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Show GOMPERS EXPOSE Hi FALSEHOOD Denounces Story Widely Circulated Cir-culated in Belgium as Contemptible Con-temptible German Propaganda. Pro-paganda. ST. PAUL. Minn., June 11 - Repl ' ing to members of the Belgian labor mlssldo which delivered Its message to tho American Federation of Labor ai its convention here today. Samuel Lumpers, president, exposed a fain, hood widely circulated . in Belgium b German propagandists. 'Through the insidious rropagandn ; of Germany," he said, "there was issued is-sued b the authority of the propagandist propa-gandist school in Belgium a statement attributed to me and expressing what purported to be the view of organized , labor In America, to th effect that 1 was satisfied Belgium was not actually actual-ly a people of its own growth, neither racial nor national in character and that it would please me if the Belgian people would consent to division of their country, part of it to go to France and part to be held by Germany, Ger-many, with the question of Alsace-Lorraine Alsace-Lorraine held in abeyance. "These are tho peace terms described describ-ed as the ones I held out for the term ination of I he war. "Those who know nie, know what an absolute fabrication It was. and 1 took the earliest opportunity of repudiating re-pudiating it and stamping it with the contempt such a falsehood required " oo Slavey "Pleaso, mum, the ccol ra-UoQj ra-UoQj has come. There are 31 little lumps that's U) for the drawing room and 10 for the dining room and j0 for the kitchen. If you pleaae, wJ' j shall 1 do with lump over?" ' |