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Show COnPULSORY I ARBITRATIO;i DEIIOllhCED r ; Gompers Objects to Arbl-, Arbl-, tratlon Bills Before New YorK Legislature. NEW YORK, Jaa. S. Compulsory arbitration wa denounced today by Samuel Gompers, preaideat of th America Federation of Labor, ia a peeeh be for th annual meeting of th National Cii federation. Mr. (romper declared that the workeri never would submit to arbitration such" a that proposed by bill now before th New York Stat legislator. "I agree with you a te th desirability desira-bility of preventing a strik," he aaid. "but don't imagine you are going to escape theut by attempting to make perfectly natural activitiea aslawfuL The- attempt to get away from atrikea by the uietboda propoaed is sunplv ths attempt to eoiupress steam or power i a too limited spec. You may do tkat for awhile, but yon will hav aa x-plosion x-plosion from wkick no power eartk i potent to protect, "You may make the stoppage of work illegal, but vou won't atop the assertion of tke right of workers to stop working. You want to get away from tk turmoil resultant from industrial in-dustrial creditors, and I want to join vou ia that, but for heaven' sake doa't burden our lawa or our a.vatem or our live witk conditiona tkat will make our trouble a thousand fold mors." |