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Show 'LABOR PEACE' PLEA RENEWED . President Says. National Unity Demands if CINCINNATI, Oct 3 UPV President Presi-dent Roosevelt' renewing his appeal ap-peal for, labor peace, .told the American Federation of Labor today to-day that for national unity the A. F. L-C I. O. negotiations he sponsored last February "must be continued" until a settlement is reached. In a message to the federation's fifty-ninth convention, he president presi-dent said "These are trying days" and urged the peace committees of the rival labor groups to negotiate negoti-ate a peace between them for the sake of "national unity." The - negotiations begun last Msrch with a momentous conference confer-ence at the White House were broken off early in April and in June CIO. Leader John L. Lewis announced that peace negotiations with the A. F. L. were "impossible": "impos-sible": that peace as such was secondary sec-ondary to C I. O.'s primary purpose pur-pose of organizing the unorganized. unorgan-ized. In requesting that the negotiations negotia-tions go on. Mr. Roosevelt said: "If It Is hard to continue. It Is all the more a challenge to the members and leaders of these labor bodies to their capacity to serve the workers of America to their capacity to put aside pride and self advantage in patriotic service for national unity in this time of trouble and distress." "And so I sk you." the president's presi-dent's message added, "as I shall ask the congress of Industrial organizations or-ganizations In Its convention a little lit-tle later, to continue wholeheartedly wholeheart-edly and generously the search for an accord. "The me nand women working dally In the mills, mines, factories and stores and in the transports, want this accord. "The American people want It and will hold In honor those whose Insight courage and unselfishness can effect It." It was Mr. Roosevelt's strongest public plea for an end to the four-I four-I year-old labor war. |