The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1908-12-19
TAFT SPEAKS KINDLY
!. OF ORGANIZED An |! !. j LABOR n
Says Unionism Has Done Maryela
For the Workers and Will
Yet Do More. #
FAVORS AMENDING THE
PRESENT SHERMAN Law
Right of Organization AS Sacred
to the Laborer As to the
Capitalist. :

New York, Dec. 17.-The annual
session Of the National Civic Fedora
ton ; in this city was brought to-
close last night with a brilliant ban
quet, which grouped together. at one
of the tive-score of individual tables,
President-elect and Mrs. William II.
TAFT, Samuel Gompers, president Of
the American Federation of Labor;
! August Belmont, A. B. Garretson, chief
| OF the Brotherhood of Railway Con-
ductors; Melveille F. Ingalls,, express
1dent of the Big -Four railroad; Presi.
dent Seth Low of the federation, and
Mrs. Low; Mr.. and Mrs. Alton B.
| Parker, and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
At other tables at the banquet hall of
| the hotel Astor sat employers and en-
ployes OF many corporations. John
u. Rockefeller, Jr., and Frank B. Kel-
1ogg, who has been prosecuting the
government inquiry into the Standard
| Oil company, were near neighbors,
! though not at the same table An
| drew Carnegie and John Mitchell sat
| side by side. '< :
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