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Show 1 : : ' I American Alliance 1 1 for Labor and Democracy M j V . I . I AMERICAN LABOR LOYAL TO ' THE CORE, VERDICT OF BRITISH LABOR MISSION W. A. Appleton, Leader of Party, Tells H New York Union Printers They In-H In-H spire Him to Renewed Effort H - -and Dctcrmtriation. I NEW YORK, April 26 By the time - (his gets into print the British Labor Mission to America will have passed , into history, and the pleasant recol- l lections of the slay of the labor chiefs. H I ! from across the water will be added I il1 to the store of memories of similar H Jj 1 missions of the past. : j But American labor will be pleased v ' to learn thai the Britishers, including; J in their number a member of Parlia- H f menl, the secretary or -the General' I Federations of Trades Unions, and n, H' member of the Ministry of Munitions, !; have been tremendously impressed by Hi J this country's earnestness to do their HI i sharo in the war. Especially has the H) vigorous stand of organized labor be-H be-H hind the government Ml its sharp H 5 i imprint on the minds of the men now 1 i in mid-ocean. H Walter A. Appleton, leader of. the H f party, summed up his growing con- H victions in New York a few days be- t I fore he left, upon being presented by HI t I a beautifully engrossed resolution of I 1 thanks and testimonial passed by I ' j Tvpographical Union No. 6 "Big i Six" of New York. I "I am sure that when my remains I ji come to be analyzed." he humorous - ly told President Leon H. Rouse. .j "they will find somewhere within me I ; l a huge 6.' I have hoard so much of I i 'Big Six' and become so impressed I I I. with its earnestness and zeal that I !i feel that the '6' has become part of f me." I The presentation ceremonies took M place in the headquarters of the un- , ion, in the presence of tho officers H ' and several members of the organ -H ization. Among these were President H I Rouse, Secretary-Treasurer John S. I ' j- O'Conncll, Assistant Secretaries I ' ' James McGrath and Horace Mason i ' and Organizer Theodore F. Douglas. I !' ' Mr. Appleton was "accompanied by I ' Robert Maisel, Director of the Amer-I Amer-I ican Alliance for Labor and Democ-I Democ-I f racy, who has co-operated with of-I of-I i ! j ficials of the American Federation of I ft i Labor in touring the four visitors H ;i I through the country. I, ' "I go back to England with the j firm conviction, gathered from my ob-H ob-H ! servations and from talks with Amer- i ican workingmen. that this nation I '; I "will do its share in the war. I jj j "You have inspired me. When I I : talked to you Now York printers I j f right after my arrival on these H j shores, .1 had only vague ideas con- u I cerning what America was doing, and I where organized labor stood. But h your meeting, when you thronged in I u to hear me and listened so attentive- I Lj ' ly to what I had to say, was an in- : I I I spiratioiu They tell -me that from I I that day on my speeches have been I 8 ! better, that I have grown eloquent. H ' If this is so, it is because of the zeal I i with which you fired me, and which 1 l I could see reflected on your faces I j , and in your outspoken determination I (I to win. I "I shall keep this tribute always, I f i and when 1 am gone I shall pass it I on to my sons. Perhaps they will not I : be too proud to take it from one who i would have gone with them in the trenches in France if he could. This tribute is not for me alone; it is a greeting and a vow from the labor movement of this great country to the laboring hosts of our homeland a vow to help them froe the world from the serfdom of autocracy and sweep back the Hun from France and from Belgium." The framed testimonial, beautifully beautiful-ly embossed in red. white and blue, measures 1Sx24 inches. The text of the resolution is as follows: "Whereas, Mr. W. A. Appleton, secretary, sec-retary, General Federation of Trade Unions, accredited representative of the bona fide trade union movement of Great Britain, has honored us with his presence and entertained us with an instructive and Illuminating account ac-count of tho wartime conditions of labor in that nation; therefore, be it "Resolved, By Typographical Union No, 6 in regular meeting assembled this seventeenth day of March, 1918, that we express to the trade union movement of Great Britain through Mr. Appleton our earnest and sincere determination to continue with our whole effort until this great war is brought to a conclusion that will forever for-ever safeguard democracy for all peoples, peo-ples, and we do hereby request that Mr. Appleton convey the following message to our organized fellow workmen work-men of our allied nation: That the organized trade union movement in the United States is inherently loyal to the national aspirations for a victorious vic-torious war against autocracy as represented rep-resented by the central powers of Europe; Eu-rope; we aro for a war to victory. There can be no turning back; there can bo no premature peace. The world must never be exposed to the wicked machinations of an ambitious monarch mon-arch and his blood-thirsty satellites and. be it further "Resolved, That Typographic.1 Union Un-ion No. G lakes this occasion to reaffirm reaf-firm its loyalty to the government of the United States and to its firm purpose pur-pose to bring the war for freedom and democracy to a victorious conclusion, con-clusion, and declares with President Wilson: "The world must be made safe for democracy." . LEON H. ROUSE, President. JOHN S. O'CONNELL, Sec-Treas. |