Show POI 1 R RAPS PS Pl PLAN Of lA LABOR O Senator Avers Federation Chiefs Promote Sinister Movement I Assails Class Rule in Federal Offices Br Rr As tO d lre Press U UTICA TICA X N. Y Feb l 12 Charges Ch Charges es that behind time the announced plan of time the American Federation o of Lab Labor r to obtain t the e election of a Congress and a President favorable to its policies pol POI POI-I existed a sinister movement mo of a small coterie of labor leaders lenders who have grown powerful by the contri contributions u- u they have levied upon labor to set up a government go within a government government gov gov- eminent were made here tonight by United States Senator Miles Poindexter ter of Washington in an nn address be before beZ fore the thc Utica Republican club dub The Thc farmers CarmelS and laboring laboring- men of oJ America he asserted have In every crisis been the great s bulwark of our free tree institutions and they will not follow Collow follo fol fol- low lo the thc mistaken leadership which I would place tho the government under the thc within despotic control of government the lie government r This government I within the go government So Is not riot ruled b by labor but Is an autocracy of a few cw I leaders who would not only Impose I their will upon labor itself but hut would I extend It it not only b by the thc ballot but j I by 11 strikes and antl starvation allon of the lie en entire entire entire en- en tire people of or tho time United States ItIs It ItIs Itis Is obnoxious as the Invisible government govern govern- ment men a against which tho the people protested protested pro pro- tested in In 1912 of or CI Claim Control J. J Feared There is no Question of ot the right of the thc American Federation of Labor to secure control of or Congress and of the Presidency b by way of ot the tho ballot box If it it can do 10 so in accordance with the proclamation It has Just Is Issued Is- Is sued it Il will bo be an evil for tho the United States lates and most of or all for or labor lubor it U- U self sele If all any class In this nation nallon whether t employers or es In l industry capital capital cap- cap capI j I ital itai or labor lallor should succeed In an any such uch j i program but that Is one of the thc perils i which the thc nation must face faco as the thc price of free reo government I Mr Ir Gompers accuses Con Congress ress' ress ho continues but Is not nol specific In his j I complaints On thc time contrary the thc announcement an- an admits that lint all essential i legislation in labors labor's bill of or gric I of 1906 was cas enacted This 1 lion ion asserts that the thc Cr free e institutions I of tho the country are arc menaced but tho the only specific reference Is to the time proposed proposed pro pro- 1 posed e legislation Tho The rl right ht to throttle lh the tho transportation of or the thc nation on which A tIme the lives of ot the tho the l 1 I Continued on page paso 10 f I I POINDEXTER ATTACKS lABOR CHIEfS CHIEfS' PlAN Continued from Page 1 1 people depend la is I not one Cne of ot our our free Institutions Fd Federation Rends n Reproved pro d The Tho of officials tc 13 Is of or the American Federation Fedoration Fed Fed- oraton oration of ot Labor oppose not only the antistrike legislation but the establishment establishment I of ot a government a tribunal for forthe forthe forthe the hearing and settlement of Industrial Industrial industrial indus Indus- trial disputes The position of or Mr Ir Gompers Is that these questions must be left let to the labor unions themselves to lo settle sette under tho the compulsion of ot ty tyIng tyIng tying ty- ty ing up transportation and essential in In- In This would seem scorn to present clearly cearly the Issue of government by b- due process of or law or government b by co co- co To claim the tho right of or an any ari private organization to la lay an embargo food and of or upon pon the peoples people's supply other essentials of life is to claim the rl right ht of ot private and civil civi war b by one class in tho the community against the te community Itself Labor or as a the tho foundation of or our industrial industrial in- in structure Is entitled to every consideration perhaps perhaps perhaps the first consideration con con- at at at the hands of the tho go government gov gow- and In general it has ha received received re- re such treatment The railroad bill bi as reported contained liberal provisIon provisions provisions pro- pro visions visIon for or sharing profit and other i benefits for tor labor These were opposed and stricken out at the Instances Instance of ot tho the thoI I officials of or tho the American Federation because It would of or Labor 1 presumably It tend to lessen the control l of ot these leaders over labor Right of Con Congress S The The American Federation of oC Labor l the senator declared claims the right to enforce Its demands by taking the control of or transportation out of the hands of ot Cn Congress where it Is vested by the constitution and to assume such control control Itself If I this question queston is submitted to the ballots of the tho farmers and of ot labor it itself itself it- it I- I self and to all al classes of ot American people who in the last last analysis roust must must decide It It he declared there Is no question Queston that the constitution will wi be preserved preserved |