The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-02-19
UNION LABOR CONFERENCE
Being Held at Washington Upon
Invitation of the Government.

Invitation of the Government.
Washington, Feb. 0.-Prominent
labor leaders of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor and other organi-
cations met in Washington today
at the invitation of government Of
ficials, for a council of labor to be
held under the auspices of the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor.
Questions of vital moment to the
nations wage workers are up for
discussion and the promoters of the
council believe that it will result
in great and lasting good to the men
who do the work which keeps the
wheels of industry revolving.
The subjects with which the coun-
Gil will deal are many and varied,
but the problem of the unemployed
and how and to what extent the
division of information in the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor
can be most helpful to that class,
especially during periods of depres-
sion, is perhaps of chief significance
It is asserted that immigration fig
ures indicate that much of the i'm
migrant 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 threshed out The conference
will also consider chow the Nobel
peace prize which President Roose-
welt devoted to the foundation of in
dustrial peace can be made most eff
fective."
Other questions which will fig
ure in the councils deliberations
will be as to the advisability of rec
concentrations for legislation ex-
tending the steamboat inspection
service to include the inspection of
locomotive boilers on interstate rail-
roads and how the division of infor-
nation of the Department of Com
merce and Labor may be admins
tered for the best interest of the
wage earners generally.
Among those invited to partici-
pate in the deliberations of the coun-
Gil, most of whom have accepted, are
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor; w.
G. Lee, Cleveland, Ohio, grand mas
ter Brotherhood of Railroad Train
men; Warren S. Stone, Cleveland,
Ohio, grand chief Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers; w. S. Car
ter, of Peoria, ILL.,, grand master
Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men; A. B. Garretson, of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, grand chief Order of Rail-
way Conductors; Frank T.. Hawley,
Buffalo, N. Y, president Switch
mems Union of North America; w.
F. Yates, of New York City, presi-
dent Marine Engineers Beneficial
Association. Andrew Furusets, of
San Francisco, president Seamen's
International Union; T. ]. Dolan,
Chicago, ILL.,, grand secretary of In
ternational Dredge and Steamshovel
Men; L. T. Lewis, of INDIANAPOLIS,
Ind, president United Mine Work.
ers; George w. Perkins, Chicago,
president Cigarmakers' Information
al Union; T. V. O'Conner, of Detroit,
president International Longshore-
mems Union; James M. Lynch, of
indianapolis. Ind. president Inter-
national Typographical Union; w.
D. Mahan, of Detroit. Mich, presi-
dent Amalgamated Association
Street Railway Employees; Timothy
Healey, of New York City, president
of International Brotherhood of
Stationery Firemen, and others.
South Dakota is now borrowing
money on it's floating Indebtedness at
seven per cent. and looming money
from its school fund at five per cent.
thus the taxpayers of TIE stale are
losing two ;,e: cent. o. interest IN
large sam. The scope of invest
ment of .'i's sum shoull be en-
larged 50 that the floating debt of
the state Good always oe held by
the cnhnO1 frrd ,,I,io1,