Evening star., 1923-10-07
D|SSENSI0NS HELD
RU|N0US T0LAB0R
Cleveland Delegate, at Port
land Session, Says Ranks
Have Lost 1000 600.
III the Associated Press.

NJ the Associated Pren.
PORTLAND. Ore, October S-Pro-
test against playing factions OF the
labor movement against each otner
was made In an address at the con-
ventton of the American Federation
Of Labor here today by Max s. Hays
of Cleveland. When he had reached
the climax of his attack upon those
who have stigmatized certain union
radicals and bolshevists" and had
declared that 100000 had Withdrawn
from organized labor because or DIS
sensions, he was called to order py
President Gompers, VINO askeo
whether he was still discussing the
matter on which he had risen to talk
the union label"
IT believe that anything that con-
tributes to unity in the LABOR move,
ment is conducive to our purpose
When Hays digressed from his re-
ma, ks on the union label, he declared,
he had something to say when mug n ne
offend the ultra conservatives mere.
I'm Cleveland" he said, we DO not
draw the line between the radicals,
the conservatives and all the inter
mediate degrees and distinctions OF
belief that are encouraged by those
who would split the labor movement.
I'VE refuse to engage in contro-
yersy over political and social views.
We do not stigmatize any one VINO
has the courage to advocate an
original thought as q radical OK q
boishevist.
No Personal Curiosity.
1--WE do not even inquire whether
a member belongs to the ku klux
Klan, though / doubt that any are
aT ORGANIZATION.
Unless the soft pedal Is put on
some of the things that are going
the rounds of the press. 1t is not
going 10 help the union movement.
John j. Manning, chairman of the
labels committee, who recommended
that greater attention be paid to the
union label in the fight against the
Hays said che union label had been
OF great help in the recent tights or
the printers union. in which, he said.
S15.000,0o0 had been spent.
Edgar j. Adams of PhiladelPhia
and Norman Taylor Of Amber, Pa.
telegraphed the convention pro
test today against the Disabled Vet
Grams Bureau, which, they charged,
has dismissed some disabled eX-serV-
ice men before their vocational train
ing was completed. This was referred
TO the resolutions committee after
President Gompers declared that the
complaint of the disabled veterans
Should receive attention.
John l.. Lewis. president of the
United Mine Workers Of America. de-
nouneed those elements in union
labor which attempt to set aside
union rules and traditions
attacks OF organized business" he
said. I'VE have the difficulty of being
the breeding ground of theorists that
are often at variance with the laws
Of the organization and the land.
Validity Of Coatractx.
Our union has long stood for the
validity of contracts, and has in
sisted upon its members carrying out
Its obligations, yet from time 70
time, teachers Of false PHILOSOPHERS
have succeeded in inducing many Of
our people to desert these principles
and follow false gods. 80
-In Canada in 1919, many of our
members took up the idea of one big
union. The United Mine Workers of
northwest Canada and routed IL. ,.s
Again" he continued. when we
were engaged in negotiations in the
anthracite mine district of Pennsyl-
vania we were faced with a revolt
against our organization and against
the Canadian government in the mari
time provinces.
directed by agents from Moscow
strike was called in Nova Scotia.
The United Mine Workers revoked
the charter and rehabilitated the un-
ION. Production was resumed, and
we are now disciplining the men who
revolted.
So long as am president OF the
United Mine Workers of America I
shall uphold the laws of the orsaRi-
cation"
Discussing the recent s,ttlemea. In
Pennsylvania, he said u was made
possible only by an organization of
men who have been SteadtaStly loyal
to the principles of the union
John w. Brown, British represent
ative at the headquar. JOS of the In
ternational Federation of Trade pn-
ions at Amsterdam, made Il plea for
unity. Division in the union move
ment, he said. was the only thing
that could defeat it.