Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1922-06-01
DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS
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only few weeks ago in rassing tn
appropriation bill for the Department
or Justice the Congress inserted
proviso that none OF the money an
propriated for use by the Department
OF Justice may be used for prosecu
tion OF labor organizations for an,
violations of the antitrust law.
One of the earliest acts of the pres
ent Congress in its special session
was tss enactment of the restrivtivt
immigration law, which was conceded
to be piece Of legislation sorely
needed by the industrial workers O.
this country. By reason of this lay
hundreds Of thousands Of people wht
were trying to get away from war-torr
Europe were prevented from coming
to this country and thereby increasing
the ranks of the unemployed, aggra
waiting the congestion in the large
cities where the housing problems
were acute and otherwise adding tc
the industrial distress in America.
The attack of Gompers and his
Democratic associates refers to the
unemployment problem with the as
sertion that upon the shoulders OF
those who control legislation muss
rest responsibility for present unem
ployment. Not only are the
wage-earners crying for relief but the
farmers have their backs to the wall
and are just as earnestly and insist
entity demanding Of Congress to do
al s,ap 60 4
rlptcy." This statement cannot be
characterized otherwise than a delib-
crate misrepresentation.
The unemployment situation n the
United States does not rest upon the
shoulders of the present Congress.
According TO estimates given cut by
the American Federation OF Labor
itself there were between 5000.00
and 100000 workers out of employ
Lent Wen the Democratic admins.
tretion went out of power March 4,
1921. Going further back, 1t is a mat
ter Of record, which can easily be sub
stantiated by referring to the files o..
the daily press. that in the summer
and autumn Of 1920, when the Wilson
regime was in full bloom, so many
hundreds Of thousands of workers
were turned into the streets idle that
Mr. Gompers and the executive com.
'-'''."e 90 the An nr'can Federation of
Labor held special meeting to ror-
slder the industrial crisis. Mr.. Com.
pers gave out interviews during the
summer and fa.l OF 1920 in which he
referred bitterly 10 the hundreds OF
thousands nf idla ,,,ao
40 Re,uh,ican administration
came into mower wb,n ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
was al its uoal, Ear'v In The admin.
:strett,n o., sident Uording co,1od an
Unemployment Conference Mr..
Compers 'uGelf was invited to sit In
this con 'eranre - . l7'oCa.n Ct''o"
Democratic politicians in the Ameri-
can Federation of Lapo;. who are Mr.
Ccmrers' associates in misrepresen,.
ing the Republican administration
were invited to sit in this conference.
Out Of this conference came a practi.
cal progra,n of Temporary relief OF the
unemployment stuatiOn; q nrcgram
which furnished labor to hundreds of
thousands OF men who otherwise
would have been idle AL winter. a
Program which prevented actual and
bitter suffering In the Industrial cen.
ters. Following that conference Mr..
Gompers himself publicly declared
"the rerrosentatiyes of the American
..bor movement are able to give to the
prcYcuncement of the Unemployment
co., -nnce their hearty support be.
cause they are In the main in accord.
ance with the prircjna,s of tho Amer.
Han Federation of Labor and because
they have already proved IN he of
benefit by the test of actual exner,.
ence."
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