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Wilson Is A?ked
To Drop Manly
As Conciliator
New Jersey Manufacturers
Charge That He Promotes
Bolshevism and Demand
He Quit the Labor Board
Speech Inspires Censure
Address at Atlantic City Is
Denounced as a Plea for
Overturn of Government
NEWARK. N. J.. June 11.?Charges
that Busil M. Manly, joint chairman
of tkc War Labor Bor.rd. hns been
snreading Socialist propaganda and
promoting Bolshevism, were made to?
day at a special session of the Manu?
facturers' Council of New Jersey. A
i-ablegram declaring Manly unfit to
hold office and demanding that his
resignation be ruked for w.l sent to
President Wilson.
The action followed nn address br
Kirk Brown, second vic-. pre.-ident of
?.he council, ?? ho charged that in a
.-peech before the National Council on
Social Service held at Atlantic City on
June 3 Manly had "put forward a
?>iea for thc denruction of the Ameri?
can form of government."
The cablegram to President Wilson
rcacis:
"Basil Manly, joint chairman of
the National War Labcr Board. by
his intemperato utterances at Atlnn
Jtic City has shown himself incapable
, cf properly di^charging the duties of
', his important office. His words are
a direct incitement to dieordcr. We
respcctfully rcquest that you ask his
resignation."
Denounced in Speech
"The idiot who rocks the boat, '.'nr
'col who shoot? with an 'unloaded' gun
'and the criminal who yeils 'Fire' in a
jcrowded theatre are innocent. babbling
? hildren compared with ihe man who
pt this time invites and enourages
?ulustrial violence and dirorder." said
Mr. Brc. n. He then cited this e:c
;ract from Manly's speech:
. "Unless step? aro taken to bring
, about a better understanding be?
tween labor and cap'tal and estab?
lish a basis for industr al prorrres.-,
strikes and mass '.neetir.g- will be
c.-illcd within a year beside which
j all former disturban.es will seem
1 insignificant.
" "We are about To en'ev a period
of the most acute ind istrial con
troversy the American nation has
?j ever known. ' make no threat that
\ Boishevism is about to sweep the
' United States. Tlr.' American labor
movement will not co Bolshevist ur.- j
\ le?. \* is driven to that course by |
the goading of the selfish and un- ]
enlightened capitalistic agencies."
Carries Government Frank
"This is a piece of Socialistic prop- i
aganda pure and simple. o:c?pt that
part which is pure Bolshevism," de?
clared Mr. Brown. "I? is being spread
under the frank of the \'::tir>nal War
Labor Board at the expense of the'
^ peopie.
, Further statements attributcd to Mr.
- Mnnly were then quoted by the speaker. j
These were that the espionage act
. was "bad enough under war condi- '
. tions," and that it ought to b. repealed,
1 that some states. backeci by "predatory
interests," are seeking to put through
'. icious legislation to curb free speech,.
and that the 66th Congress is the
"least enlightened, the most reaetion?
ary Congress this generr.tion has
known."
* Mr. Brown said that Mr. ?lanly'_
reference to the espionage act was
worthy of Lenine, Trotzky or Bern*
atorff.
He continued, "Does Mr. Manly
.' speak for the President when he says:
"'1 do not doubt, therefore, that
when the President return:; and
linds.the nation confronted rs it
?rems now inevit.able that it w 11 bc,
with actv.al or impending industrial
- controversies which threaten na
i tional stagnation, he will turn ' <
the device which has prove 1 so
effectivf- in England r.r.d summon
4 frst a small conference of the out?
standing leaders of American labor,
the great financiers who control
'ndustrial capital, to be followed by
a great industrial congress embrac
ing leaders from all industri.-s and
from al! sections of the country.'
Scents Plea for Soviet
"A few days ago tTjere were attempts
a' assassination hy bombs made in
eight cities, and a month earlier ther
attempts made through the medium of
the rnails to murder Americans who
have the courage to speak and do for
the right. Is it unreasonable to be
lieve there Is some connection between
'hese? Are they not cause and cf
! feet?
"Is this what is meant when Mr.
Manly spcaks of the President upon
his return finding the nation con?
fronted 'with actual industrial con
troveruies?' Are we being prepared
for a Soviet government?"
Mr. Brown is president of the Con
densite Company of America, Bloom
' eld, N. J. Hi:. motion to demand Mr.
Manly's resignation was adopted unani
moualy.
Trouky Knows Y. M. C. A.
Encountered It in Halifax Jail,
He Tell* American
Jerorne Davis, Y. M. C. A. worker,
told an audience at Rand School last
?'g'nt of calling on Lcon Trotzky in
Petrograd about eighteen months ago
for authorization to draw 1,000,000
'obles of "V money from a bank.
"You cam* into contact with the Y.
?.C, A. in America, didn't you?" Davis
*?>d he asked the Bolahcvik Minister
?t War.
"Y?e," Trotzky replied, "in jail at
??ufax."
Woum. Against Continuing
U? S. Empioyment Service
Washington, Juna 11,-By a vota
? iin to 2 the Houae today rafusad to
?n?truet ita conferraaa on tha urgent
J^itncy bill U> ?ee??t tha $272,000
? li4*$ h* th* *???*? *** contlnu
2Sl Jtffr*?**1 Bmpl*lrm'Bt *?***?
French to Join General
Labor Drive June 14
Rioters Drive Passengers Out
of Train, and Upset thc
Coaches
PARIS, June 11.?The meeting of the
executive committee of the General
Labor Federation last night, at which
important action was expected to be
taken. reached no decision regarding
current strikes, merely fixing June 14
as the date upon which a joint move?
ment will be imtiated with the British,
Italian and Belgian labor organiza?
tions.
Generally, the strikes have been most
orderly, but yesterday afternoon strik?
ers stopped a train on the Paris-St.
Germain light railway at Gourbevoie.
They forced the passengers to alight,
overturned the cars, set fire to them
and made their eseape. The service
01' the railway wns continued to-day.
The umc.n officials declared the at?
tack on the train was the work of
individua'.s and not of the organiza?
tion.
The newspapers say that if the
miners and registered seamen obtain
their demands it is possible that the
General Labor Federation will not call
a general strike of the two unions.
Politics and Labor
Will Not Mix, Says
Commission Report
Industrial Conference Board,
Giving Survey of Europe,
Depreeates Legislative
Interferenee in Disputes
Solution of the wor'.d-wide labor un
rest problem rests largely upon thc
separation ol' politieal and industrial
issues, according to a statement issued
yesterday by the European commis?
sion of the National Industrial Con?
ference Board after a meeting at the
Hotel Astor. Thc full report of the
commission, which has just returned
from Europe, will be issued later. The
statement yesterday was given out by
Charles W. Asbury, chairman of the
sommission, and contains some gen
2ral conclusions, based upon the corn
aiission's visit to France, England and
The assumption that the present re?
lations between capital and labor can
be reorganized by legislation is erron
eous, according to the statement, and
the studies of thc commission in Eu?
rope show that "legislative enactments
have not only njt quieted discontent,
but have really eggravated it by in
ducing ;> hi'.bit of mind which leans
on the h >ne of new aids outside of in?
dustrial efficicr.cy."
in England, says the statement, the
determination of the labor element to
bring about radical changes is strong
er than in France or Italy. The radi
r.als and the more conservative type of
union leaders are engaged in a con
test <"or the leadership of tne labor
organization?. ln addition to this
Struggle within ?,- rank? of tho
unions here i.i a conflict between la?
bor i..ul c.'pital in gjneral over higher
\-;.gor. and t le control of industry.
The r.ationalization and sociaiistic con?
trol of p.l! industrh*: undertakings is
the object at which the chief English
labor leaders arc aiming, says the
statement.
Thc British government favors the
inclusion of all workers in the unions.
de.jlaring it is advantageous to deal
with a representative body. Employ?
ers, on the other hand, allege that the
government, from politieal motlves,
yields to thr demands of organized
labor at the expense of the employers.
Thc French government, it is set
forth in the statement, also has set the
machinery of politics in motion in be
hatf of l'ibor issue;;. The passage of
the ,eight-hour law in France, says thc
statement, was politieal expediency,
and the employers issued a printed
protest against it, although they were
represented as accepting the wisdom of
a shortcr working day. The protest
pointed out that a shorter working day
would draw workers to the factories
from the fams and so cripple agri?
culture.
France ha^ no unempleyment prob?
lem, nnd the majority of workers are
orderly and do not belong to labor
union . While speculative socialism
ha: a large. vogue, real Bolshevism is
nt expected to make hoadway in
France, Hays thf statement.
ln Italy the unemployment question
is growing because of the government':-'.
unemployment. donations, which are
declared to encourage idleness. The
recovery of industry in Italy is being
held up by lack of coal and raw mate?
rials. In turn, these are withheld be?
cause credit is not available.
Besides Mr. Asbury, the commission
includes S. Pemberton Hutchinson,
president of the Westmoreland Coal
Company; L. Laurence Laughlin, eco?
nomic adviser of the National Indus?
trial Conference Board; Oliver S. Ly
ford, vice-president of the Santa Clara
Lumber Company; Loyall A. Osborne,
vice-president of the Westinghouse
Electric and Manufacturing Company,
and William H. Van Dervoort, presi
dent of the Root and Van Dervoort
i Engineering Company.
Anti-British Efforts
Fail Here, Says Thomas
J. H. Thomas, British Labor leader
and Parliamont inember, who came to
} the United States last month for a
j rest following strenuous work in help
i ing to avert a general strike in Eng
i land, declared last night he was con
! vinced that propaganda exhibiting
| jcalousy of Great Britain did not re
flect real American opinion. It would
Interest Americans, he believed, to
know that the same sort of arguments
were used "by jingoes on thc other
side" to stir up fccling among British
ers against this country.
The overwhelming mass of the Brit?
ish people, however, appreciated what
j America had done in the winning of
I the war, Mr. Thomas said.
Though he came here on no mission,
' public or aemi-public?much less to
? attempt organization or an interna
? tional strike against war, with which
; he said hit had been credlted in some
: quarters - the British leglslator as
' serted he had observed the efforts
I of radicals to spread the doctrines of
Bolshevism, which long ago were
recognized in Great Britain as "a far
greater danger than militarism as ex
?mplifted hy Germany." Ha advocated
eooi heads to treat tha menace, which
ha aaid "unfortunately appears to hava
goitan on tho nervas of the peoplo."
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