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Show GOMPERS IS COMBATIVE American Federation of Labor Leader Is Severe on Colorado. . DENVER. April 18. Consideration of the eight-hour and anti-Injunction measure pending before Congress i? perhaps the most important business of general interest of the quarterly meeting meet-ing of the executive council of the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor, which began in this city today. The Colorado labor troubles will also be thoroughly die-cussed. die-cussed. Referring to the course of Gov. James H. Peabody In dealing with strikes of miners In this State, President Goropers said: "The violation of the fundamental principles of our country ha made Colorado Col-orado the laughing stock of the country, as well as the rtst of the civilized world. Besides, it robs men of the actual rights and protection guaranteed them by the Constitution. It appears-that -if civil law continue to be overridden as it has been in the past, the fight will soon develop from a techincal legal conflict con-flict to a physical one. That would be the most deplorable thing we could -have in a Stata or country with a republican re-publican form of government." |