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Show YARDMEN STRIKE CULLER MISTAKE 4 Gompers Offers Support of Federation Against Revolters CLEVELAND, April 12 Samuel Gompers, president of. the American Federation of Labor, arrived here. to a'ttehd the convention of tho CigaV-ruakers' CigaV-ruakers' International union. Gompers declared tho walkout of yardmen a mistake and promised the whole weight of the American Federation Fed-eration o Labor influence to support the brotherhoods in their struggle with the revolting strikers, but asserted assert-ed that the strikers "have a grievance" griev-ance" and that it' must be adjusted without any delay. He said he predicted pre-dicted trouble at the time the Cummins-Each bill was before congress and blamed congress for bringing the trouble on. Mr. Gompers expressed confidence that the strike soon would be ended and declared that he had no fear of the effect on the union labor question! generally. "The strike is a mistake," he said. "These men don't realize the mllle-nium mllle-nium cannot be made in a day. The progress comes only by years of perseverance per-severance and labor. "This strike has no real leadership and no real plan. "f saw this trouble coming on. I testified at Washington it would happen. hap-pen. It was inevitable. It is the protest pro-test of the men against the effort to logislate away their rights. ,"It is men like Senator Cummins and Gov. Allen, of Kansas, who aro to blamo for this situation with their legislation to deny a man the right to quit work to enforce a legitimate claim or redress injury. "It is the policy of getting out injunctions, in-junctions, both prohibitory and manda-tory manda-tory and so keep men at labor under grievous conditions, which has brought on this wave of uncontrollable resentment. resent-ment. "It is not the brotherhood officials or the union leaders. They have done all they could at all times to hold their men within bounds, but there are times when human nature will assert liself. This is one of them." |