Show GOMPERS TElLS JELLS OF LABOR CONGRESS I IFor iFor For First Time tion Approaches Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic Conception By Associated Press NEW YORK Aug 27 Samuel Samuel Gompers last night i issued a statement on the progress of ot labor at the International International International Inter Inter- national Trades' Trades union congress convention convention convention con con- In which he said that the congress congress congress con con- gress for tor the first time ij pro the democratic conception of genuine internationalism The new organization is already something more than a mere framework framework frame frame- work Mr Gompers said It has al already already already al- al ready taken a firm and unmistakable attitude on what is perhaps the gravest gravest gravest grav grav- est problem of ot this critical l hour hour Is Is organized labor to be inveigled into the revolutionary movements that have I been showing their heads In every country of Europe as a a result of ot the war Alluding to the overwhelming defeat by the congress of a resolution calling for organized labors labor's support of ot soviet revolutions Mr Gompers continued DOWN SOCIALIST EFFORTS Th The defeat of ot this proposition I means the definite and final repudiation repudiation tion by the organized labor of Europe I and America not only of ot Bolshevism but of th the whole effort to involve la labor labor labor la- la bor unions in international revolutionary revolution revolution- ary movements of ot any kind It is true that the majority of the delegates profess more or less Socialistic doctrines doctrines doctrines doc doc- trines but th they y have finally and definitely definitely repudiated the persistent and ceaseless efforts of ot the Socialist parties parties par par- ties to utilize the unions for a revolutionary revolutionary revolutionary cataclysm Mr Gompers characterized the re recent recent recent re- re cent Socialist proposal for an international international inter national and revolutionary strike throughout Europe and America last July as near Bolshevism and expressed expressed expressed ex ex- ex- ex I pressed his satisfaction that the labor unions in every country of ot Europe I turned it down with the partial exception exception exception ex ex- of ot Italy This proposed general general general gen gen- genI I eral strike he declared was the last hope of ot the pro and other I revolutionists in western Europe and proved an absolute fizzle I BOLSHEVISM REPRESENTED At Amsterdam continued the statement the near type of ot Socialists was represented by the so called d free trade unions' unions of Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many with members and the national secret secretariat riat of ot Holland HoIland with members The two organizations organizations together represented out of a total of labor unionists represented These figures accurately I represent the relative force of labor unionism and Bolshevism in the EUrope European Eu EU- rope n labor union movement |