Seattle, Oct. 6.
The Executive Council of the American Federation of Labour, in its annual report yesterday recommended that the United" States id Russia "without the slightest pretence that the two nations are or can friends."
The annual report stressed that "Russia is an unwilling ally of the forces of Democracy in this war. Her present friendly gestures to Britain and America are dictated by desperation and hypocrisy."
The group proposed that labour work for social insurance of shorter hours be, after the war, to help the plan of the "Democratic post-war world, in which peace must be combined' with social justite."—United Press.
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