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Show NEW PROPOSALS I STAND FIRM FOR INCREASE Would Make Wilson Member of Federation of Labor and Cancel All Strikes. SITUATION IS PERILOUS Foundations of Free Democracy Democ-racy Threatened; Industrial Truce Recommended. m w york. sppt 16. Proposals that the president of the United States bp made a member of the American F deration of Labor and that all i strikes now In progress throughout the country' be Immediately cancelled In order to meet the present "perilous situation" by which "the foundations! of our free democrdtir government are threatened," are contained in a rora- J munlcation sent to President Gompers and the executive council of the American Am-erican Federation of Labor by tne "League of A. P. of L. members for I partnership and industrial democracy," which was made public here today The league was recently organized b John J Pierce and Isadore Epstein who were members of a special com-'mittee com-'mittee appointed by James P. Holland, i i president of the State Federation of I Labor, to investigate industrial condi- 1 1 tions. The report ol the committee I : which was published on Labor Day. , recommended an industrial truce fori six monihs during which all strikes' ( were to be called off The report was promptly repudiated l President Holland Hol-land who discharged Epstein and j Pierce from the committee. NEW HAVEN'. Sept. 16 Nowb I Writers on the three afternoon nev .-. papers here were standing firm toda ; In their disagreement with the pnb-1 pnb-1 1 Ushers oer a wage scale and as jres-i jres-i terday busied themselves with their own newspaper. In tile n spapi r offkes the mantg-; mantg-; ing editors, editorial writers and yd- vertismg staffs were covering assign -i ments and handling "copy" with the Bame energj that thej showed jrester i day. The publishers have made no i reference to their position in theli ' J itions. I Seven Propositions. I Seven propositions are contained In the pr. isent communication, the first and second of which call for the future election of all executive union offiicals, from the president of the American ! Federation of Labor down to the ad-' mlnlstratlve officers of locals, by di-j re i secret vote of the union membership. member-ship. At the present time the general . rule is for election by delegates. Phi third proposal r. quires that no I salary be paid to any local union official offi-cial during the pendancy of a strike i by his union. ; Under the fourth the president of the American Federation of Labor is 'given authority to suspend any strike , when, in his judgment, "the welfare - of the government or people of the ; I United States or any state or munici I pa I it requires such action The inclusion of the president of the 1 1 United States in the ranks of the . American Federation of Labor is dealt with under the fifth heading. It is proposed that he become automatically, au-tomatically, during the term of his of-, of-, j flee, a member of the executive coun-Jcil coun-Jcil without vote, and shall hae author-Ity author-Ity w ith the consent of four other mem-jbers mem-jbers of the council, to suspend specifically specifi-cally mentioned strikes during a period of national emergency. The existenc land duratiton of such an emergency is I to be decreed by presidential proclamation. procla-mation. The authority to call a general strike j involving more than oue industry Is vested soleh In the executive council "f tin- American Federation of Labor i under the sixth provision and by the seventh the power of the couneii is further fur-ther extended to enable it to remove 1 an elector or appointed officer of any international or local union, state federation fed-eration or affiliated organization. Perd Faces United States. In urging these proposal?, the league I says: United States is confronted with a i perilous situ.Hiun which is without pre cedent il Industrial conditions are not I very soon charged for the better there v ill be a widespread misery among the j l people of the United States and those, i of ihe w ar stricken European conn tril E The situation Is so serious that : the inundations of our free democratic form of governmem l(re threatened. In our opinion the one way to relieve the world of her misery is to rid her of! hi r demolished countries, give employ-ment employ-ment to her hundreds of thousands of idle mn and set her on her feet eco- j nomically. ' After referring to the need of increased in-creased production as the onh method of solving the high cost of living, the' I communication declares lhat while1 many strikes have been necessary to , bring unjust employers to terms, "we I also strongly assert that there have! been a great many strikes which were, 1 uncalled for and should not have been ordered. We hold that during these 'uncertain times the union which goes on strike without provocation of the imost extreme nature is guilty of moral I treachrr to the Kovernraent and po i pie of the United States and of human conduct toward the Struggling people of Europe's helpless countries " The letter closes with a rerommen-dattlon rerommen-dattlon that the president and executive execu-tive council of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor take steps to caDcol and suspend all strikes now in progress in the United States and to prevent the1 calling of future Strikes unless imper atlvely necessary for "such reasonable lime as President Wilson may require to effect a reduction in the cost of liv ing." oo |