Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-06-09
LABOR DEN0UNCES B0LSHEv|SM IN ITS
 ANNUAL REPORT
U. s. Government and Con greSs Also Are Criti-
 ciZed

Montreal, Que, June 8.-Denuncia- tion of bolshevism, profiteering, the action of the United States govern ment in invoking the food control law the failure of the American congress to take action to control the cost of living are among the outstanding fea- lures of the annual report of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor presented today to the annual convention here.
 With the councils review of or ganized labor's position and activi- ties for the last year, was also pre- sented Ca specific program for rem edy."
 The Cummings railroad law was denounced, as was the Kansas law establishing the court of industrial relations. The high cost of living was laid largely at the door of "big profiteers" while the report declar- ed the United States government. principally thru the department of justice, "has conducted a campaign of stupidity"
 Congress was assailed for cutting appropriations designed to carry on the work of the collateral branches of the department of labor and for va rious proposals, such as the sedition biil which the report says the labor movement was instrumental in de- feating.
 In it's references to the foreign field, the report denounced what it characterized as propaganda for American intervention in Mexico and declared that the executive council sees "no justification for interfer- ence," which it argues would be in the interest "of the exploitation of it's workers, and it's boundless wealth of oil and minerals"
 He United States Steel corpora tion was assailed for it's refusal to deal with labor organizations in the recent unsuccessful strike, and the authorities of Boston also were de- nounced for their attitude in the celebrated strike of policemen in that city.
 Against Big Union.
 The workmen of Canada were con- graduated for defeating "the one big union" idea and their stand was as Ca magnificent tri- umph for trade unionism. and vim aication of the purposes, policies and achievements of the American Feder- ation of Labor" m
 The industrial conferences called by President Wilson were character zed as unsuccessful because "the employers stubbornly resisted every attempt at cancellation" and would lot accept any resolution on collect ve bargaining" unless it was so yordeds as to be anti-trade union in Spirit and to provide encouragement md support for company unions." The machinery proposed by the sec ,nd conference, the report attacks, IS in many respects actually peni- 'ious" and it declares that "the ma hinerv designed by the presidents | commission is entirely out of contact , with the life for which it was design . d and entirely unfitted for the needs z f that life"
 Existing machinery the report de- { lares "is superior in every respect"
 As program of Specific remedy" or existing conditions the councils erort proposes the following:
 "We demand that the government c e authorized to buy standard com { lodltleS direct from producers and { hat these commodities be distribut- { d through regular retail channels at
 retail price to be fixed by the ' overnment. eve demand that this power be [ nade use of as corrective for rofiteering and we call attention to 1e fact that the government has ! established precedent for such ac- t on in it's sales of surplus war sup t lies. { "We demand that the federal gov 2 through the internal revenue ' apartment ascertain tn amount of war profits extorted from Q le American people during the years e }16, 1917. 1918. 1919 and 1920, and t lat these excessive war profits be V ken through it's taxing power bv o le federal government and applied N
 the extinguishment of the floating t ,bt of the government and to the lrtial retirement of liberty bonds atl e IT in order that the existing inflat- structure of currency and credit O