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Show DECLARES NATION FACES P ;RL OF GREAT SOCIAL UPHEAVAL SENATOR MYERS, of Montana, who scents movement to soviet- ' Ize the national ftovcrnniejit. i r ' ' 1, ' s 4 I ' 1 I - A 3 v- s- .a -. 4 ' ' ' r ; , i SCENTS PL! TO SGJIETIZE Senator Myers of Montana Mon-tana Declares Steps Are Under Way to Revolutionize System. Harding Accuses Presi-j Presi-j dent of Encouraging Radical Tendencies of Certain Labor Leaders. By ARTHUR SEARS IFENNINO. M'hi';in Tribuno Special Service.) , WASHINGTON', Sept. 11. The unionized police s!rike in Boston, with its attendant bloodshed and riot, the 'formation of a police union in Washington Wash-ington in affiliation with the American Federation of Labor, and the disclosure that steps nrf being taken to unionize tho police in fifty other largo cities have aroused grave fears in congress of a concerted radical movement to soviet ie the American government. That the American government will ho eovictined within two V4nrs. presumably presum-ably with the American Federation of Labor in control, unless the radical program is halted, was the prediction of Senator Myers of Montana in the senate today. The logical sequence of unionizing the police as a part of or-gani:vd or-gani:vd labor, he said, will be the unionizing of the army and navy, and Senator Thomas, of Colorado, asserted that the effort to unionize the army already is being made. SAYS PRESIDENT ENCOURAGES RADICALS. Senator Harding of Ohio accused President Wilson of tolerating and encouraging en-couraging the radical tendencies of the times which have produced the schemes for labor control of the railroads, the coal mines, and the police nnd for the introduction of the soviet principle of workers' management of industry. That the president finds some virtue in the unionization of the police under the control of organized labor is inferred in-ferred from his action in halting the efforts of the commissioners of the District Dis-trict of Columbia to bivak up the affiliation af-filiation of the Washington police with the American Federation of Labor. In reference to his request to suspend action ac-tion until after the conference of capital cap-ital and labor, the commissioners today obtained a continuance of the injunc ; tion proceedings brought against them by the Washington police and agreed ! not to interfere with the police union j pending further manifestation of the 1 president's pleasure. MEETS APPROVAL OF LABOR LEADERS. It is surmised that t he president intends in-tends to have the conference take up the question of labor union organization organiza-tion of policemen and other employees of municipal, as well ns static and federal, fed-eral, government along with the general problem of improving the relations between be-tween capital and labor. This procedure pro-cedure has the approval of union leaders, lead-ers, who admit no distinction between the principles involved in a strike of a police union against the government and the strike of a plasterers' union against a contractor. With approval of the administration a union of federal employees was organized or-ganized a couple of years ago nnd affiliated af-filiated with the Federation of Labor, but its charter provides that it shall not participate in a strike against the government. gov-ernment. Several organizations of postal pos-tal employees are affiliated with the federation and some of their leaders recently re-cently hinted at the possibility of a strike for higher pr.v. APPARENT AIM TO SOLIDIFY LABOR VOTE. TIip activities of orcanlzt'd lalior in reaching out lor control of the oern-niont oern-niont lend s;eci:il sif;nincunce to tiie de-ye'oping de-ye'oping movement for ihe formation of (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) SCENTS PLAN 10 ; SDVIETIZE U. S. : (Continued From Pago One.) a lnijor party to nominate & candidate for pre W '?i it next j'pr. The aim of this movrnent is to solidify labor in support t-f a I platform o soviet government principles. prin-ciples. Solictor Myers told the 'o'late that If concri'oss permits the Washington police to unionize In affiliation with orsanizeci libor overy city of 5000 population or more will follow suit within sixty days and tha unionization of the soldiers and sailors will follow. "And then you will have a soviet fiov ernment," declarod Senator Myera. nVVo will have a soviet government within two years unless some branch of the government govern-ment steps in nnd stops this tendency. There will bo no need of boldtn an election elec-tion In 1320 to elect a llepubKipn or Democratic Dem-ocratic president ; ft soviet government will have been organised by that time." PREDICTS FAILURE OF CONFERENCE. Senator Myers called attention to tho police strike riots In Host on, the threatened threat-ened railroad strike, the impending steel strike and the danger of a coal strike. Ilo predicted the conference called by President Wilson to bring labor and capi tal together In Washington In October 1 would accomplish nothing toward solving ! the problem. "I sometimes think that the radical labor la-bor lenders simply make demands which they know can't be met for the purpose of creating additional unrest and chaos," he said. "If wo have the strikes threatened threat-ened the people will be confronted Vitfl privation and starvation. What will become be-come of the nation by spring no One knows. I am a friend of labor, but 1 don't believe in government of tho unions, by the unions, and for the unions." Senator Myers urged congress to enact legislation forbidding the payment of wages to Washington policemen who Join t he union, lie declared the unionization of the Washington police had a nationwide nation-wide sicnincance and constituted a long stride toward sovietintr America. Behind It, there was something more than a mere desire of the policemen to affiliate with the union, he declared. Some sinister sinis-ter influence aiming to set up a soviet government in America was promoting It, In Senator Myers's opinion. Senator Thomas's Warning. Senator Thomas asserted that policeman police-man or other public employee could not serve two masters government and the Federation of Ivbor. "The conflict of interests and of obligations obli-gations Is absolutely irreconcilable." he said. "This is a step which, if accomplished, accom-plished, will not end with the so-called unionizing of the police forces of America. Already efforts are being made to unionize union-ize the army; and If it is legitimate to unionize the police, it is equally legitimate to unionize the soldiers of the republic." In protesting recently to the district commissioners against their move to discharge dis-charge union policemen, Samuel Gompers taid: "These policemen are reasoning1 and patriotic citizens, men of families, as a rule. "They find that all this (the seeking of relief from grievances which they are re- quired to bear in the service), is a slow process, and they show by their affiliation affilia-tion (with the American Federation of Labor), their desire to have the support of the American labor movement and the great mass of four million workers to get behind their request and their applications. applica-tions. - Gompers's Declaration. "If governmental authority, If employers, employ-ers, ns a rule, will antagonize the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor and tend to cripple crip-ple its efforts, you will have something to d'ni with br.side us. You will have the mn flvinir where they think they can HTun "relief, and in each stage of their tiiiripjiOtntni'Tit they will throw themselves them-selves where some relief Is promised, either immediate or In the future. "For good order, for peace, tranquillity, progr'-xs, safety, I nppeal to the comrms-'inru-rs to rencind the order against pnlire affiliation with the American Federation of bor. "Four million Americans were trained tr cru:-h autocracy in Furope in the crisis through which we have just passed. These men do not now propose to stand for autocracy in America." |