Show 4 RIGHTS Of THE THET I c r T LABORING MAN I II I resident President Gompers Holds Up J r J 1 His End at Civic Feder Federation FederI Federation h Meeting I 1 tl New York April Avril 2 President Gem Cam Campers pers pens of nt the American Federation of Labor defended the ue use u e of the boycott today before the New York council of the tIle National Civic Federation Ad Addressee Addresses dresses by Professor Frederick J T Stun Stimon HOn eon on of Harvard and or John Bates Batel Clark of Columbia stirred him to speak i Professor Stimson referred to the re recent rent recent cent nt prO F i against Mr Gompers and others in Washington A blacklist blackl f t is I unlawful he said ald aldI I but a which commends i ill is lawful In the Gompers Gomper was wasa 88 a proved combination m by a number of persons to influence the public not to trade with a stove ston company If this announcement regarding the stove com company company company pany had been IM printed once one it would he fair to assume it a matter of news but printed ted In III every number for years with the announced Intention of doing HO so In all newspapers ne possible for the purpose of coercing the stove company most Host jurymen would decide that those Nets showed a primary Intention to molest the stove company Mr Gompers said in reply I am not a lawyer and the beings of the lawyers asao uto the legality or illegality of certain acts by the la labor labor labor bor organizations organisations Is II not for me to deal with But as al ta to what Is IB fundamentally right I think 1 I am qualified to speak If the laws do not properly safeguard d the fundamental rights of or the laborer then they should hould be changed I know that labor the right to organize to protect what it possesses pos es elJ which whick is the power to work and to give Ive or refuse Its Ita patronage |