The Connecticut labor news. (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925, 1921-04-08
HEAD OF MILITIA
BUREAU ATTACKS
ORGANIZED LABOR
Protest Being Made to President
Harding Against Maj
Gen. Carter.

Mai. Gen. ]. Mel. Carter, chief of
the Militia Bureau, deliberately mlSrep-
resents the facts when he states, as he
does in his annual report, that one reason
he has failed to recruit and organize a
new National Guard is the usual antag-
onism of labor unions in many localities
toward the organization of the National
Guard
This was the statement recently by
Marvin Gates Sperry, national president
of the Private Soldiers and Sailors
Legion, who declared that his organlza-
ton, many thousands of members OF
which belong to labor unions, intend to
complain to President Harding, SeCre-
tary of War Weeks, and Congressional
leaders concerning the attack made upon
labor by General Carter in his annual
report.
Not content with knocking union la
Dor in his report, which is Carriers
method of passing the buck to cover
up his own failure as head Of the Militia
Bureau to organize a new National
Guard Carriers assistant, Col. ohm w.
Heavey, in a recent article in a military
magazine, the Infantry Journal for Feb
ruary, which is owned and controlled by
the infantry officers of the army, attacks
union labor even more viciously than
Carter, and evidently with Carriers ap-
prevail" continued President Sperry.
"Heavey says in his article, The at
titude of labor toward the organization
of the National Guard has grown more
antagoniStic, due to the spread of Boil
Sheviki ideas throughout this country,
and more to the same effect.
This statement is a falsehood. Ev-
erybody who knows anything about unior
labor in the United States knows that il
is the most vigorous foe of bolshevisn
and sovietism and all its works. Heavey
is trying to bolster up Carriers attacks
on lflion' labor. He as well as Carter are
responsible for the failure of the Militia
Bureau, under Carriers management, tc
organize the new National Guard. Car
ter and Heavey have made a complete
hash of the Militia Bureau. Did Garter
or Heavey serve in France when the
union laboring man in the ranks was
winning the battles of the United State:
there? They did not. They spent their
time with the typewriter brigade in the
United States.
Garter also says that another reason
he has failed in managing the Militia
Bureau is because the National GuarC
officers who were Disseminated against
by the regulars i'll France are hostile
to organization of new National Guard
He asserts there was no discrimination
Both statements are falsehoods. The
National Guard veterans ardently desire
a great new National Guard, and every
body knows that many of the guard
officers were not only Disseminated
against in France but some were actually
bounded out of the army.
Garter will soon have to get out OF
the Militia Bureau but l believe he has
arranged things SO that his successor will
enable the 'LeavenWorth clique and Car
ter to still keep their paws on the Militia
Bureau, instead of the bureau being
turned over to the management of the
National Guard, as provided in the last
army reorganization act"
President Sperry, who is a member
of the Railroad Brotherhoods, declared
that his veteran and labor organizations
intend to ask the congressional military
committees at the next session to inves-
tigate Carriers statements about union
labor and the veteran National Guard
officers, as we'll as his management of the
Militia Bureau