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Show GOMPERS CENSURES SOCIALMBERS Claims Labor's Peace Program Pro-gram Was Obstructed PHILADKLrHIA, Keb. 11 American Ameri-can labor did not leave the peace conference con-ference in Tarls with all It felt. In Justice, Jus-tice, that it ought to have secured, but it left with all that it was possible to get. declared Knmtiel Gompers. president presi-dent of the American Federation of Labor, last night before the l'hlladel-Phla l'hlladel-Phla uhlta Ledger forum on the peace conference. Discussing the labor clauses of the peace treaty and the difficulties met and overcome in reaching decalons upon them, Mr. Onmpers cenaured 8o-clalist 8o-clalist members of the commission on international labor legislation, maintaining main-taining that "they constantly were of assistance to those who were trying to weaken the labor provisions that were written Into Ihe treaty." In defending the granting of a separate vote to each of the British dominions, he declared that they were "more often with progress prog-ress than against It." "It was my experience," he said, "and I look upon it as something of a dependable de-pendable guide, that the votes of the representatives of these dominions and commonwealths were more often with the United States than with Kngland " Pointing out that they went Into the conference aa atate, he maintained that they were entitled to that atatus. 'The fart la In my opinion, that progress is safeguarded by the British possessions having been given the vote," he said. "With but few exceptions, excep-tions, the viewpoint of the American labor movement, constructive, democratic, demo-cratic, uncontamlnated by any of the J philosophies that are coualn to bol-ehevlam, bol-ehevlam, ta ahared only by the labor movements of these self-governing dominions do-minions and commonwealths." |