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Show LABOR AND LEGION ALLIED Member of Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Decries Efforts of Propagandists. Declaring that no two American movements are more thoroughly allied than the American Legion and organized organ-ized labor, Frank Wenig, a prominent member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Locomo-tive Engineers in Iowa, and senior vice commander of the Legion in that state, decried efforts of propagandists to divert di-vert the purposes of the two organized forces. Vice Commander Wenig's statement was made during the course of a joint meeting of members of the State Federation Fed-eration of Labor and of the Legion in Ottumwa, la. The speaker denounced the efforts of certain interests to lead labor unions (into the belief that the Legion men were willing and would serve as strike-.breakers. strike-.breakers. He cited recent incidents in Denver, Colo., where, in face of a threatening strike of street railway employees, announcement was made that the members of the Legion would man the cars in event of a walkout. jThis, the Legion men held as false "propaganda, emanating from capitalists capital-ists who seek to forestall any alliance I between labor and the Legion. On many questions, declared Wenig, are the two organizations allied. He referred to the prohibition of child labor, concerning which both the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion announced similar programs by action of national conventions. con-ventions. He cited the policies of the two bodies as allied on the immigration immigra-tion question, which he said was a more serious threat against the na-! na-! tlonal entity than any other, labor seeing see-ing in continued entrance of aliens a possible system of wage slavery, and the Legion anticipating a high per cent of people who were willing to live in the nation, but not to fight for it. j Th endorsement of the adjusted com-jpensation com-jpensation bill by the American Federa tion of Labor, Wenig declared, clear j j showed the sentiments of labor In I that direction, while "the 26,000 mil-illonaires mil-illonaires made during the war were the chief opponents of the bill," he i said. i |