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Show CABLES PROTEST ; TO PRESIDENT ; . Gompers Unwilling That .'; Report of Labor Body-Be Body-Be Reopened. NEW YORK, April U. Samuel Oom-Iii., Oom-Iii., preyidf-nt of the American J'V-d--ia- ; t tion of I-'ibor, who has reiurne'l from th; P'a..e conrren: wh'-re h: tiv.-i ut chairman of the. internatioual laUir k--;ib-lai ion cromn.it I te, toni--,':U rabk-fl Prusi- ', (-.nt WUon, protesting a-aiirU rcopon-iriK rcopon-iriK the report draft ci by ti.e commute:. commu-te:. Mr. Gompers's action v.-a a based on a report that the plenary esion of the 1 peae conference had adopted the report, f' witn an amendment offered by G. N". Unman, labor member of the Jiritih cabi- , n-t. This amendment, tt wan .said, reeoi;- nize'l that "conditions peculiar to - the orient make absolute uniformity in labor l''k'ilatioii im noss! hie." "I canled .'resident Wilson that I am ; irri polled to protest against any a me mi me nt a or reopen I ni? the covenant," Mr. Gompers .said, in announcing that he had rallied to t'aris. "Jt took the labor rep-n-.-ientatlveH of the worll two months to ptTift-rt the covenant and I most cm-pha cm-pha t lea lly protest against reopen inpr it." Mr. GnmptTd said that, while organized labor "w ill do lt share" to f iff lit "I0ol- ihevlMm," it "cannot carry the burden ' alone." "I hold the Holshevlki, stand - patters and profiteers a-s equally a menaee to the civilization of their time." lie continued. "If every effort made by the constructive movement of Ameriira is opposed, thwarted and defeated, we shall tbn be powerle.-i.s to be of any help." M r. Gompers declared that President Wilson was in entire accord with him in , his decision not to attend the International Interna-tional Socialist conference in lierne, ' ' ayreeinj? with him that it "would not he fitting to confer with unrepentant Germany Ger-many while the wounds of war were still wide open." "I haven't read of, much less met, a , . German who repented of his country's crime against civilization," said the venerable ven-erable labor leader. "They call it a 'revolution' in Germany, when not one man of the government has been arrested, ar-rested, detained, punished or killed. Draw your own inference. It is a sort of opera, bouffe. The junkers and financial Interests Inter-ests are in charge there now, just as much as they were before the war, aipl they are spreading the policy of discontent discon-tent and miserable host Hi ty throughout the world to maintain the same conditions condi-tions In Germany." |