Evening star., 1921-06-17
AT. OF |. PROTESTS
JAPANESE INFLUX
Demands Congress Take Ac-
tion to Curb immigration
From Orient.
By the Associated Press.


DENVER. Col. June 17.-Demand
that Congress take action to protect
the, nations interest against the
growing menace of japanese immigra-
tion and colonization" is made in a res
olution submitted today to the annual
convention of the American Federation
of Labor.
The declaration. submitted by NJ. NJ.
council, has the approval of the Japa-
'ouhcii. ha sthe approval of the Japa-
nese Exclusion League of California.
Los Angeles Anti-Asiatic Association
and the Japanese Exclusion League of
washington, various patriotic, civic
and fraternal organizations on the
coast.
Labor organizations declare that the
resolution is the most drastic mea sure
on the Japanese question ever consid-
ereo by organized labor. Ii calls for:
Drastic Provisions.
Absolute exclusion in future of all
japanese immigration. not only male.
but female, and. not only labor.rs
skilled and unskilled, but farmers and
men of small trades and professions,
as represented by Theodore Roosevelt.
Permission for temporary residence is
to be given only to tourists, students.
artists, commercial men, teachers and
others.
Three cities have already begun
campaigns TO get the 1922 convention
of the federation. They are Fort
Worth. Tex; Cincinnati. Ohio, and
Birmingham, Ala.
The executive council of the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor has finally
and completely repudiat@d the Inter
national Federation of Trade Unions
as it is now conducted.
This announcement was made last
night at the convention headquarters
~f
made public copy of a letter sent Ia
the secretariat of the European trade
union movement at Amsterdam.
Mr.. Gompers' Reputation.
President Gompers' letter said:
your letter in connection with this
portion of the discussion is particu-
larry offensive and is resented 1t is
! moreover clumsy effort to make il
appear that the American Federation
of Labor is supporter of reaction
and of war.
IAN example of this is found in
your statement that we must candid
ly confess that we fail to understand
how ii is possible for you. as demo-
Gratis. to set yourselves in opposition
to the struggle against reaction This
is a statement that might well come
from the plutocratic. selfish interests
allied against the workers. but that
can be considered as no less than in
of an organization presumably rep
resenting trade unions. addressed to
a bona fide organization of trade
unionists.
The American Federation of Labor
does not need to defend its progress
slve record. 1t does not need to pro-
claim here its unending struggle against
autocracy and greed. Those who op-
! pose labor and those who make even
pretense at being informed under
| stand those things fully.
! Your manifesto was not misunder-
| stood. Its full Implication was thor
| ouEhly comprehended and il was pre-
cisely because such was the case that
our opposition to it was so firmly
, stated
The convention adopted resolution
| calling for A congressional investi-
cation into conditions in the cotton mills
| of the south.
Every aSSistace was pledged by the
| federation to united textile workers
now conducting strike of more than
1900 workers in these mills.