AMERICAN LABOUR BACKS THE PRESIDENT

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 59, 3 December 1917, Page 9

AMERICAN LABOUR BACKS THE PRESIDENT

SPIRIT THAT WILL STAMP OUT SEDITION. Mr. Samuel Gorapers, president of the American 'Federation of Labour (whose rc-election was cabled a i^ r davs ago), Mr. olm Spargo,. the wellknown Socialist, and Mr. James Phelps Stokes, the millionaire Socialist, recently returned from the Minneapolis Soc- ■ ialist Labour Conference to announce the inauguration of a country-wido movement to secure the loyalty of Labour to tho Government in its prosecution- of the war. The result of tho Minneapolis Convention has been to square American Labour with the po 1cies of the Administration) and rally the working men in Amcrica to the ontiro' support of tho Government. .1 he result is entirely satisfactory to T SI " dent >V>lson, who is immensely gratified by the attitude adopted by tho great majority of the workors. _ In a * statement Mr. Gompers said : "Wo have hrought out n spirit which will samp out sedition in this countiy and confuse and confound traitors who talk pcace and anti-Americanism, and ■who say that, thev are doing this, for the benefit of the working men of the country. That is a lie, and we arc £oinjr to make the nation Bee thnt it is a lie."