The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1922-06-08
GoMpERs CHANGES HIS TUNE


The biennial drive Of the Demo
cratic politicians connected with the
American Federation of Labor. most
conspicuous of whom is Samuel
Gompers, is now Officially" on
A proclamation has gone forth from
the headquarters OF the American
Federation Of Labor In Washington
for all organized labor to line up
against the Republican party and
the election OF a Republican Con
gress. As heretofore. this Demo-
cratic movement is carried on under
the prestense Of its being non-parti-
san.
Every two years early in the cam
paign. whether II be the congress
sional campaign or that for Presi-
dent. Mr. Gompers call together his
Democratic associates in the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor and an
nounces they are going TO conduct a
non partisan campaign strictly in
the interest of the labor movement.
The so-called non-partisan labor
movement always turns out to be "a
strictly partisan Democratic move
ment The only place where non
partisanship and labor appear in the
movement Is on the literature. II
would be difficult to find a more
thorough going, uncompromising
Democrat than Samuel Gompers,
who is always head and front OF
these biennial movements.
The proclamation which he and
his Democratic associates in the
American Federation of Labor have
just issued attacking the Republican
party will certainly excite smiles in
the agricultural sections of the
United States The appeal attempts
to line up the farmers with Mr.
Gompers' crowd. II sheds tears
when It describes the farmers with
their backs to the wall pleading
with Congress to do something to
save them from bankruptcy"
Those who had the good fortune
to attend the Agricultural Confer
ence held in Washington at the in
stance of President Harding will re-
call that at that conference Mr.
Gompers accused the farmers of
rolling in wealth, of having fat
bank accounts and belonging to the
leisure class. They Will also recall
that Mr.. Gompers, as is usual with
him, lost his temper and became
very caustic in his comments when
he found that he could not bring
the conference around to his views
in regard to fictitious wage levels
and ridiculously short working days.
Those who were at the conference
as well as the reading public, will
recall that after the conference ad-
journed Mr.. 'Gompers issued dia-
tribe attacking the conference, al
leging IL was packed by Secretary of
Agriculture Wallace and the whole
thing was scheme to iljure or
ganized labor. Mr.. Gompers' appeal
at this hour for the farmers of tho
country to join with his Democratic
labor politicians and elect a Demo-
cratic Congress will fall far short
OF the mark.
Neither will this Democratic cam
paign document OF Mr.. Gompers ap-
peal to the working classes of the
country, either I'm or outside of
unions. The charge that this Con-
gress and this administration have
done nothing for the working man
will not bear analysis. For Mr..
Gompers and HIS associates to
charge that there has been no con
structive legislation by this Congress
which has worked TO the benefit o.
the laboring man is so bald a mis-
representation of facts that II car
ries its own refutation. What irri-
tates Mr. Gompers and his Demo
cratic associates who have launched
their drive upon the Republican ad-
ministration and are laying their
plans 10 prevent If possible, the
| election Of a Republican Congress is
not the lack. as they charge, of
remedial legislation OF a real con-
, struNive nature" What incites
their outbreak Is not the failure
OF this Republican administration
and Republican Congress to improve
the industrial situation but their re
fuse to treat the industrial situation
purely as a class problem.
This administration has treated
the Industrial situation as pro.i7u
In which all Americans are yita!!!
concerned and In which no American
will be able to profit unless legis
lation Is along broad and cCLs,-Uc
tive lines. This method OF treating
the industrial situation Is very oh
noXiuus to Mr., Gompers c0A hi
CLIQUE. They have not been able q
give orders TO the White House
They have not ben able to give or
ders to the Congress. They were no
able to give orders to the Agricul
tural Conference. Nor will they b.
able to give orders to the Ameri
can working man, who is showing
increasing disposition 10 do his owl
thinking and to wear the label Of n
boss. either within or without tn
ranks of labor