Show federation not fighting smoot president gompers of the american federation rede ration of labor and james dun can first vice president said rela tive to the dispatch that the federa tion was endeavoring to prevent the appointment of senator smoot ot of utah on the immigration committee that if it such an endeavor was being made it was without the official sane tion of the federation they could not undertake to prevent they said any person affiliated with the federa tion from canvassing on any ques tion in which he had personal interest |