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Show the work. I am not a quitter, nor can there be any easy berth provided for me. I shall be the president of the American Federation of Labor or a worker among the rank and file. "Those who want to get rid of me as president of tho American Federation Federa-tion of Labor will have to try their hand at the convention, where the bona-fide bona-fide delegates will have their right of selection; nor can I be counted out of service by a pretense of overkindness. "When ferreted down, the rumor that I desire to retire from the presidency of the American Federation of Labor will be found in the wish of someone who hates me for my Americanism or for my loyalty to the cause of labor, and who has conceived this gentle method of trying to dispatch me from the field of active work in the frreat cause of labor, justice and humanit-." GOHBS DEHES. HE WLLHEIHE Labor Federation Head Says Published Rumor Work of Enemies. NEW YOBK, May 17. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, denied today a published statement that he was considering con-sidering resigning his post as head of the federation. Mr. Gompers has completely com-pletely recovered from the injuries received re-ceived -some weeks ago in a taxicab accident. ac-cident. Mr. Gompers issued the following statement : "The story published this morning that it is my desire to retire from the presidency of the American Federation of Labor is absolutely without the slightest foundation in fact. "The enemies of the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor, who would weaken or destroy it, have every year publicly declared" de-clared" and privately avowed their determination de-termination to defeat me at each furthcoming furth-coming convention. They hid their hatred of the American Federation of Labor by aiming their shafts of bitterness bit-terness and opposition at me. " am neither warworn nor weary of |