THE SAFE WAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10851, 17 March 1921, Page 6

THE SAFE WAY

AMERICAN LABOUR FEDERATION’S INDEPENDENCE. AIR GOMPERS EXPLAINS. Ausrmtia" an ! V. V. '’-.h’" (Received Alarch 16, 9.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 10. * Air Samuel Gompers (president of the American Federation of Labour), In a letter to the International Federation of Trade Unions announcing the American Federation’s seveijaJice or the relations with the international hodv because of its radicalism, points out” that American workers call be benefited little, if nt all, by labour movements in other countries. '*Aet we shall be glad of the opportunity to ©o-operate with the toilers of all lands, but we must decline to bo part of, a movement undertaking the destruction of the American labour movement or the overthrow of the United States Government. We shall join however, regardless of the policies, and theories for which various national movements may decline in their own countries, if the International Fedora* tion vouchsafes and guarantees* the autonomy and independence of the American Federation of Labour.”