The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1918-11-15
pAN-AMERICANS
IN NEW YORK CITY
FAVOR ALLIANCE

The PAN American meeting in Har
lem Terrace Hall, New York City
ask week, was a signal success az
recorded in the local press and at
tested by observers who answered
the call of Santiago Iglesias and the
temporary Pan-American Committee
under whose auspices it was held.
The gathering served to gauge
the tremendous interest already
aroused among the Spanish-speak-
ing organized workers Of the East
in favor of the Pan American move
ment led by the American Fedora
tion of Labor for the fraternal uni
fication of their brothers of the
Western Hemisphere, and for which
the Pan-American Labor Conference,
convened at Laredo, Texas, last We'd
nesday, November 13, will be the
first step in a series of future con-
ventions.
Representative 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
tion of Labor and its Representatives
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 Villa
real, well-known Mexican leader, and
Generals Felipe Angeles and Prida.
"Three millions of Americans as
represented by the American FEEDER
alton 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
Latin Amer lean countries. That is,
the real soul of the American people
as embodied by the masses of toilers
affiliated to the American Fedora
ton of Labor; not the artificial soul
of profiteers who with their prac-
tees convey to the Southern con-
tinent a wrong conception of the |
United States institutions and its
When all the peoples on
the Western Hemisphere see each
other as they truly are, through the
and determination Of |
their organized workers, and not as
they appear to be in a conventional
situation muddled by hasty judg-
ments and biased conclusions, then
and only then, a new era will dawn
upon them that will make impossi-
ole divergencies of interests and
bloody conflicts"
This meeting declared for:
l. Organization Of permanent
committee in which should be rep
'esented the workers of Latin
American countries.
II. Unconditional support of the
Conference which will
,e held at Laredo, and to see to it
hat all or a majority of the Latin
American nations, through their or
yanized workers, be represented.
III. The following principles and
SEPARATIONS should be advocated at
aid International Conference:
(a) Establishment of the best
means for the promotion of better
between the Pan-American
'eoples and workers.
(b) An agreement for the mu-
ual acceptation of organized labor
ards by the trade unions of Pan
america. I
(c) To help the attainment of {
etter economic, political, industrial
nd social conditions of the working [
masses of the Western Hemisphere t
trough economic endeavor, legisla-
ion and mutual cooperation
I'D Permanent establishment of i
Pan-American Federation of La {
or. |
(e) To work to the end that the c
an American labor movements c
Mould be represented at Labor Ma t