The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-06

, y. l.. Niles, waiter BenneCt, y. II.
Case. N. R. Hogg, I. S. Harding, E. G.
Porter, Fred Mccullough, A. J. Nc
Clure, and E. ]. Popp, all of Carpenters
No. 131.
Georgetown-Lee Strandstorm, the
Building Laborers, No. 110; F. w.
Kinney, Carpenters, No. $50.
Tacoma-W J. Bradford, BARRIERS;
Charles Perry Taylor, Typographical
Union No. 17O D. A. Maulsby, Trades
Council
Bellingham-Fred Hudson, Central
Labor Council; G. H. Gray, Typo
graphical Union.
Everett-J. E. Campbell, Trades
Council; Clarence Folsom, Charles
Knecht, and E. P. Marsh, oil of the
Shingleweavers Union, No. 2.
Organizer C. o. Young, of Tacoma,
is also registered at headquarters.
AT o'clock this evening an infor-
NAL reception and smoker will be CIV
en- by the Commercial club in the club
rooms, at which the visiting delegates
will be guests of honor. Short talks
are to be made by President F. w.
Kaser, of the club, and responses by
officers of the federation will be made.
Many questions of vital import
ance to laboring men of the city are
to be introduced at the meetings of
! the federation, and as all sessions are
to be open to the public, those inter-
| ested will be enabled to listen to tho
arguments presented for or against
the respective measures.
Strong resolutions will undoubtedly
| be adopted denouncing the contempt
proceedings instituted against the CT
| ficers of the American Federation Of
| Labor, which resulted in the sentenc-
| ing of President Samuel Gompers,
Vice President John Mitchell and Sec
| retary Frank Morrison to Jail for al
legged violation of a federal court in
| junction. 1t is stated that there will
| be no opposition whatever to these
resolutions, and it is probable that the
occasion of their adoption will be
| marked by some of the strongest
speeches of the convention.
In his address to the unions, issued
! the first of the year, President Cot
terill, says:
'The growth of the organization
during the quarter just closed has
been very marked. The following or
ganizations have affiliated since last
report: Steam Engineers, Sheet Met
| al Workers, Bartenders, Everett; Gar
ment Workers, Horseshoers, Retail
| Clerks, Seattle; Shingle Weavers,
Steam Engineers, Olympia; Printing
Pressmen, Bellingham; Bartenders,
Federal Labor union, Teamsters, Spo-
| Ia q
Painters, Sheet Metal Workers, Wo-
mans Label league, Tacoma; Building
LIaborers. Georgetown. The Woman's
Label league of Seattle has withdrawn.
"Since the last quarterly letter was
issued, our able leaders in the Ameri-
| can Federation of Labor-President
! Gombers, Vice President Mitchell and
| Secretary Morrison-have been SEN
fenced to Jail for contempt of court
in the now famous proceedings through
which the strength cf the American
| labor movement is sought to be bro
ken.
Let us, by our personal loyalty to
our cause, our zeal in It's work, and
| our high purpose for the future show
cur ever-increasing love for our trade
unionism, the bulWark of our liber-
ties" it.t-
The big banquet to be given in Odd
Fellows temple, Friday evening, prom
ises to be an event of more than pass
ing briliancy, elaborate arrangements
having been made by local union men
for jolly social evening A visit to the
state pententiary and a trip around
the city on the electric cars visiting
| MI Of int oct
being considered, and representatives
of labor bodies throughout the state
are assured of right royal entertain
ment while guests Of Walla Walla's s
organized labor.