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Show COMPERS AGAINST LABOR PARTY Says It Would be Detrimental to the Interests of Labor. Washington. Formation of a political polit-ical labor party would be "detrimental "detrimen-tal to the interests of labor and exactly ex-actly in line with that which is most ardently desired by those who seek to oppress labor." Samuel Gompers dec'ared in a letter to William Mitch of Terre Haute, made public here Sunday. Mr. Gompers wrote in reply to a telegram from MiUfi and his associates associ-ates supporting the action of the Indiana In-diana state Labor party in opposing the political declaration of the American Amer-ican Federation of Labor, calling on organized workingmen to elect their friends and defeat their enemies. Mitch's telegram declared in favor of making the fight solely through a labor party. |