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GOMPERS SAYS A. F. OF L. POLICY IS ORDERLY AND | LA WFUL How England Met Emergency of Great Railway Strike; Notables in Political and Social Life Turned Laborer, BY TRANSFER OF NON LABOR'S RIGHTS SAFE | UNDER CONSTITUTION OF U DEGLARES SAMUEL GOM > ERS ating ‘ autocrats for whom Judge Gary American Federation Is spoke, if they have had their ears American to Its Heart’s |t@ the ground, ought to realize that the world is no to accept such mood the more in the messages from Core,” Says Leader, industrial Hohengollerns of America to-day than it is in the mood to ac- cept the autocratic dictation of the ‘GARY A MERE PARROT.’ Farmer and City Toiler Must Stand United Against Ex- ploiters, He Adds. Hohenzollerns of Germany.” JUST WHY LABOR SEEKS A®- FILIATION WITH FARMERS. “Mr, Gompers,” T asked, “what ts your object in calling a conference of labor leaders and farmers’ organi- ns for December?” se do not ask what is my ob- ick L ject,” said Mr, Gompers, “Rather By Frederick Lawrence. fask'me:to interpret the object of the (Special From a Staff Correspondent) Executive Council of the American of The Evening World.) Fe “atic WASHIN = gene ed railway brotherhoods, of Labor and the affill- The De- YTON, Oct. 27.—"The m ember conference has been called by American Federation’ of Labor 18/ (Wer of the leaders of the American American to its heart's core. Not-|labor movement, not by any one la- bor leader. T am by virtue of my withstanding the blow in the face it regarded as the la-, In fact, | am the labor movement | office generally bor movement lea: merely received from the reactionary minor- ity of the so-called and miscalled employers’ group at the Industrial € the intolerant and un-American attitude of a hand- ful of plutocrats who seek to per- petuate their industrial domination over the people of the United States, the American Federation of Labor will continue in the future as in the past to help uplift the masses of the people to a higher and better life han they have ever known, through methods guaranteed and sanctioned one of Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, in agreement with the railway brother- hoods, have invited the farmers of the United States to meet with them in conference, not for the purpose of starting a revolution, as some of the newspaper headlines might lead one to believe, but for the purpose of combining the great producing forces of the United States in an effort to overthrow the industrial autocrats who are exploiting the producing farmers and the producing working- men for the sole benefit of a few of the people at the expense of the great inference, despite by the Constitution of the United | majority of the people. Biates and through orderly and law-| "The public mind should be dis- da . ~ abused of any misapprehension as to ful methods of procedure. the objects in view. The people of This message was given by Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, to the American People in respohse to the question, “Does organized labor regard the attitude of the employers’ group at the Industrial Conference as a chal- lenge to a resort to force and is or- ganized labor disposed to accept the the United States will surely not mis- trust the intentions of the American farmers. The farmers have no more evil intent toward the people and the Government of our country that had the farmers of Lexington, Bunker Hill, Coneord and Valley Forge. And surely organized American labor will not be mistrusted fm view of what it contributed toward freeing the colo- nies under Washington, the slavos| challenge?” under Lincoln and the world under| Mr. Gompers made it clearly under- | Wilson. | wiood that no resort to violence, no|CHILDREN OF FARMERS AND | revolutionary method of achieving its} WORKMEN FUTURE CITIZENS. aspirations, .is eqntemplated by the} “Organized labor and the organixed organized labor ‘movement. farmers of America have now and “The Constitution of the United! have always haa & community of in-* j teres hey are the two great pro- States affords organised labor &/ qucing agencies of the country, All| peaceful method of redressing 1t8 other agencies are mercly the sales-| grievance: said the chieftain of the} men of the commodities that the farm- labor hosts. “The action of certain! ¢rs and the workingmen and | manufacture. The farmers the © INTERNATIONAL roduce and WOMEN VOLUNTEERS NANDMING On, CANS THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1919, LApY 42.LEN BYSON vrnes FORNISHING REFRESAMENT FOR Ouusenwoos ane OuPmRWece During the recent great railway strike in England men and womer of | high rank joined in the work of mov- ing trains and supplying the needs |of workers marconed®in London by |the tie-up. Mrs. Allen Byson Laurie | organized a canteen for those en- gaged in milk transportation, | milk and other | ported to the Lady Mond was » in Hyde 1 clerks and others performing real labor were Lieut. | Col, Kirke and Lieut ran a railroad engine, Lawrence, ex-Mayor of an ON TRAIL OF SLAYER. Police Say Seller of Drags Stal Frederick Villman, The police of the 104th Street Station declared to-day that they know the Mdentity of the man who stabbed Frod- erick Villman of No, 199 gut 109th Street In front ofa eandy store at No, 1O1nt Street Saturday after- so that he died in Flower Hos- pital a few hours tater, They assert that the murderer wa a seller of narcotica who believed that city in motor trucks, active in preparing k for the stranded Among the men Beresford, who Lord | and London, Avy MOHD PREPARING OOP FOR WORKERS CNABLE TO REACH HOME corporation lawyers and corporation| Workingmen are the. futher: of the officials and bankers and others who| great majority of the children who have | Villman waa an informer againat. the | | not had more time to drink yfor the Waldorf. ‘The others were| Third Detective Dintrict wars alwo | STOUR Of pedilers of cocmine of whieh are not really employers of labor, but] will be the citizens of this Republic in in the wonders of this grand | etective, Lieutenant Comeltug Wil- |decorated with the same order \reat was promised within 24 hours, Eig Ren rEeeat » er (the next generation and the gene! sisobclla. aur Ba elective Sergeant Edgar] A five-hour stop will be made at) who merely represented the leath Fl tone that are to cons. Who. then metropolis. But the coming gen tephens and Detective Joseph An-| Philadelphia, where the King and uphoistered, swivel chair,stock-ticker-| have a better right to plan and guid eral elections in my own country |derson, all of the New York Police] Prince Leopold are to visit Inde watching autocrats of American in-|the future policies of this country| require my presence there. Department, dence Hall and the Hog Island dustry, in voting against collective| than the farmers and the working- | . “L want particularly to com- Then the Queen sent for Mixs Annle : yards, while the Queen will visit | men? Judge, the Waldorf housekeeper who] Bryn Mawr Colle and be greeted Z z 1 Inc a 01 | end the police for their splendid 5 Dargalning at the Industrial Confers xamine and analyze the ballots} | mend the police for thelr splendid | yuae en In charge of the royal suite, | by Misw Helen Taft, its Acting Pres- PERFECT ence, is not going to turn the labor | |that have been cast at elections for) | arrangements and to thank all Jand gave her a brooch set with dia- | ident movement against its friends, num-j|any office, legislative, judicial or ad-| those who have in any way con- nis and pearls and bearing the _ FITTING dered in the thousands, among labor's | ministrative, and you will find that} tributed to the magnificent wel- | Crown of Belgium in gold relief and i ae ay i the farmer and toiler votes have de- ‘ s iy |the letter BE for Elizabeth TEXTILE WORKERS GET - employers who have successfully and cideq the elections. A great majority| methat has been given! 6 At the station the King personally profitably bargained collectively for] of the candidates elected to Stute | n he shook hands with the|pinned the silver Order of the Crown RETIREMENT PENSIONS many years past.” islatures and the United States Con- | = |newspaper men and made a little |on the uniforms of 23 motorcycle copx, M * . ess come from the agricultural dis-| pes. = oe Jand they are the ones who cheered | unsingwea GARY AND HIS COCKATOO'S| from come King Takes ete ht Over City |speech to them. reed tricts, They are elected by the farmer| & lakes Figh er Cl him and the Queen so lustily “RRETTY POLLY" SPEECH. | vote. erie ie! ! yy mene The minority of such ¢ want to express my gratitude for | al to The ie Wort.) ed % 4 ale [act Vie | 3 The motoreyele polleemen decorated | Cag. Pela Mr. Gompers was never in a more! officials come from the industrial cen-| 4S Queen Gets Last View tne kindness of the press of New| wo vache, cctmuenita, NEW LONDON, Conn, Oct. 2%.—For cheerful or optimistic frame of mind.| tres. They are voted office by the} f Fifth Aven York,” he said. “I am a great news: Hoe artin A. Noman, |the first time in the history of Amerl-| H ed he ily ittick workingmen’s vote, The farmers and| ol wth / enue, | Pape r reader and { wonder at the size | Otto . Olive, Travers; Patrol an industry io ff n be | fo laughed heartily at @ witticlam|},_ workingmen hold not only the| ° SS of your papers h It has been said | men Dennis i. . Jolin BE. Ask-|here, the employees A great toxtile | d uttered by a friend, balance of power—they are actually | ia that I was once a newspaper re-|jund, James I ty, Sumnuel J ye made eilgible. ¢ aundry test. “1 will not permit myself to(become|the power. Why should they not| King Albert of Belgium, tireless a8 porter, and I wish it were true, for T) smith jr, Howd Smith, Timothy | Urement.« nsiona embittered," he said. “When I feel|Combine their strength politically and} a motor, took another air Might over!reallze how valuable such training ohn Ochsenhirt, John J The Branded & Armatrong € ; economically to oppose the handfu! . would have been.’ | mund Gibson, Charles Baber, |manufacturers of silk with 2.000 my heart beginning to fill with rage|o¢ money kings who seek to exploit, New York this morning before bid- |" Before leaving the Waldorf the King Harry Shelley, Walter Manley, Jur and women on the payroll, announ qualities. against an adversary I take my gaze|the farmers and the workingmen for ding farewell to the city, decorating| ad decorated five men th wi A. Holland, John J, Donovan, Beot [to-day the Institution of « pension fun away from bim and let it rest on|the sole beneft of themselves? \the Golden Order of the Crown. Four Cooper and John Mesle, for employees Wh een In the ems | dozens of American citizens who had | some object—the carpet, a chair, bare/ IT’S A CONSTRUCTIVE NOT A helped to make him comfortable and of was in Wome ol y nd men of six- walls, In objects such as these I| pESTRUCTIVE, PROGRAMME. | este, and veardins « train with Queen assistant manager of the hotel, Will- formed that the King had conferred | y-fyn are. to be reured, on. pensions find something to study which diverts “ 4 jiam A. McCusker, The first to re- ¢ fold Order of the Crown upon qutvalent to 50 Jer ¢ their aver ) trom hate-Mlled channels| ,, TMs 19 one of the reasons why the| Biizabeth and Fyince Leopold for) coive the decoration was Joseph Bd-\ him and that hie decorations had Jaye yearly earnings the last five my mince om Ree ed channels) farmers have been invited to confer! Philadelphia and Washington, Smith, once a Scotland Yard|mheen sent to Police Headquarters. |yoars of service, In no cane to exceed into sweet and charitable thoughts. | with the working people. The repre-| rhrough the vaulted corridors and | detective, now chief house detective Henr MeQueeney in charge o the '$1,000 a year “While Judge Gary was pronounc-|sentatives of the farmers and the! ying of the Pennayl atatinncat a ; saat entatives’ of ‘the city’ toller|Nalls of the Pennsylvania station a ing the end of organized labor's | represen 7 55 3 : a manized labor's) nave not been representing them.|«bout eleven o'clock the cheers of eiforts to arrive at a peaceful solu-|irney have been misrepresenting|New York cops went out to Seventh lion of the steel strike by his rejec-| 1.0% In the Congress of the United - tion of arbitration, 1 felt a sidden| {hem tm i280 ine are members of|2"2 Highth avenues, and they were Ditterness surge Mrough me, not at as : yelling like college boys ae ane onalig. put’ at the| both, Houses from the agricultural districts and from the industrial dis- ike tricts who take orders from Wall Street, New York, and La Salle Street, Chicago, Their prototypes sit in every State Legislature, in many Governor's chairs and on judicial} benches. These men now sitting in| the seats of the mighty need to be told that certain measures now un- der their consideration are objection- “Phree cheers for the Kin “Three more for the Queent* For this wag the sort of royalty that democrats liked, and they didn’t care knew it. The King had just been shaking hands with news- paper reporters and the Queen had been shaking Hands with. motorcycle feudal system for which he was the spokesman, Then there came to my ears the yoice of one of the cockatoos in the rojunda of the Pan-American Building. The bird was croaking ‘pretty Polly’ as it had been taught to do, The an that filled me left me. I fell a glow of forgiveness for the Judge and of sympathy for him fn bis dilemma who wAtter ail, Judge Gary had done|able to the farmers and the tollers| coppers who, after a hurried consul- nothing more than go from Washing- oe Kee hells platen and eunyaree tation as to the etiquette of the o ton to New York and listen to ‘Pretty | of the liberties guaranteed to the peo-| 0) 4, EN NEA Se ko theoiiae Polly’ from his associates, and then| ple under our free democratic form of | “A#0n, had decided to go through th wore trom New Xork to Waahitee ceremony barehanded. They jerked government | ton and say retty Polly’ to us, And “These men elected by the votes of} off their white gloves and offered what he said to the Indu | the people—by the farmers and the| muscular red hands to the Queen perecns Soe Ree ag |workers —need to have borne Into! wing seized them with enthusiasm repetition of the letter which hé had|¢hem the truth that if they should| 4 i rae gent to the subordinates and sub: | qgeide to betray the truat of the yot-| | “You're w: nderful,” she told them, aidiaries of the United States Steel) ers who elected them, they will/and apparently she meant it, every Corporation at the outbreak of the| counter inevitable political de- | wong girike, His manuscript, from which | ¢ when they .seein seck @a- d . fic read, contained nothing new, noth. | {et WOEH (ey fT ous poli-| While the King was flying over ing constructive. He left the Indus: | ticjans who are not at pres- | Manhatta Brooklyn, Sheepshead tal Conference to go to New York) ent holding ottice, but hope to do| Bay and back to the Columbia Yacht Bae SO sab: so, should be borne the message that | (, sen iisahe ie ny Bankers and other associates on the | 8, Should be Darie the Morera of Club, Queen Elizabeth, insisting that ith or 17th of October, He returned | Qo erica have united for the common | she too should have another look at and Was present at the conference On) Coy of the great majority of the| New York, jumped into an automobile Monday morning, Oct We all 7 d are determined that their knew that he had arranged to be) People, and are de elr | with a few of her personal suite and grievances shall be remedied by their eard In special and important ajn| public servants without regard tothe |#Ped up Fifth Avenue Fe vt ed ie’ dxpeeted “him, power of might when opposed to the) The whole royal party was at the to be the bea of an thought | ¢ i bd right. i od tha Tinlad Aintan Pennsylvania Station before eleven, om Wm 8 constructive vet the peop! Pies fe ‘ ‘ sro street now evangele have no misgivings concerning the | %"d the train pulled out at 11.05, hav ism of Americanism. tarmer-laborer conference, Our whole ing waited for the final leavetakingy, “Tude y toad hig message, effort will be directed toward con-| King Albert issued a “statement to There was no breath of a new and structive rearrangement of the rela-|¢y@ public through his secretary, better day in it He simply voiced tions between those who produce and I Ge 4, tat the time worn and long ago discard. those who profit by production witn-|Max Lee Gerard, saying: ba concept that might is right and out themselves producing anything.| ‘In leaving New York T want Fient Isimaught, ‘The German Kaiser Our deliberations will Be slong con-| to express my appreciation of sight have written such a message structive not destructive lines. ho ” & wit hovea in the daya when the everéeatd of American workingmen| YOUr Dospitality to the Queen, the Prince and myself during our stay here, I regret exceedingly that 1 ser writing messages to Solon the world paid attention, The and American farmers pureuing any Other COURBOR tanh of them were him at thé hotel and the fifth was the men who had guarded ECAUSE of the constantly increasing cost of Gems, Precious Metal and Workmanship it will be impossible for us to replace in our stock at our Present Low Prices. We therefore urge upon prospective purchasers of Jewelry for Holiday Gifts, the advisability of immediate selection, Inspector ohn O'Brien tn command the Ploy of t nm twenty-five Traffic Department Hants: conssoady any article of Jewelry in the E. M. GATTLE & CO. Platinumsmiths Jewelers 630 Fifth Avenue Opposite St. Patrick's Cathedral main attack at Verdun, while suffered in their execution ¢ The first great battle of “attri decisive result. The, foodstuffs were trans. | MUNSING . VW EAR every underwear requirement. made of fine fabrics—fits the form per- fectly—is non-irritating and stands the Your surprise at the moderate price in- creases as time proves the splendid wearing The satisfaction lasts, Read LUDENDORFF’S OWN: STORY in THE WORLD To-Morrow Morning Ludendorff tells to-morrow of the German plans to force a decision in 1916. _ According to the scheme of the General Staff, the German Armies were to make their were to win a decision in Italy. MANY SE SEEKYOUTH GLANDS FROM DEAD | eR |“! Am a New Man,” Says Old Convict Operated On—Tests | With Animals Next, | 6AN , Oats am QUENTIN, a new Cal, Already Oct, MT I can feel nme and my am has returned.” man. the new energy bition That | by ‘J. the old man who ago was given taken from the body of 1 who had Geen hange statement was made to-day ven daye nterstitlal glands om Bellon, {at San Quentin | Prison, As "J." spoke he stretched his arma and flexed them like an athlete, His eyes sparkled and there was Fe | wonance in his voice. “J. still igeom- | fined in the hospital ward of the | prison and y on his cot. He has | been permitted, howe to take short walks Dr, Stanley to-day received the fol- lowing cablegram from Dr. Serge Voronoff, the Paris doctor, who claims to have originate: the gland opera- tion: “Hear with pleasure of your appil- ation of my method. 1 do grafting by dividing glands into many pieces and putting them in their natural piace,” | Credit, however, is given by Dr, Staniey to Dr, G. Frank Lydston of | Chicago for first performing the op- |eration. His report on a successtul transplantation of glands was made ope month prior to Dr, Voronoff's re- port, according to medical records, The prison doctors are receiving @ great flood of letters from men and women in all parts of the United States inquiring concerning the oper- ation. Many ask that the operation bo performed on the writer | The doctors in reply state the oper- ation still is in tts experimental ages. They hope, however, to devel- op it to the stage where glands may |be transplanted from gouts or apes to humana, They have a large colony of guines Pign segregated as to color, and will | experiment » ascertain whether transplanted glands carry with them rie physical characteristics of the jonor, — Sent to Prisom for Lite, Jordon 8. Murphy, 3% years old, ef No. 68 West 125th Street, was sentenced to jail for life by Judge, Noman 6. Dike of the County Court, Bi . to-day aa a habitual offender, y was proved to have served three times in prison before he was arrested for the theft of an automobile, — Wihite awaiting trial he tndertook to a number of mothers who were " persuading them to ling a lost son by, pormusd rs in the Raymond Street send hin money Jail r satisfies completely It’s Frose Deservedly The Largest Selling | Ceylon Packed Tea World the Austro-Hungarian forces Both plans, he asserts, through inadequate reserves. in the West was without ion” peer wie a Bd