Show POINDEXTER FLAYS I PROGRAM OF A. A F. F FI L. L LI i UTICA N. N Y T. T Feb 13 13 Charges Charges that behind the announced plan of ot the I American Federation ri of ot Labor to ob obtain obtain obtain ob- ob tain the election of a congress and anda a a president favorable to its policies ex existed existed existed ex- ex isted a sinister movement of ot a small coterie of ot labor leaders who have hav grown powerful by the contributions they have levied upon labor to set up upa upa upa a government within a government were were made here last night by United States Senator Miles Poindexter of ot Washington in an address before the Utica Republican club AUTOCRACY CHARGED The farmers and laboring men of ot America he asserted have in every crisis been the great bulwark of ot our our I free institutions and they will not follow fol fol- low the mistaken leadership which would place the government under the despotic control of ot government within the government This government government government gov gov- within the government is not ruled by labor but Is an autocracy of ot a afew few leaders leaders' who wh not only Impose their will upon labor itself but would extend it not only by the ballot banot but by strikes and starvation of ot the en entire entire entire en- en tire people of ot the United States It is obnoxious as the m invIsIble isible government against which the people protested in 1912 i I LEGAL BUT DANGEROUS There is no question of ot th the right of the Ameri American an Federation of ot Labor to secure control of ot congress and of ot the pr presidency by way of the ballot banot box If it it can can do so so l In accordance with the proclamation It has just issued It will willbe willbe willbe be an evil for the United States and most of ot all for labor itself if it any class in this thIs' n nation tI n whether employers or In Industry capital or labor should succeed in any such program but that Is one of the perils which the nation must face as as the price of ot free tree government DISPUTES GOMPERS In Mr Gomp Gompers rs accuses congress h he continued but is not specific in hi his complaints On the contrary the announcement announcement announcement an an- states that all of ot the es essential essential es- es legislation in labors labor's bill o ot of grievances of f 1906 waS waS' was enacted enacted This proclamation states that the free fred re In institutions in- in of ot the country are menaced but the only specific reference is to the proposed antistrike legislation Th The right to throttle the transportation o othe ot the nation on which the lives of the people depend Is not one of ot our free institutions' institutions i |