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Show GOMPERS HEARS Of SLAUGHTER Doesn't Think Lewis' Mess-age Mess-age Could Have Caused Trouble was ffsasi ss; day on th Amrr,cu- commenting to- ' 3E said mine tPpUb,M "-rin, MllBS)g aK PMi4nt Lewis- mcs. , report, from Herr.n bTfe P-!2,nt GoniPrs of the American Federation of Labor udd that a. he understood from preu roporte from In 5? thot ,,u" firln first came S hit Ph. "7 s,'" kade. and v ,. lh,.n mat the miners returned the fire Organized labor' SUid Gompers 1 OOe. not countenance anv Urh not ri-orn either side." "Thr strike is on far too high a -dJiio. ' added Mr Gompers. ' for vio- ncc to have any place in it Commenting on reports that a me.,. JK-e from President Lewi of h. ,..i ten had been received at iln-nn t-rminK th. miners at work thet.. as , common strlk- breakers ' Mr ;orn-p-rs laid he was "confident that the letter did not start the trouble." and he added, ' there was something .lie behind it." -oo |