Evening star., 1909-02-01
LABOR LEADERS WILL CONFER
PROBLEMS AFFECTING WAGE
FARMERS TO BE DISCUSSED.
Meeting Will Be Held at the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor
February 10.

Invitations have been extended to more
than a score of prominent labor leaders
in all parts of the country, asking them
to participate in the proposed council OF
labor" to be held February 10. at the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor, when
questions of vital moment to the wage
earners of the country will be discussed.
Labor Leaders Invited.
The invitations have been sent to the
following: Sampel Gompers. president OF
the American Federation of Labor; W. G.
Lee, Cleveland. Ohio. grand master
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; War
rem S. Stone, Cleveland, grand chief
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
W. S. Carter. Peoria, ILL.,, grand master.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen: A
B. Garretson, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, grand
chief. Order of Railway Conductors
Frank T. Hawley, Buffalo, \. Y, presi-
dent of Switchmen's Union of North
America w. F. Yates. New York city.
president Marine Engineers Beneficial
CISCO president. Seamen's International
Union; T. j. Dolan, Chicago, general sec
tary, international Association of Steam
Shovel and Dredse Men: T. w. Lewis. In
dianapolis, Ind, president of United Mine
Workers; George W. Perkins. Chicago.
Union; T. V. O'Connor, Detroit, Mich,
president of Internatio Longshore-
mems Associations: James NJ. Lynch. In
dianapolis, Ind, president Of International
Typogra phical Union: w. d. Mahan, De-
troit Mich. president of Amalgamated
Association Of Street Railway Employees;
Timothy Healy, New York city. president
of International Brotherhood of Station
ary Firemen, and others.
Subjects to Be Discussed.
II is the earnest hope of those who will
attend this conference that some plan or
plans may be evolved which will promote
the welfare of the wage-workers. The
subjects with which the conference will
be called upon to deal are indicated in
the invitations, which have been ad-
dressed to the heads of the principal
labor organizations by Daniel j. keefe,
commissioner general of immigration.
who was designated by Secretary Straus
as one Of the committee on arrangements.
The problem of the unemployed. and
how. and to what extent, the division of
information in the Department of Com
merce and Labor can be most helpful to
that class, especially during periods of
depression, is perhaps of chief signili-
canoe. 1t is declared that immigration
figures indicate that much of the immf-
grant influx to the United States is due
TO misleading information as to labor
conditions here, and this will form one
of the chief topics to be thrashed out
The conference also will consider ''how
me Nobel peace prize. which President
Roosevelt devoted to the foundation for
the promotion of industrial peace. can be
made most effective Other questions
which will figure in the councils DELHI
erations will be as to the advisability of
recommendations for legislation extend
ing the steamboat inspection service to
include the inspection of locomotive boil
ers on interstate railroads, and how the
division of information of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor may be ad-
ministered for the best interest of the
Wage-earnerS generally.