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Show LABOR DETESTS STRIKE bill Compulsory Adjudication of Disputes Unthinkable, Gompers Declares NFW YoRK. Jan 81 . Samuel Gompers, veteran president of the American Am-erican Federation of Labor, told dole-gates dole-gates at Monday's session of the Na-llonal Na-llonal Civic federation that organised labor would "never submit" to the creation of n tribunal for the com-pursory com-pursory adjudication of railrosd controversies. con-troversies. Ho characterised the proposal pro-posal as a "resuscitation of a barbarlo condition under conditions of unfree-dom unfree-dom " SUGGESTS TRIBUNAL, i Ills ultimatum was given In answer to a proposal for BUi h a tribunal olr-ed olr-ed by Ren W Hooper, vice chairman and public member of the railroad labor la-bor board In an earlier speech Mr. Hooper d. cbire.l for a competent tribunal tri-bunal to settle railway disputes "Whose decisions shall be enforceable by suitable penalties." The labor leader lead-er in ide an issue of Mr. Hooper's suggestion. sug-gestion. He also demanded to know to tvhom Mr. Hooper wan referring when he spoke of radical and conservative labor la-bor leaders, asking in which class he was listed Mr. Hooper replied he Old not wish to cost reflection on Mr Gonipcrs or the labor movement as o whole, but Insisted there were "man radicals In the movement." STRONG Mi I I ni m Dl Mr Gompers closed his address with the Charge that railway officials Rav the railroud board railroad wugc figures fig-ures $1,250,000,000. in excess of th- total actually paid "The railroads." he said, "are not conducted simply for public service. and have established a monopoly created cre-ated by the government." The labor lender mode strong defense de-fense of the rlpht of railroad workers to strike, saying; "Talk about abolition of strikes Why. wo mlitht as well endeavor to stifle the yearnings and aspirations for a better life, for better conditions In any walk of life. You cannot enforce compulsory labor on one part of the people of the United States and let the oth.-r free." RIGHTING R MI 1 1 lM. The American labor movement, h-. continued, was fighting radicalism, adding that "u propaganda has he. n carried on to destroy the American republic re-public and the American Federation of Labor as a condition precedent to It. Not only is It directed from Russia Rus-sia but from throughout the world." Alleging that there were five million mil-lion unemployed In the United States, he declared It to le h "blot on the escutcheon of our country that nothing noth-ing of a tangible character haa boen done to obviate that awful situation ." The railroad labor board also was attacked by Glenn Plumb, speaking as tho representative of President B. M Jewell of the railway employes' department de-partment of the Federation of I-abor. who declared for the board's abolition. |