The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-08-30
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President Gompers of American FEEDER
alton of Labor and Many Men and
Women Prominent in Great Move
ment to be Aboard Especial

A spectacular cross-country rrn IS
being arranged by organized labor,
headed for the city of Minneapolis,
Mimi, where in convention assembled
the working people will demonstrate to
the world that they are loyal and
steadfast to the nation in its hour OF
severest need.
"Labor's Red, White and Blue Spe-
cial,' as it is known, will leave New
York City on September 2 and passing
through Kenosha will arrive at the
convention city on the morning OF Sep
TENDER 4.
The special will consist, according to
present indications, of at least three
Pullman cars, diner and baggage
car. It will be met in the middle west
by a Pacific Coast section, starting
from San Francisco, passing through
Los Angeles, Salt Lake City and Den
yer.
With less than three weeks prepare
ton, delegations of labor men have al
ready arranged to join the patriotic
pilgrimage. More than 100 will en-
train at New York City, including
bodies from Philadelphia, Newark and
Trenton, N. j., picking up New Eng
land contingent at Albany. Many more
will join at Chicago, including Pitts
burg delegation, while others will climb
aboard as the train progresses west
ward.
Loyalty to the nation, at the very
hour when spurious workmen s and
people s councils are doing their best
to mislead the workingmen, will be the
keynote of the co, ference. Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, will deliver the
principal address. Frank P. Walsh,
chairman of the Industrial Relations
Committee, John Spargo and j. G.
Phelps Stokes will also speak. The
conference will be held in the Auditor
ium, the largest hall in Minneapolis,
ana WILL DC Ill ScSSlou Luz AAoIo tA0A q
week.
The itinerary of the tour is as fol
lows: Leave Grand Central Terminal,
New York. at noon, September 2, ar
irving in Chicago at p m. on Septem-
Der 3, passing through Albany, Buffalo,
Cleveland and Toledo via the New
York Central Railroad. After two
hours say in Chicago the train will
pass over the Chicago and North West
ern tracks and will arrive in MilWau-
kee at p M, at Madison at 10 p. M,
and at Eau Claire at clock the fol
lowing morning.
From Chicago to Milwaukee the train
will MAKE 10-minute stops at each city,
where addresses will be made from the
train The party will breakfast on the
train before the arrival at ST. Paul,
Mimi, at a. m.
The call to the conference is issued
by tho provisional committee for the
Minneapolis Loyalty Conference for
Labor and Democracy, and Las the full
support of the American Alliance for
Labor and Democracy, $50 Broadway,
New York, of which President Comp
ers is chairman; Frank Morrison, vice
chairman; J. G. Phelps Stokes, treas
urer, an Robert Maisei, director. The
American Alliance is undertaking the
work of raising funds for the confer
ence.
The conference call says in part:
"Whatever may have been the causes
of this var at the outset. it has become
clearly a contest between the ideals of
liberty and democracy on the one hand
and the brutal, iron heel of autocracy
on the other.
q in our midst in this crucial hour
are many whose efforts are being di-
rected against victory for America and
America s cause. At present these eff
forts are being directed largely through
so-called workmen s councils which in
no sense represent the American labor
movement and through a so-ealled peo-
pie s council whose aims are in com-
plete accord with the present needs of
the German government.
1t is of prime Importance that at
this iuncture we, whose primary inter
est in this war is the success of democ-
racy and the welfare of all working
people, consider the situation as it af-
feets these things soday. Moreover, we