Denver labor bulletin., 1918-11-02
PAN AMERICANS
IN NEW YORK CITY
FAVOR ALLIANCE
GREAT INTEREST SHOWN
IN MOVEMENT.
Fraternal Union of All Workers on
Western Hemisphere Being Per-
fected; Conference at Laredo,
Texas, November 13.
Especial CorrespondenceJ


NEW YORK, Oct. 2S.-The Pan
American meeting in Harlem Terrace
hall, this city, yesterday, was signal
success as recorded in the local press
and attested by observers who an
swered the call of Santiago Iglesias
and the temporary Pan-American COM
mittee under whose auspices it was
held.
The gathering served to gauge the
tremendous interest already aroused
among the Spanish-speaking organ
lied workers of the East in favor of
the Pan-American movement led by
the American Federation of Labor for
the fraternal uniication of their
brothers of the western hemisphere,
and for which the Pan-American labor
conference at Laredo, Texas, Novem-
Der 13, will be the first step in a series
of future conventions.
Representatives from all the Latin
American republics and Spain affil-
lated to local trade unions crowded the
hall.
That the activity displayed in this
campaign by the American Fedora
ton of Labor and its representative
among Spanish-speaking organized
workers, Santiago Iglesias, has at
tracted wide attention is shown by
the fact that there were in the audi
ence many notable men from Latin
America. including Antonio Villarreal,
well known Mexican leader, and Cen
erals Felipe Angeles and Prida.
Three millions of Americans as
represented by the American Fedora
ton Of Labor" said Inglesias, ARE
behind this Pan-American movement,
which is supported by the organized
workers of Mexico, Cuba, Porto Rico,
Colombia, Chile and several other
latina american countries That is,
the real soul Of the American people
as embodied by the masses of toilers
affiliated to the American Federation
of Labor; not the artificial soul of
profiteers who with their practices
convey to the Southern continent a
wrong conception of the United States
institutions and its citizenry. When
all the peoples on the western hemis-
phere see each other as they truly
are, thru the unification and fraterni-
zation of their organized workers. and
not as they appear to be in con-
ventional situation muddled by hasty
judgments and biased conclusions,
then. and only then, new era will
dawn upon them that will make i'm
possible divergences of interests and
/ bloody conflicts"
This meeting declared for:
/. Organization of a permanent
committee in which should be repre-
sented the workers of Latin American
countries.
.. Unconditional support of the
/ international conference which will
be held at Laredo, and to see to it
that all or majority of the Latin
American nations, thru their organ
lied workers, be represented.
3. The following principles and as
pirations should be advocated at said
international conference:
ta) Establishment of the best
means for the promotion of better re-
lations between the Pan-American
peoples and workers.
(b) An agreement for the mutual
acceptation of organized labor cards
by the trade unions of Pan-America.
(c) To help the attainment of bet
ter economic. political, industrial and
social conditions of the working
masses of the western hemisphere
thru economic endeavor, Legislation
and mutual cooperation.
Id Permanent establishment Of
a Pan American Federation of Labor.
(e) To work to the end that the
| PAN American labor movements should
be represented Mt labor national con-
ventions thru fraternal delegates.
(G To work earnestly for the es-
\ tablishment in New York of a center
of information. promotion and protec-
tion of all Pan-American workers.
/