Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — URGE U. S. RUN WIRE LINES [ARTICLE]

URGE U. S. RUN WIRE LINES

Labor Delega'. to St. Paul Convention Call on Wilson to Seize Telegraph Facilities. 1 St Paul. Minn.. June 14. —Resolutions deploring the alleged necessity of having to call a strike of union telegraphers to enforce the recommendations of the war labor board and asking President Wilson to take over immediate control of the Western Union and Postal Telegraph companies, were adopted at the anual convention of the American Federation of Labor. Samuel Gompens, president of the federation, sent a telegram to President Wilson in reply to the chief executive’s recent message expressing appreciation of labor’s war efforts. Mr. Gompers’ telegram said in part: “We wish to express to you our determination to give wholehearted support to the government of our free country in this war to establish principles of freedom that will insure peace between nations. We pledge loyal support and service until human freedom and equity shall be the common right of all peoples,”