Imperial Valley press., 1922-09-04
UNION CHIEFS
IN LABOR DAY
STRIKE TALKS
Secretary Davis Says There
Is No Defence for r. Il.
Strike BlOOdshed
GOMPER IS DEFIANT
Chief Stone Warns Workers
To Abandon War for
Industrial Peace
BY JAMES T. KOLBERT
United Press Leased Wire

United PreSS Leased wire
WASHINGTON, Sept. A call to
workers of the country to organize i'll
the "war for honorable industrial
peace" was sounded by national union
leaders in Labor Day messages as pre-
parations are completed for the fight
against restrictive rail strike injunc-
tion obtained by Attorney General
Daugherty and threats of general
strike were in the air.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
A. p. of L., struck the keynote calling
upon all laboring men to rally to the
stand of the unions and "end this an
ti-labor war.
His stand was upheld in the messages
of Warren S. Stone, president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
and John Il. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, who declared
"peace we must have or civilization
will perish.''
Secretary of Labor Davis also issued
a Labor Day message in which he
pleaded for peace from different di-
rections.
''No law can be too drastic, no law
too severe for those miscreants who
desire brutality in any conflict hel
said.
"There can be no defense for blood
shed or destruction in America. 1t is
a challenge to our whole scheme of gov
ernment and to our whole American
spirit.'
Meantime operatives of the depart
with extraordinary pow
ers under the Daugherty injunction
moved against Labor Day meetings of
strikers throughout the country.
To Prevent Violence
Intimations were given by depart
ment officials that steps had been
taken to prevent defendants in the
from addressing strikers in
PENDANTS who have been served with
writs are liable to arrest.
Orders issued to federal district at
torneys to watch all Labor Day demon
stration for possible violations of the
injunctions. Union leaders were pre-
pairing for legal combat against the
to be staged when Attorney
General Daugherty appears before the
Chicago district court in an effort to
have it made permanent. 1t will be
attacked on the ground that it robs
strikers of two guaranteed constitu-
tional rights, in curtailing the right of
public assembly and preventing strike
chiefs from maneuvering their groups.
Gompers plea for organization was
toned down with spirit of satisfac
tion at "the outcome of the war thus
far.
cit is apparent that in the four
years the enemies of the workers of
humanity have waged their ineessant
war against the trade union movement
in particular, that the workers have
suffered least,0 Gompers said. 'sThe
organized workers have weathere the
war with compact forces ever ready
to go forward and confound the enemy
and to carry on to the success the toll
er s struggle for the establishment of
justice.
"Now is the time for the workers to
rally more completely to the standards
of the union.
''Now is the time to organize thor
oughly and completely with the spirit
of solidarity so that a strong united
front may be arrayed against those
that are preying upon us.
Must Have Peace
The message of Stone hailed the
struggle as a movement by labor to
"bring humanity toward social order. -
"Peace we must have, else civiliza-
tion perish,' he declared. "War, the
red plague of mankind, must be for
ever banished by the workers who, at
the behest of diplomats and for profi-
teers who have for ages shed their
blood and borne the burden of taxes.
"Liberty we have or life itself will
be futile" Lewis, in his message
predicted GA battle to the end.
"We stand with columns unbroken
and we win continue to stand in solid
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