Evening star., 1923-04-13

Revolutionary and pacif1st organi-
cations are getting the benefits of
the 100000 fortune which Charles
Garland of Boston refused as an in
heritance from his father now in the
hands of the American Fund for Pub
lie Service. Inc. of New York. 1t was
charged in a statement by President
Samuel Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor last night.
Investigation of the organization
and the connections of it's trustees.
Mr.. Gompers said. had served to link
1t with perhaps fifty or more of the
leading pacifist. pro-boleshvist and
parlor pink organizations" and to
reveal TO some slight extent the
ramification Of revolutionary propa-
ganda and influence in the United
States"
100000 Loaned.
The Associated Press last night
carried a dispatch from New York
stating that the American Fund for
Public Service. Inc. in answer to the
Gompers attack. had made public a
report of the board of directors.
stating that more than $4,000 Of the
fund had been given outright and
100000 loaned to radical and labor
organizations in the first six months
of operation. Norman NJ. Thomas.
chairman, and Roger n. Baldwin.
secretary, issued the report.
The New York statement added
that a variety of pioneering enter
prises' in labor and radical move
ments appear as benef1ciaries in the
list Of gifts and loans made to 40 out
of 1877 organizations applying to the
fund for aid.
These revelations are regarded here
as some of the most outstanding re-
cent developments in movements to-
ward radical detectives.
GomperS stated that because the
Workers Education Bureau. one of
the child organizations of the A. F. of
l., is not definitely Committed to a
radical program" the American Fund
for Public Service, Inc, has refuses to
include this bureau among benefici-
aries. The bureau had made a re-
quest for a ne-hundred- Thousand
dollar endowment fund. Gompers
made public a letter from the fund
organization refusing the request in
issuing the statement. Mr.. Gompers
added In the statement. that the re-
quest had been made as a test" to
determine to what purpose the Car
land Inheritance was being put.
Gompers Makes Changes
BY stating in its letter that it would
support only such labor educational
movements as At workers for carry
ing on the struggle for the emancipa-
tion of their class in every sphere
the fund corporation, Mr.. Gompers
charged, had disclosed itself in its
true garb as a proponent of revolu-
tionary effort"
The Gompers' statement declared
that Roger Baldwin, Robert Morss
Lovett, Scott Nearing. William d.
Foster. Sidney Hillman and others of
the directors Of the Garland fund had
been more or less constantly aSso-
ciated with radical labor and other
organizations which the American
Federation of Labor considered as
"subversive of the best interests of
American citizenship and the princi-
public and the American Federation
of Labor are founded"
1T should not be necessary here to
declare with emphasis" Mr.. Gompers
the American Federation Of Labor is
officially interested could accep,
money from any such source. The
federation. by vote Of it's conventions
and by the convictions Of its MEM
bership, is unalterable in it's support
of democracy and in its hostility to
every subversive movement, whether
the movement be red revolutionary.
paciflSt or autocratic and reactionary.
The statement itself announced that
the American Federation of Labor re-
CARDS the disclosures as most i'm
portant evidence of the revolutionary
character of certain organized efforts
which seek to pose before the public
as thoroughly American and nom
revolutionary.
The total estate left to young Gar
land by his millionaire father, ac-
cording to the statement. was report
ed to have been approximately one
million dollars. Then the statement
prefaces its charges by the following
summary:
Upon the advice of a number Of
persons. Charles Garland endowed a