Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-10-23
A CONVENTION CALL.
Notice Given of the Meeting of the
American Federation Of Labor.
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII FAVORED.
Senator Morgan Returns from His Trip to
the Islands and Is Enthusiastic Over
Them Becoming a Part the
United States.
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O.-President
Samuel Gompers, by Frank Morrison,
secretary, has issued call to all affil-
lated unions for the nth annual con-
ventiOn of the American Federation of
Labor to be held at Nashville, Tenn,
in the hall of the house of representa-
tives, at ten o'clock Monday morning,
December 13, next The session is to
continue until all of the business of
the convention shall have been COM
pleted. Resolutions of any character
or propositions for changes in the con-
stitution intended for the considers
ton by the convention must be sub
mitted to the secretary at least two
weeks prior to the meeting. The COM
mittee credentials will meet at
Nashville three days previous to the
opening of the convention The call
makes strong plea for full attend
ance of workingmen at this conven-
ton, and states that no convention in
recent years has been called upon to
deal with more momentous questions
than confront the workers of to-day.
The objects of the convention are, in
part, thus set out in the call:
The seventies of the industrial stagnation Of
the past four years have not yet been abated-
The wrongs from which the workers suffer
have not been righted. The injustice imposed
upon our people remains unremedied. The
overworked large mass and the unemployed
many are still testimony to the folly OF our age
The employment of children in our factories
and workshops. though modified. fingers with
US still. and the spectacle is witnessed of idle
men and laboriously busy children. Legisla-
lures are more concerned with the privileges
to the few than with the rights of the many:
while public emblage and free speech
invaded threatened forbidden and the
modern judicial weapon of injunction is utilized
in the effort to crush labor. These rights and
wrongs and others of equal Importance. but too
be considered at the Forthcoming convention,
and such action devised as shall tend to attain
the one and set aside the other
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII FAVORED.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Ex-senator
Morgan and his daughters and F. NJ.
Hatch, the new minister from Hawaii,
were among the passengers who ar
rived from Honolulu upon the steam
ship Belgic yesterday. Senator Nor
gan expressed himself as well pleased
with what he saw and the manner in
which he was entertained while on the
islands. He is more than ever enthu-
siastic on the subject of anneXati on,
and intimated that Hawaii may be-
come part of this country before the
close of the coming year. He says:
Hawaii is certainly going to be a state, but
whether it will be at the time of its annexation
or later remains to be seem Should it be an
nexed a territory, the Hawaiian commits
sioners will recommend that the islands be adj
mitted to statehood and special act of con-
gress would undoubtedly follow. 1 have IA
vored annexation from the beginning, but I
was surprised upon investigating the matter,
to find that the arguments in favor of the
. movement had been underestimated In my
opinion, Hawaii is absolutely Indispensable to
the United States and we must have those
islands The only opposition found that
of few of the Liliuokalani royalists, who have
weight over there. and for the most part
, royaliStS for revenue only.