Arizona republican., 1921-06-15
BRITISH LABOR ASKS ID KEEP HANDS OFF IRISH QUESTION
Warns Workers of America
 Resolutions Will Not Help Question And May
 Disrupt Labor Movement

DENVER COLO June is.-or- gsnized labor of Germany could have prevented the world war. President Samuel Gompcrs declared in an ad- dress today before the annual con vention Of the American Federation of Labor.
 T hold that the organized labor movement Of Germany failed at the critical hour said the veteran labor leader in responding 10 the address es of frsternal delegates from Great Britain and Canada
 Tt is true he continued. -that if the labor movement of that cnun- try had taken the situation in hand ff might have meant the destruction Of a few thousand. it might harr caused the Incarceration Of many thousands but ff that had occurre1s tf would have stopped the war.
 The failure of men to act when tl1c time has arrived when action is es- sentiai is faithieE.nees 10 the com mon cause | have nothing in my heart that can be intimsted or suE-
 gested Of feelings Of antipathv to-
 wards German people toward sh. German labor movement toward
 their attempt to conduct a great republican form Of government ir | cannot be driven out Of the minds \ Of peoples who have io<t young men i of their flesh and blood. fallen in \ the defense of this great common ! cause to maintain some de<ree of a
 self-defermfnztfon in a dcnocrafIc form Of government
 You know that the American la-
 bor movement has made its great
 contribution to the great cause. And
 s< one you also know that | have
 tried to do my full duty in the crtti- cal circumstAncer in which we nrn
 all piaced- and the fact that af tho peace table wisdom did not prevail think that most men uho have given the subject thought quite a<rea with that 1udgment- But it is Hf- ways hindsixht that fs % superinr - to foresight and in the frame uf
 mind In which the people were in It ] is Rot difficult to understand sha, . they wanted 10 penziizc Germany Vi q some way
 We know that the rrprcsrntativr. c Of democracy make nlEtHkcA and s that is the penalty we pay for hsxsr Q democrscier- but we have frf |. right 10 make a mistake rather thzr
 10 yield fo the dicfafion of snue eu1
 peror. Kaiser CT King 1T wc uar'
 democracy we must pay fhe persai.
 ties for the mistakes democraric'
 are subject to-
 Nr. comper- said that he assumed
 fun responsibility for hts remarks rr, | gardinx the German labor rncvcmem' and that mo one has been consuifrt
 about them. either az being in ru-
 mind or as my expression - We have been associated with Ei - of the allied. democratic nations if f the war said Nr. Compcrs. ad. Q dressing the frsternai delegates. -anf e to tho extent Of time that VIC were ir ,f lf we made our full contribution. w ' have not done anything which VI - find ft necessary 10 boast of and rrs ,. have no cause to hang our heads ir . shame.
 The pity Of 1t ali was when fh,
 crucial time came there were som !, of those who had made rambo, an . declarations who failed al the cru = rial hour.-
 {. In his address which was a res.
 ponse 10 those Of frafcrnal delegate
 from Great Hritian and Canada. Er
 Gompers dweit upon the attitude c the delegation and himrelf both dur v ing the war and since. during th' is period of reconstruction .- w. r. Bush. fraternal delegate reT- " resentinE the Canadian trades anl lt labor congress told the asscmbies D. delegates that despite difficulties CT oi Esnized labor in Canada was at leas m holding its own He reviewed tih
 incipiencv of the -One Big Union re movement and predicted tits earl. o- death
 Id A resolution was adopted by th 1e convention urging congress to pas Id immediately the Johnson bill provll r. ing for a federal investigation int ld conditions in the MinEo county xfriis ts zone In West Virginia
 ts President Gompcrs' remarks cam
 at the end of one Of the most irn a. rortant convention sessions in hie nt tory-marked by oratory of interna se tional character delivered by fratcr be nal delegates from Great Britain an
 Canada trades uniop movements as After reviewing the iutcrnafiCua
 problems confronting organized labc