Evening star., 1921-08-23
HALF MILLION new
MEMBERS DESIRED
A. F. of l. Would Increase
Present Status of 4,500,-
600 to 100000.

National organization campaign
plans to boost the membership of the
American Federation of Labor from
Its present status Of approximately
100000 to 100000 were announced
today at federation headquarters.
Labor day. September 8, which will
be celebrated by organized labor
throughout the country on q wider
scale this year than ever before, ac-
cording to the announcement, will
mark the start of the campaign.
Ten thousand organizers, virtually
the same corps Of workers who dis
tributed non-partisan labor propa-
ganda to all sections of the country
during the primaries and presidential
into service. The same plan will be
followed which was in force during
last years campaigns.
Washington Seat OF Drive,
A Washington headquarters will be
established from which the strings to
all parts Of the country will be han.
died by officials. The entire country
will receive attention from organized
labor on pro rata scale-the organ
izers and volunteer workers being ap-
portioned with a view to handling an
equally proportionate amount Of
work.
The organization work, 1t was an
nounced, will include both augment
ing and Strengthening present organ
lzations in various states and inau-
gurating and placing on foot new
ritory
Expenditures. II the same plan as
last November's is followed, will be
held down to a minimum. The bulk
OF the work will devolve upon unpaid
volunteer organizers and officials of
ganizations.
President Samuel Gompers will tour
the country, taking in all of the
larger cities. He will keep in per-
sonal touch with the organization
work and make the campaign the
primary issue Of the federation dur
ing the fall.
GomDers to Start in Baltimore.
He will start in Baltimore on Labor
day. when he will speak at River
View Park. Here, 1t is expected, he
will sound the keynote for the ad-
vance in organizing work. On the
same day. Secretary Frank Morrison
he will be the guest of honor at a
banquet to be given on the evening
OF September T., by Typographical
Union. No. 10. of Louisville. Mary
ldhu IIilHGES, at TOSlDuFR, No, Will
be addressed on Labor day by James
Lord, president OF the mining depart
ment of the federation. Plans to
have the entire Maryland mining dis
trict join in the Frostburg celebra-
ton have been completed.
In Boston the campaign will be in
augurated by q parade with the building
trades and metal trades pledged solidiy
as hackers. Distinctive floats repre-
senting. telephone operators. motion
picture and stage hands. the actors
Equity Society and Women Municipal
Employees will be in the line of march
according to the announcement.
Fifteen thousand will be In line ac-
cording to reports to the American
Federation Of Labor headquarters
Throughout the country. 1t is re-
ported. similar celebrations win be
staged. One of the initial events
of the campaign also will be an ad-
dress by President Gompers on Sep
,tember Is. when he will speak at
the annual convention of the Anal
gamated Association of Street and
Eletric Railway Employees in Allan
ia, Ga. Twenty-nine years ago on
September Is. President Gompers
called to order In the same city the
meeting at which this organization was
formed.