New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
German Labor
Caused the War.
Coinpers Saws
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the military in Ireland. President Com
pers stopped further debate.
In answering Timothy Healy, of New
York. one of the leaders of the Irish
sympathizers, Mr.. Thomas said that
"rnilitarism may go on to doom sday, hut
it will not solve the Irish problem"
At another point in his address Mr..
Thomas said:
"No nation to-day can lock itself up
in watertight compartment and iso-
late itself from the rest of the world
and prosper"
Disarmament, Mr Thomas declared,
''is the only panacea sor the worlds
His"
''The only triumph and justification,
ne said, ''for the lives sacrificed in the
great World War Will be the knowl
edge that they have died that war may
be Impossible in the future"
Speaking of the international prob
lems of the nations of the world, Mr..
Thomas said:
There is no difference to-day in
any part OF the world with regard to
the problems with which we are con-
fronted and conlp PEELED TO face. The
only difference is difference of de-
gree, and we to-day in America. in
Great Britain, France, in all the Cen
tral Powers, are suffering the inevita-
BILE price of having lived a riotous life
for six years. a nation pays the same
price as an individual. If nature is
abused nature will exact her price"
The world is not suffering from
overproduction, the British labor lead
er asserted replying to reported argu-
ments that workers do as little work
as possible if they want to increase
their chances for employment,
If you were suffering from over
production" he continued, Everybody
would have boots. clothes and COM
forts. Overproduction could be pos
ments are adequately met. But, as a
matter of cold hard fact, the world was
never so poverty ridden as it is at this
moment.
"Your goods are more required at
this moment than they ever were.
There are more men and women boot
less, more without clothes than ever
in the history of the world, and over
production is not the cause. It is under
consumption that we are suffering from
and not overproduction."
Success Of the British coal miners
strike was predicted by Mr.. Thomas,
who declared that the miners had gone
on strike without a brass copper in
their fund"
''They are still standing unbroken," !"
| he added, emo man going back, no
| seabs imported | hope it will soon be
settled and settled honorably, but
whenever it is settled you may take
I it from me that it will be a settle
ment recognized. signed and accepted
by the recognized miners trade
| union"
The peace treaty, which he said was
designed "to make Germany pay" gave
/ France 100000 tons Of German coal
/ up one morning in England and discov-
! cred that the mines which were taken
/ over during the war and controlled
/ by the government were losing
I "a 100000 a month"
The speaker denied press reports
which, he said, were due TO the ''imagi
nation of your American press that
| he had come here to preach interna
I tiona ism, TO preach Bolshevism tt
/ square private deal with Lloyc
| George with regard to the coal situa
! LloH3 ana among OtHeF slAS, was mere
| in order to render the position of youl
President more difficult because of some
imaginary opposition l was supposed
/ to have against him"
Referring again to the framing o.
/ the peace treaty, MIR. Thomas said the
net result Of it was that it wasn't Ger
many paying, it was the French and th'
| British miner who paid.
W. f. Bush, fraternal delegate repre-
senting the Canadian Trades and Labo,
Congress, told the assembled delegate!
that, despite difficulties, organized
labor in Canada was at least holding it,
own. He reviewed the incipiency Of th'
Zone Big Union" movement and pre-
dicted "its early death"
A resolution was adopted by the con
| vention urging Congress to pass imme
diately the Johnson bill providing fo'
& Federal investigation into condition
in the Mingo County, ". Va, strik'