The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1921-12-16
CAUSES ARE ALIKE,
THE A. I. OF L. AND THE AMERICAN LEGION ARE
ORGANIZED FOR THE SAME PURPOSE,
SAYS MAJOR GEORGE BERRY
Their Aspirations Are Identical and Stand for the Con
servation of the Republic of the
United States

Kansas City, Mo.-The address of
George L. Berry, President of the In
ternational Printing Pressmen and
Assistants Union, representative of
the American Federation of Labor at
the recent convention of the Ameri-
can Legion in this city made pro-
found impression and continues to be
the subject of favorable comment.
Mr.. Berry was elected vice-com-
mander of the Legion at the conven-
ton here.
while the purposes of organization
of the American Federation of Labor
and the American Legion are not the
same in all respects, yet fundamentals
ly the aspirations of the two organi-
cations are identical" said Mr.. Berry
in his address to the Legion conven-
ton.
AS the spokesman for the Ameri
can Federation of Labor to the Legion
convention Mr.. Berry pointed out the
identity of aims and interests in part
as follows:
1T is not to be expected that in
these two great American organiza-
tions-the Legion and the Federation
We shall be completely immune
from ponsible persons. Neither
organization can boast of a state of
perfection because there is no such
organization of human beings in ex-
istence, but it can be held by both
organizations, in my judgment, that
there are a sufficient number Of fight
| ing men and women in both organiza-
ticns to overcome the traducers from
within or from without and to hold
aloft the standards off justice. 1t is
my Judgment not only as the presi-
dent of an international trades union,
but as a member of the American Le-
giQn from the date of its birth in
France, that there is enough good in
the American Federation of Labor
and the American Legion to attract
and to hold in membership every cit
izen of our republic elegible to be-
come member of these two great or
carnations.
1T is to be expected that the Amer
lean Federation of Labor should be
the subject of greater variety of at
tacks and criticisms than that to
which the American Legion may be
Esubiected. The reason for this is OBJ
vious since the American Federation
Of Labor, in addition to being legis-
lative organization, is made up solely
of international Unions that are
fundamentally economic in character
and by the very nature of things the
discussion of moneys, of the division
of profits, or the determination of the
industrial rights of men, are always
points controversial in character
THE American Trades Union
movement has stood from the first,
and it has had no occasion to change
its attitude, for collective bargaining
arrived at by Cancellation or by arbi-
tration The principle of collective
bargaining contemplates that the
rights of those in controversy shall
be safeguarded, that the facts with
respect to the conduct of industry
shall determine the points of contro-
versy, and that the joint interests of
all of the units of industry shall be
protected in that there shall be no
stoppage of the wheels of progress
and productivity upon which all of
the units are dependent.
''The American Trades Union move