The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-10
GOMPERS MAKES STIRRING ADDRESS TO OVERFLOW
 AUDIENCE AT HYPERION
Gives Interesting and Entertaining Talk to Large and Enthusias- tic Gathering.

Before crowded house at the Hyperion theater last Sunday evening Samuel Gompers, president of the Amekican Federation of Labor, made stirring address in which he scored the work of Senator Mclean and urged his hearers to support the can didates on the democratic ticket in the election of Tuesday.
 The meeting which was held un- der the auspices of the Non Partisan League, of the New Haven Trades Council, was scheduled to begin at o'clock but there was scarcely a seat left in the big theater before that time arrived. I. M. Ornburn, secretary of the Connecticut Federation of Labor, was the chairman of the evening and Thomas J. Spellacy, democratic nom
 When MT. Spellacy finished his ad- dress, the chairman next introduced Samuel Gompers in few we'll chosen words. MT. Gompers began. his ad- dress by thanking the chairman for the very nice things he said about'h but offered very serious objection to having another year tackled on to his age as Mir. Ornburn introduced MT. Gompers as a grand old man of g when he claims 72 as his right age.
 MT Gompers immediately launched into an attack on the daily papers and said he could appreciate how MT, Spellacy felt over the way that he had been attacked in the press and then these same papers refused to print anything of the Idenials which he sent to every newspaper ir the state m marked copies. ,s
 MT. Gompers said the government Of the United~ States was only an ex- pertinent and took his hearers back to the revolutionary war which he said was caused by the unjust taxation and > misrepresentation of the colonies, right through the important epochs in American history to show that all were caused by desire for freedom for all peoples by the people of. this great nation. ... The Civil war he said was war for the freedom Of the slaves and even though the freedom of all peo- p1es within the confines of these United States was guaranteed under the constitution 1t was not until the Civil war that this section Of the con st1tution was lived up to-
 The Spanish war was fought Tor the liberation of an oppressed people and then he came to the World War which he aracterized as just war of democracy against autocracy. Lauding the part of Labor in the World War he said:
 -"The old Bourbons, since the sign ing of the armistice have made and waged war. in our own country to establish. an autocracy here. But we say we will not bend the knee or ac- cept the yoke by the substitution of an industrial autocracy.
 "W have seen demonstrations on every hand, so there is no mlstahng we are right. The drive for the so- called open shop. What was it? Men and women having had the great visualization through the late war, joined more heartily in unions In order to advance their ideals. The employers who patted us on the back during the war and said we were good boys, didn't like it. When we under took to have the same great visualiza- toin of right and justice for all time, we were no longer good boys.
 Reductions of wages were forced upon us until, like the French at the