The New York herald., 1922-07-28
FRIDAY. JULY IS. 1922.
President Harding Answers False
Strike Leaders.

s~ Strike Leaders.
1t was high time that the President
of the United States called to account
the recklessly irresponsible and cal
lousy unscrupulous bearers of false
witness against the Government IS
policy and conduct in the railroad
strike and the coal strike. For in
his indignant telegram to ]. CLEvE
DEAN Mr.. HARDING does not answer
merely the chairman of the Railway
Employees Publicity Association
he answers SAMUEL GoMPERs, who has
!. put into the mouth of the President
sof the United States words never ut.
tered by the President of the United
States and has attributed to the Gov
ernment of the United States acts
never committed and purposes never
contemplated by the Government OF
J. the United States,
President HARDING likewise an
swers BERT M. JEWELL, guilty of the
same Misrepresentation, distortion
. and falsehood. He answers JOHN L.
LEWIS, guilty of the same odious
practices. He answers the whole
!, tribe of incendiary strike leaders
{, that strive to infiame their deiuded
followers and to mislead the public
with declarations and descriptions
that are nothing more and nothing
less than falsehoods as to plain facts
. and forgeries as to official records.
DEAN, the publicity agent, had the
. impudence and the dishonesty to ac.
. cuse the President of the United
States of trying to establish invol-
Z untary servitude" among workers by
arbitrary DEGREES and military force.
{ But 20 have GoMPERs and JEWELL and
!. LEWIS and the rest of them said the
very same thing in even more intem-
perate as well as no less unprincipled
words.
q DEAN had the shameless effrontery
to speak of the Presidents attempt
:. to place American labor under thf
gun But so have GoMPERs and
JEWELL and LEWIS and the rest OF
them ranted the same insults ant
/ the same Misrepresentation
. So when the President of the
! United States nails the fraud of the
false and insolent DEAN he nails the
/, fraud of the false and insolent Com
= perses, Jewels and Lewises. When
the President OF the United States
Z tells this man DEAN that there has
I been no proposal to compel men tc
2 work under military coercion he tells
:: to all the Gomperses and Jewels
and Lewises who have shouted the
q same Misrepresentation in the high
ways and byways of union labor.
= When the President of the United
States tells this man DEAN that the
only act and the only aim of the
L Government are to uphold the Law
against violence. and crime and tc
protect men who do want to work in
their right so to work he tells il to all
!. the Gomperses and JEWELS and Lew.
q ises.
When the President of the United
3 States tells this man DEAN that the
Government speaks only for the
American people as whole and the
Il common good OF all its citizenship
he tells it to the Gomperses and Jew
: ellis and Lewises.
And when the President Of the
, United States tells them these things
he tells them what they know and
what they always have known Is the
fact and the truth. They know nc
military finger. no Government fin
GER has been lifted to make single
union man in the country, on strike
or not on strike, work when he does
not want to work. They know the
sole purpose and sole use of the Gov
ernment authority in this grave
strike situation is TO prevent brutal
murderous mobs from attacking,
beating. butchering and burning
peaceful wage eerners who do wish
TO work both in the exercise of their
|. supreme legal and moral right and
In their response 10 the call OF duty,
as the President expresses it, in the
service OF the common welfare and
I the country's security.
. Yet these strike leaders who have
been nothing better than apostles of
incondiarism in their wanton at
tacks upon the officers of American
government have continued to bear
false witness against the words and
the deeds Of the President of the
United States, the aims and acts Of
the Government of tho United States.
They are all cheek by jowl with this
man DEAN, the publicity manufac-