Of the
sSntrnl coy tns Gi9fnS,tfltutio1 and assume such
submitted to the ballots Of the farrp 70
ciassns crs amd oh,cial labor itself. and to all
GI,asses In OF american people, who in III
ciared ar ana,Ssia ,here must n decide ~ no de-
constitution will be preserved"