The New York herald., 1922-08-23
HOLLAND ADMITS GUN
Hint in CAR STRIKE
Said we Can Shoot When
He Saw State Police
Sent to Buffalo.
GOMPERS BELLIGERENT
Says Harding Intends to
Enslaye Labor and Calls
Men to Resist.
WARNS AGAINST MILLER
Suspects Coal Session Will
Lead to Cold Winter if
Not Watched.
WARNS AGAINST MILLER

SpecioI Dispatch 10 THE NBw York HERALp
PouGHKEEPsIE, Aug. 22.--James +
Holland, president of the State FEEDER.
alton of Labor. severely criticized Gov
Miller at to-day's session OF the fifty.
ninth annual convention OF the feder.
alton in knights of Columbus Hall
During his criticism of the Governor
he referred to the strike Of the Inter
national Railway Company at Buffalo
and attacked the state police and
those responsible for sending the
troopers to territory affected by the
strike.
when I saw those State police
said Mr.. Holland, II said to myself
that many Of our boys had seen SER
vice in the army overseas. and Told
them, If we can shoot over there we
can shoot over here"
Samuel Gompers. president Of the
American Federation OF Labor, adj
dressed the 900 delegates to the con-
vention, declaring that the coal strike
is over. but warning them to watch
closely the special session of the Leg
islature called for Monday by the Gov
ernor.
while the session. is ostensibly to
deal with the coal situation. "<he said, Il
urge you to be on the alert to see that
truly the coal situation may not be an
instrumentality to make it damned cold
for YOU"
II can't be expected to define a defini-
tion," was his comment when asked later
to explain his msgivings.
President Harding and the United
States Railway Labor Board came In
for criticism from the labor chief In
connection with the rail strike, but he
avoided reference to the Yale Club meet
ing of the national executives and their
conference with Warren s. Stone.
Mr.. Gompers charged that President
Harding. in asking for teeth in the
transportation act, aimed at compulsory
labor.
1T would compel men to labor against
their WILL" he said, 'or be fined or
imprisoned, or both. But that doesn't
run railroads and 1t doesn't produce
coal. Men have dared face not only
jail, but the hangman's E1bbet for free.
dom OF labor. and that spirit is not yet
dead even in America"
The @ to = BOARD.
Decisions OF the labor board. he con-
tinued, always came "jughandled with
Il six to three vote" the labor members
always in the minority. or the boards s
personnel the public knew scarcely any
name save that OF the chairman" and
that only because he has been busy
body and a buffer"
Mr. Gompers asserted the railway
executives have assumed the positions
OF being masters OF all they survey in
so far as the shop strike is concerned,
but behind them can be seen the strings
manipulated by Wall Street to destroy
once and for all the shopmen's or
ganizations."
The shopmen will come out tri-
umphantly," he declared, but IL they
should fall first, the railway operatives
would as surely come second"
Courts or boards established upon tho
principle of compulsory arbitration were
impractical and intolerable. according to
the leader OF American labor. He pro-
nounced the Kansas Industrial Court a
failure because despite its machinery
there had been more strikes since Its
establishment than In the entire pro-
vious history OF the State.
These courts and boards would say
to workers." he exclaimed. that yoi
shall not use the economic power YOU
have--you shall not strike. They will
decide. You shall obey. What Is the
difference between slaves and free men
other than that slaves must work ani
free men may work? If law b.,
81.
toll against their will that moment has
slavery and involuntary servitude been
reestablished. But, there is enough r,G
blood In the American people to rcseot
and prevent such endorsements"
The Open shop Drive.
"Rcadjustment OF wages" and "defla-
ton of, labor" Mr. Gompers described as
"a three years campaign to take tnc
wind out OF the working people to re-
duce their Rirth: TO reduce their
stamina" 1t was all part OF "the drive
for the open shop" shop open to all
workers save those who were organized.
Cutting of wages only 'accentuates busi-
ness depression" he contended.
That the drive OF enemies OF labor
to destroy the labor movement had
failed. MIR. Gompers said, had been due
to the unions who had been on strike
for weeks and months the past year,
and kept the faith.
They have fianked the aggressors,
he said. "and now the Grand Army OF
Labor ls on the march to progress and
betterment." =
Organized labor now numbers 4,000.-
600, having doubled itself in the last
decade, according to Mr.. Gompers, and
he estimated IL would rise TO 100000
by 1892. He paid tribute to former
Gov. Alfred Il. Smith "as a 100 per cent
American. and man." and set off ring
ing cheers for the name of the lates,
gubernatoriai candidate.
workmen's compensation should b,
taken out Of the hands OF insurance com.
panies who drove hard bargains'' with
injured workers. Mr. Gompcfs insisted
and placed under State control. How.
ever, he took exception to Samuel Unter.
myers recommends ations for State regu
lation Of labor organizations as ex
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