Show Pu IND EXTER RAPS PLAN OF lABOR Senator Avers Federation Chiefs Promote Sinister Iove 1 Movement Assails Class Crass Rule in Federal Offices Br Sr Associated U UTICA TICA X N. Y Y Feb 12 Charges Charges that behind the announced plan of the thc American Federation oC or Labor to obtain the Hie election of a 3 Con Congress Ss and a n President favorable to its policies policies pol pot ides existed a sinister movement mo of a n small coterie of or labor lea leaders ers who the tho contributions contributions contributions have ha grown powerful by the they have lc levied ed upon labor to set up it a a bo government tt t within a 1 go gov were made here ber tonight by ly r United States Senator n c ter of Washington in lii an u address dress before before be b fore the Utica Republican n club The farmers and laboring men of ot I America ho he asserted have in every ery I crisis been tho the great bulwark ot or our tree free Institutions and aUll they will not fol follow I low low the mistaken en leadership which would place the government go un under er the within despotic control of or government go the government go This government go within the government go is not ruled by labor but is an autocracy of or a a. few tew leaders who would woul not only Impose their will Ill upon labor itself but would extend exten It not only b by tho ballot but by strikes and starvation of or tho en entire entire en- en tire Ure people of or the United States It ItIs ItIs Itts Is ts obnoxious as the Invisible In government government govern govern- ment menti ment against t which the people protested protested protested pro pro- tested In In 1912 crt of Control There Is no question of or the right of or tho the American Federation of ot Labor to secure control of or Congress and of or orthe the Presidency by way of or tho ballot box if ir It can cnn do llo so in accor accordance with the proclamation It hn has Just is Is- Is sued It will be an evil 11 for the tho United States Stoles and most of or all an for labor It- It self belf If It an any class In this nation whether in Industry capItal capItal capital cap cap- employers employer or ital or labor should succeed in any such such- program but that Is 15 one of time the perils which the time nation must face as the price i of free government go I Mr Ir accuses Congress he continues but Is not specific In his complaints On the contrary the an announcement anI an- an I a admits mits that all nil essential legislation in labors labor's bill bm of or grievances gric of or 1906 was enacted This proclamation tion asserts that th the thu free Cree Institutions of or tho timo tho country countr arc menaced but the on only 1 specific reference Is to the time proposed pro pro- posed SC 1 a antistrike n t I s t r I k e I legislation egi s lat I o n Tb The Therl rl right ht to throttle the transportation of or the nation on which the lives of or the the Continued on page pago l 10 I LABOR CHIEFS CHIEFS' PlAN Continued from Page Pago 1 la v h pato people depend Is not one of or our free tree institutions Federation Rends Reproved Tho ho officials of or the American Federation Fed Fed- craton of or Labor Ibor oppose not only the an legislation ton but tho the establishment establishment of ot a government tribunal forthe for tho the hearing hearing and settlement of Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial disputes Tho position of or Mr dr Gompers Is that those these Que questions tons must be loft lort to the tho labor unions themselves to settle under tho the compulsion of or t ty tyIng tying ty- ty ing InS up tip transportation and essential In industries in- in This would seem to pres present nt clearly the tho Issue of government by due process of oC law Jaw or government by co co- co To claim tho the right of or an any private organization to lay an embargo upon the peoples people's supply of or food rood and other essentials of or life UCe Is to claim the right of ot private and civil civi war b by byone one class in the community against the community itself i Labor as the foundation of our industrial in- in 1 structure Is entitled to oVer every consideration PerhaPs consIderation perhaps tho the first consideration con con- at raton t at the tho hands of or the government government gov gov- and in general it has ha rei re- re i such treatment treatment The railroad bill bl as reported contained liberal Uber pr provisions provisions pro pro- visions for tor or sharing profit and other 1 benefits for labor These were opposed and stricken out at the Instance of or tho the officials of or the tho American Federation of or Labor presumably because it would tend to lessen the control of or these leaders over labor of Menaced The American Federation of or Labor 1 tho the senator declared claims the tho right to enforce Its is demands demands by taking the control of or transportation out of or the hands of or Congress where it i is vested b by the thc constitution and to assume such control itself If fI If this question Queston Is submitted to the ballots of or the farmers an and of or labor It Itself itself it- it I- I self and to to all al classes of or American people who in the this last analysis must decide it he declared there Is no question queston that the tho constitution will wi bo be preserved |