River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-02-04
LABOR CHIEFS TO
MEET IN CAPITAL
COMMISSIONER KEEFE ISSUES IN
vITATIoNs FOR A COUNCIL.
GoMPERs IN, THE LIST
Promotion of the Welfare of Working
men Principal Object of Meet
ing to Convene Feb
ruary 10.

Washington, Feb. Limitations
have been extended to more than
score of prominent labor leaders in all
parts of the country, asking them to
participate in the proposed council of
labor" to be held on February 10 at the
department of commerce and labor,
when questions of vital moment to the
wage-earners of the country will be
discussed
1t 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 addressed 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 COM
mitee on arrangements.
To Discuss Unemployed Question.
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 sig
nificance.
1t is declared that immigration fig
ures indicate that much of the immi-
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
threshed out. The conference also will
consider how the Nobel peace prize
which President Roosevelt devoted to
the foundation for the promotion of in
. dustrial peace can be made most eff
| fective"
Other questions which will figure in
the councils deliberations will be as
to the advisability of recommendations
for legislation extending the steam
boat inspection service to include the
inspection of locomotive boilers on in
terstate railroads, and how the divi-
sion of information of the department
of commerce and labor may be admin
istered for the best interest of the
wage-earners generally.
Gompers Gets invitation.
The invitations have been sent to
the following: Samuel Gompers, presi-
dent of the American Federation of La
Dor; w. G. Lee, Cleveland, O., grand
master Of the Brotherhood of Railroad
Trainmen; Warren S. Stone, Cleve-
land, O., grand chief Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers; w. S. Carter
of Peoria, ILL.,, grand master of Brother
hood Of Locomotive Firemen; A. B.
Garretson of Cedar Rapids, Ia, grand
chief Order of Railway Conductors;
Frank T. Hawley, Buffalo, N. Y, presi-
dent Switchmen's Union of North
America; w. F. Yates of New York
city, president Marine Engineers Ben
eficial association; Andrew Furuseth
of San Francisco, president Seamen's
International union; T. j. Dolan Chi
cago; general secretary International
Association of Steam Shovel and
Dredge Men; T. L. Lewis of Indianap-
oils, Ind, president United Mine Work
ers; George w. Perkins, Chicago, pres
ident Cigar Makers International
union; T. v. O'Connor of Detroit,
Mich, president International Long
shoremen's association; James M.
Lynch of Indianapolis, Ind, president
International Typographical union; w.
d. Mahon of Detroit, Mich, president
Amalgamated Association Street Rail-
way Employees; Timothy Aealy of New
York city, president International Bro
therhood of Stationary Firemen, and
Others