The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-03

pulSOry labor upon one part O1 the people of the United States and let the rest be free. If there is going to be compulsory l labor, then we shall endeavor to enforce l 1t upon all
 Mir. Gornpers said it lis officially de- clared' that there are now 5,0O0,OO0 idle i'll the United States, declaring this a blot upon the escutcheon of our country that nothing of a tangible character has been done"
 Mir. Gompers having asked what Judge Hooper meant by references to radical l labor leaders, that official decried intent to so label the federation leader, declar- l ing proof of radiCalis1n i'll the labor move ment Is to be seen in the permanent effort to oust Mir. Gompers from his position Matthew Woll, and ex-Judge Parker, clashed mildly when the latter following an address by Mr. Woll on the "Consti- tuition and the view point of the worker" declared that Mir. Woll in accusing the United States Supreme Court of usurp- ing power to declare invalid acts of Con- gress was not sustained by the authori- ties"
 "Wfen we condemn the Supreme Court of the United States for usurpa- tion of power we merely restate the pos ition of Jefferson and Lincoln," said MT. Woll.
 Russia was the chief subject discussed at the annual meeting of the National Civic Federation Wednesday, the body adopting a resolution recommending all relief for famine sufferers be sent through the American Relief Ad1ninis- tration and arranging for committee to investigate the work of other relief bod ies, which the resolution sets up involve needless waste and re-duplication of overhead charges"
 The resolution further charges that formed and are being formed by Bol- shevists and Bolshevik sympathizers," and funds collected sent Ito that notor ious insurrectionarE and propagandist of the Soviets, labeled the Russian Red Cross'"
 The friends of Soviet Russia, the only body named i'll the resolution, IS specih- caly picked for investigation, the reso- lution quoting its letter heads as reading
 Our principal We make the following class appeal: Give not only to the starv- ing, but to save the Russian workers revolution. Give without imposing i'm peralistic and reactionary conditions as do Hoover and others
 That Bolshevist rule III Russia is near ing its end was the declaration of Prof. Paul N Milukoff, minister of Foreign Affairs in the Russian Provisional Gov ernnent and leader of the left wing of the Constitutional Democratic Party. The reasons underlying the call for the Genoa conference he said, was big business in sofne of the European countries, the Bolshevists accepting invitations to at tend because of the material exhaustion of the Bolshevist regime"
 The Genoa Conference, if it is held, said he, may only result in disappolnt ment for business circles and in strength ening the Bolshevist's power. Conse quently it will not improve the European and international economic situation. It will retard rather than speed the return to economic nor1nalcy in Europe and on this side of one ocean,"
 Capt Emmett kilpatrick the Red Cross worker who was nine months in Soviet prisons, spoke breify of his ex- periences, expressing the belief that the Russian people will eventually throw of the rule of Trotsky and Lenine,
 In talks with leaders of the Bolshevist movement after his capture, he said, American affairs were freely discussed, the leaders talking of the time when revolution would come in the United States
 "Perhaps in every city, certainly lnl every State," said he there are Bolshe- viks working under ground for the over throw of the American system of gov ernrnent and acting under the direction of the Third Internationale, controlled from Petrograd."
 Col. Alvin M Owsley of the Amerl- canization Commission of the American Legion spoke breiay on his work, advo- l eating a campaign for the general use ot English in the United States.
 Prof John R. Cummons, speaking on unemployment insurance, advocated the enactment of laws similar to that now before the Wisconsin Legislature, which makes support in periods of unemploy- l