The New York herald., 1922-02-01
Working People Here Best
Producers, Civic Fedora
tiOn Hears.
FAMINE FUND ATTACKED
Soviet Propaganda Goes With
Appeal for Money to Help
Starving.

Samuel sGompers, president or the
American Federation of Labor, told the
delegates to the meeting of the National
Civic Federation in the Hotel Astor
yesterday that he was emphatically
opposed to any form of unemploy-
ment insurance for the United States.
Any such system, he declared, means
recognition of unemployment as
permanent condition, and he ex-
pressed the belief that unemployment
Is controllable and that there Is a
remedy for it. He said:
TN England unemployment insur
ance has been a failure. because what
labor wants is not insurance but en-
ployment. Another big objection to it
is the fact that such system would
subject working people to all sorts Of
rules and regulations and investiga-
ton and supervision
Concerning the willingness and eff
cheney of American labor, Mr.. Gompers
added:
Statistics will prove that there are
no working people, either individually
or collectively who produce so much az
do the working people OF the United
States. And think that it comes with
bad grace, from our own people when
the toilers OF the country are held UP to
ridicuc or to severe censure that they
curtail production when they have been
and are the greatest producers Of any
working people in the entire world.
unemployment Hand Made
81 believe that the periodicity which
has come upon the industrial life Of our
country by which these cycles OF uncm-
ployment come about are hand made,
and in too great frequency premedi-
tatedly. If there were as much atten-
ton given to the encouragement Of our
industrial life and its expansion as there
Is given to curtailing--to shutting down
institutions so that there shall be a cor
ner, tending toward the profiteering OF
manufacturers and financiers - we
would have less OF this periodic unem-
ploymcnt, much more of general em-
uloyncnt and business prosperity and
onward march to a greater and higher
The afternoon session OF the Fedora
tons meeting was devoted largely to
discussion of Soviet Russia and the
conference of the Powers at Genoa, the
principal speakers being DR.. Paul ".
Miliukov, former Minister OF Foreign
Affairs under the Kercnsky Govern
ment. and Capt. Emmett Fitzpatrick.
Red Cross worker who spent ten months
in a Bolshevik prison. Both criticized
the Soviet Government and condemned
any recognition of the Lenine Govern
ment either at Genoa or elsewhere. DR.
Miliukov said:
'The Genoa conference wrll illustrate
once more the impossibiity of bridging
the chasm between Bolshevism and civ
lization. Tic Bolshevist rule is near
Ing its logical end The material re-
sources upon which IL rested are near
exhaustion. The Bolsheviki are badly
in need OF loan. and they want it for
temporary uplieep of their much dilap-
idated machinery of domination"
Capt. Fitzpatrick predicted the down.
fall of the Soviet supporters. q small
minority OF the Russian people, and the
rise of new Russia.
Relief Propa ga nda Attacked.
At the close Of the afternoon session
a resolution, introduced by K. A. Mof-
fett of the Bricklayers' Union, was
adopted. 1t provided for an investiga-
ton by the federation of various Boil
shcvist organizations formed here for
propaganda under the guise of famine
relief. According to Mr.. Moffatt one OF
these organizations is the friends of
Soviet Russia. which prints this on it's
lctterheads:
Our principle: We make the work
Ing class appeal. Give not only to feed
the starving. but to save the Russian
workers revolution. Give without i'm
posing imperialistic and reactionary con
ditions as do Hoover and others
Col Alvin NJ. Owsley. national direc-
tor Of the Americanlzation Commission
Of the American Legion. declared that
this is not the time for the man who
advocates strange and unheard of doc
trines. and that IL he had 1t in his
power to compel it. every man. woman
and child in the United States would
speak only English.
Besides Mr.. Gompers. those who spoke
at the morning session were Prof John
!. Rudolph Cumnins of the chair OF
political economy at the University of
Wisconsin #. Tecumseh Sherman. son
OF the civil war General. and Capt. Leslie
ViclScrs of the National Industrial Con-
ference Board. All spoke on the un-
employment insurance question. Alton
Il. Parker presided.
This afternoon the conference will
take up immigration and the Washing
ton Conference on Limitation Of Armo-
mcnts.