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Show 'America Wonderful Lesson to People ; .of Entire World1 CHICAGO. Nov. S "Wo have come j back to our country thoroughly convinced con-vinced that our people and our government gov-ernment stand out as a wonderful object ob-ject lesson to the peoples of the whole world," declared Samuel Gompersjjto-night Gompersjjto-night in his "report to the American people" on the work of the labor mission mis-sion to Europe. ! Speaking at a huge mass meeting, the president of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor re-Iterated that American Ameri-can labor stands pledged to the last man, to the last drop of blood, to defeat de-feat Prussian militarism and, amid applause, declared that in Europe the spark of freedom had burst into a flame that has sounded the death knell of kings and autocracy throughout the world. After referring to the declaration adopted by American labor at Washington Wash-ington in March, 1917. "insisting on conditions of labor and freedom during dur-ing any war" and pledging support to tho government, Mr. Gompers said: "I merely wish to call your attention atten-tion to the fact that at the London labor intor-allled labor conference of September, the American mission proposed pro-posed and the conference adopted the declaration, not in tho same words but in the same sense as adopted by American labor more than a year and a half ago." Bolshevik Drcss Denounced Mr. Gompers sharply criticized what he characterized as the pro-German and Bolshevik press of the allied countries, declaring that every effort of the mission was the target of those propagandists. "In Italy, for instance, this press published us as frauds and not representatives rep-resentatives of American labor. We replied that we represented four mjl-llon mjl-llon working people, and the Avante, literally translated into .English, the Advance Bolshevlki, pretended Italian official socialist paper, said: " 'Well, Mr. Gompers may represent four million workers, but he represents moro millions of dollars.' To which I replied . " 'If I represent dollars no one has yet accused me of having received German dollars!' " |