The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-11-13
LABORERS AND LIQUOR
AMERICAN FEDERATION CONSID-
 FRS THE SUBJECT.
Temperance Mass Meeting VIII Re Held in Toronto sunday--Gom- pers Tells of the Courts
 Aefions

Toronto. Ont. Nov. 1z--During the five days the American Federation of Labor has been in session there has been much suppressed speculation as to the attitude the convention might take on the question of labor and the saloon.
 When 1t was announced early in the week that a temperance mass meeting would be held Sunday. under the aus pices of the labor department of the Presbyterian Church, the delegates representing the International Union of the United Brewery Workmen. the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Inter- national Alliance and the Bartenders' International League of America, be- gan to canvass the situation quietly, with . view to learning whether the floor Of the convention.
 Rev. Charles Stelzle, a fraternal delegate from the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and warm advocate of the principles of trades unionism, has been advocating the establishment of 6 temperance brotherhood among the trades unions. and will preside at Sundays meeting.
 Tn the event of an attack by resolu- tfon or otherwise In the convention. the Representatives Of the liquor inter- ests count upon the support of the Cf- garmarkes International Union of America, in whose delegation is Sam uei 0ompers, President of the Federa- tion. It is understood, however. that President Gompers is anxious to avoid debate on the liquor question In the convention. and he was instrumental today in bringing about a meeting be- tween Jere L. Sullivan, representing the Bartenders Union. and MT. Stelzle. They had talk, during which MT. Etelzle told Mir. Sullivan that he com templates an attempt to get trades un. ions to stop holding meetings in back rooms of saloons.
 President Gompers, it Is said, has agreed to lend his support to resoiu' tion urging the erection of labor tenn pies and other places for holding ia- bor union meetings.
 Sundays meeting will be addressed by Rev Mfr. stelzie, John Mitchell, and John B. Lennon. treasurer of the Fed erntion. Mir Lennon is understood to take the attitude that the use of It. uuor by workingrnen affects the rate Of wages because it lowers the degree 0e efffciency of the men, and Mir. Mitchell will discuss the contention that increased wages and shorter hours mean added profits to the sa- looms.
 Committee meetings occupied the majority of the delegates during the greater part of today, following a brief session of the convention this morning. at which MT. Gompers was called upon by one of the delegates tc discuss the status of the present con tempt proceedings as result of whicf MT. Gompers, John Mitchell and Frank Morrison may have to serve terms 1T jail.
 MT. Gompers said the question of ar appeal and the line of defense will be discussed at a conference between the defendants and their counsel. to b. held soon after the convention ad journs.
 MT. Gompers declared that Justic' ! wright was guilty of outrageous con duct In so cruelty excoriating the hon est conduct of three citizens who un dertook to test the law, in imposini 4unusual sentences"