The Connecticut labor news. (New Haven, Conn.) 1921-1925, 1921-01-21
Labor Problems to
Be Taken Up by
Ciuic Federation
National Body at Coming New
York Conference to Plan
Assistance in Stopping Bolshe-
vism and Other Dangers
lective Bargaining to Be Up
held.

Outstanding industrial problems, with
which the American people are con-
fronted today, from both the national
and the international viewpoints, will be
discussed at the 21st annual meeting of
the National Civic Federation to be held
a. Hotel Astor, New York City, Feb
ruary IA, Is and 10, 1921.
Many things have happened during
the past year to encourage those who
have resisted the shallow sentimental
ism that is clamoring for the establish
ment of new social order and the
scrapping of everything that is. There
is the Socialist party clamor that was
laid on the shelf in the November cleo
tions. Instead of Debs doubling his
vote, it was the electorate that doubled,
leaving Debs tied to the 0912) post.
Also it was heartening to all friends of
orderly progress to see the so-called
Farmer and Labor party peter OUT so
completely. Then there were the fall
ure of the Reds to capture the great
railway labor organizations through out
law strikes directed from Moscow ;
the failure of the Bolshevists to cap
ture the Offices of the United Mine
Workers of America in the recent cleo
ton of that organization; the clear-cut
position taken by the American FED
Grafton of Labor against the recognition
of that impossible thing called Soviet
Russia; and the house-cleaning by the
A. F. of L. affiliated organizations, in
which the 1. w. W., One Big Union
and other Bolshevist agents were sum-
marily elected from all conventions.
But We are not yet out of the woods.
If the United States were entirely $50
lated from the rest of the world, short
sl,rift could be made of Bolshevism and
ali of its appendages. But, there's the
rub" Recently the headlines over
cablegram from London in a morning
paper read:
European Radical Labor Chiefs
Plan to Invade American
international Federation Will
Seek to Overthrow the Gompers
OrganizationV
The cablegram consisted of an inter
view with the secretary OF the Inter
national Federation of Trade Unions IN
which he stated that ''the international
will not only ignore Gompers in the
future but will begin an educational
campaign in the American labor move
ment over his head as we'll as outside
of his jurisdiction In the future we
will look to some other channels
through which to get in touch with
American workers as to what the In
ternational really is and what it Is
doing"
The reason for the threatened in
vasion of the United States is that the
American Federation of Labor refused
to Join with the international labor
groups in their attempts to throttle all
governments that would not yield to
their ultimatum in the interest of Boil
shevist Russia. Among the demands
made upon their own governments,
which the American Federation of La
Dor was asked to endorse and to pre-
sent to its government, were:
Not train carrying munitions must
be worked not ship laden with war
materials must be allowed to leave har-
Dor; not single soldier must be trans
ported. If necessary, mass action shall
be taken by means of general strike.
The production of war materials must
cease in all countries. Today it must,
of its own accord and within its own
ranks find the power to preserve the
world from terror and ann1h1lat1on.
(Co,+;,,oJ ~, Fifth paue