The Coconino sun., 1921-01-07
|ANTI-C -COMPERS- PRO-LABORINC MAN

WASHINGTON. = "Mr. Gompers and his clique at Washington are bus fly engaged in spreading the report
 that there is widespread campaign directed against the welfare of the
 workingman," declares the Republi-
 can Publicity association, through its
 president, Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr.
 "They interpret the attacks that have
 been leveled against themselves from
 many sourcs as assaults on adequate
 wages, proper working conditions, and
 the rights of labor in general. Jeal-
 Ous of their own power, they insist
 that they, and they alone, are the
 only true friends of the laboring man, and that only through them can the welfare of the wage earner be con-
 served. The truth is that the Comp CTS ring is the evil genius of the labor movement. Without public approval that movement or any other cannot hope for success, and, if once success ful, cannot remain so if that approval is forfeited. Yet Mr. Gompers makes no effort to win the good will of the people. On the contrary, he openly faunts it and relies on the strike with all it's attendant suffering to coerce the public into compliance with his policies. Every time he has given his support to measures whose primary object was to reduce the people, through privations, to point where they would accept dictation by the la bor chieftains he has forfeited the good opinion of the public until at the present time there is determined re- action against his policies, and cor responding loss of prestige by labor itself.
 "The cause of labor received body blow when MT. Gompers heartily ap- plauded the Boston police when they left their posts of duty and turned the city over to the forces of evil. The welfare of the wage earner received another staggering setback when the efforts of the coal miners to freeze the nation into compliance with their demands received unreserved endorse ment from Mir. Gompers. The ranks of labor were again sent reeling when Gompers selected the notorious an- archist, w. z. Foster, to organize the steel workers and lead them in strike intended to paralyze one of the country's key industries. MT. Comp CTS did all in his power to force this country into membership in the league of nations, to elect congress subser- vient to his dictation rather than mindful of the public welfare, to buy the railroads with the money of all the people and operate them by and for small privileged class. The list might be continued, showing how at every turn Mir. Gompers and the other leaders who have been his abettors have contributed to the alienation of public opinion.
 Not many years ago the laboring man was oppressed by interruptions of capital. In his efforts to free himself from that oppression he appealed to the people. The right eousness of his cause was recognized at once and the remedy was speedy and complete. He sought to attain his equal place in society and it was giv- en him. Infiamed by the power placed in their hands by the added prestige of labor, MT. Gompers and his satel- lites have sought to use it as club to force from the people complete con- trol over their welfare and their gov rnment. No longer the true repre- sentatives of labor, they have sought in the name of labor to make them- selves national dictators. The pres ent revulsion against their efforts prophecies the defeat of their plans, but the cause of labor itself will go to destruction with them unless the baleful influence of Mir. Gompers and his friends is shaken of before it is too late.
 'The result of the elections shows that the scheme of Mir. Gompers to exploit the interests of labor for self has been penetrated by the voters of all classes of society, and that tn workers are fully con- vinced that their future welfare should be entrusted to other hands. There is campaign on foot to clear the sin ews of industry from the Gompers blight, but it is no part of that cam paign to deny to any class of our citi- zens the rights given them by the
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