Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-26 | Page 9 | Gompers Raps Congress Delay

tion! uu rail Failed in Reconstruction, Cost i of Living and Treaty, Says jjj i Leader of Labor ft 1 WASHINGTON, April 26. (By the jWK Associated Press.) Sweeping charges J-1 M that the present congress has failed ill h the nation "with completeness and yj abandon," are made by Samuel Gom- P Jlj pcrs, president of the American Feder- fjfist ation of Labor, in the curront Issue of WJ - tho American Federationlst, llsi jt "America must got rid of its veto ::K?JMVr' congress and elect an action con- ' k f gress,' he said, "Tho 'no' congress jffjj must givo place to a 'yes' congress." m , The labor leader asserts that con- Vm gress has failed on the peace treaty, lI i in reconstruction and the high cost of 11 living, and tnat it also has "failed us 1 in intelligent comprehension of every I great question affecting the lives and welfare of our people." . 'i Sins of Commission. I; ' "The sins of tho present congress," ( he added, "were of commission as well I as omission, as there had been "al- I . most an eagerness to do tho wrong things," the cnactmont of the railroad 1 bill being cited as a "shining c.xam- I i "The blind and bigoted action of I congress in refusing to deal intolll- 1.3 gently with the peace treaty has made . I " it impossiblo for the United States to I manifest the prof&e concerns In these I affairs," Bald Mr. Gompors, aftor as serting tho affairs of the world are tho concern of the Unltod States. m J "On our own continent there is tho mhm same need. For weoks a senatorial sub-committee has been going up and down the country gathering testimony, tho evident purpose of which can be H but to inflame the minds of those who think littlo and take much on faith. At periods all too frequent the United j States is brought to the verge of war j with Mexico. It is not difficult to see the evidences of satisfaction on the court of predatory Interest at each of these periods, nor Is It difficult to discern dis-cern the propaganda which fosters development de-velopment of them. It Is no longer possible to feel with certainty that high government officials have not; been the tools and pawns of those who seek intervention, tho latest term for which Is 'Cubanlzation.' "nostilo to Mnsses." "Democracy must mean equality of opportunity. It must mean tho sovereignity sov-ereignity of the masses. It must "mean absence of domination by a select ru' ing class or caste or clique. "Congress has done much In recent months to Indicate hostility to these principles. Powerful forces in tho United States are seeking to wound or cripple democracy. They do not want equality of opportunity. They want an unfair advantage in the industry of the nation, in the legislatures of tho nation andjn the courts of the nation. "Tho labor movement of America speak.s and It must bo heard. "We will resist with our power the re-election of those who have been false to tho trust which humanity placed in thorn,"