New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-01
Guarding Rights of Public
and Non-Union Toilers
Basis of New Workers.
Policy Adopted Here
End of Strikes
A Leading Object
Loyal Labor LegionDraws
Up Program to Stop
Strife Throughout U. S.


A new labor movement recognizing
the rights of the public and the un-
organized wage esrners and advocating
arbitration of labor disputes has been
initiated by the Loyal Labor LegiorA of
New York City, of which F. Paul A.
Vacarelli, former vice-president of the
international Longshoremen's Associa-
tion, is the head.
The innovation, according to a state
ment issued by Mr.. Vacarelli, grew out
of meeting of the Loyal Labor Legion
last Friday night, when a new constitu-
ton embodying the latest ideas on labor
was adopted. Mr.. Vacarelli attaches
great significance to the movement, in
asmuch as he asserts that 90 per cent
of the organizations membership is
composed of elected officials of American
Federation of Labor trade unions, rep
resenting a membership of more than
10000 in this city
Four clauses, in particular, of the
legion's new constitution are expected to
arouse the opposition of old-line labor
leaders.
Recognizes Public's Right
These clauses provide that hereafter
the Loyal Labor Legion recognizes:
l. The right of men and women to
work regardless of membership or non
membership in trade unions.
2. The rights of the general public as
party at interest in labor controver-
sizes
3. The necessity for laws establishing
courts of arbitration, with power to en-
force obedience to their decision.
d. The settling of differences between
employers and wage earners without
intervention by persous not personally
affected by or direct parties to the mat
ters in controversy"
The last clause appears to aim at the
elimination of professional agitators
masquerading as labor leaders"
The new constitution, says Mr.. Vaca-
rellis statement, wss submitted by q
committee appointed for that purpose
composed of Chairman Clarence Lazarus,
of the international Union of Steam and
Operating Engineers; F. P. A. Vaca-
rell, president of the Loyal Labor Lee
gion and president of the Scow Trim
mers' Union; William L. Fink, secre.
tary of the Harbor Boatmen's Union;
Patrick j. Lee, International Long
shoremen's Union; James H. Smith
Amalgamated Association of Street and
Electric Railway Employees, and Fred
erick Lawrence, chairman of the Amer
lean Peoples League.
To Notify Trade Unions
The meeting authorized the appoint
ment of Lawrence, Fink and John
Nebernburgh as a committee to inform
trade unions throughout the country of
the new principles laid down in the
constitution and to devise methods for
bringing organized labor into line for
their acceptance.
A preliminary statement Of the
legion, also given out Yesterday by Mr..
Vacarelli, reads in part:
"The Loyal Labor Legion is fully SEN
sible of the tremendous opposition that
will be aroused by its action, and is
prepared to make most aggressive
campaign against powerful influences
in the American Federation of Labor.
The legion is convinced that the ex-
tremely offensive and militant attitude
of numerous labor leaders is harmful
to the cause of labor, that oldtiine
methods must be discarded as having
outlived their usefulness, and that an
entirely new system of handling dis
putes between wage earners and en-
ployers must be practiced.
"Labor's unenviable position to-day,
with some 100000 A. F. of L. mem
bers and 100000 unorganized workers
out of employment, of whom about 500,-
600 are idle in this city, is due in large
part to the unwise leadership of men
who ran amuck and called hundreds of
strikes Immediately following the war.
When the greatest need was increased
production, reckless labor leaders en-
couraged their followers to make i'm
possible demands, compelling hundreds
of plants to suspend operations.
Labor Needs New Ideals
"Organized labor needs a new birth.
The doctrine of peace and prosperity
must displace that of rule or ruin.
New membership and new vision must
enter the A. F. of l.. from top to bot
tom, and principles and methods ae-
cepted that will bring peaceful agree
ment on reasonable bases rather than
destructive warfare for unattainable