The Connecticut labor news., 1921-04-22
Sam Gompers, 71 Years
 Young, Marries Again
Welded Quietly to New York Artist and Departs for Canada to Answer Attacks on Organ ized Labor.

Samuel Gompers, president ot the American Federation of Labor, and Mrs Gertrude Ainsley Gleaves NeusCheler were married i'll the Hotel Woodward, New York, on Saturday last by Supreme Court Justice Robert t. Wagner. After the ceremony MT. and Mrs. Gompers lett for Toronto, Canada, where MT. Gom- pers addressed the Empire Club Monday, answering a recent attack on OrgalllZtC labor by a representative ot the National Manufacturers Association.
 In his application for the license Mir. Gompers gave his age as Il, birthplace as England, his parentage as Dutch, his occupation as president ot the American rtdcratiOn of Labor and hlS SOC1al posi- tion that of a WIdOWer. Ills residence he gave as SIS West 5lst street, for many years his legal dOmlclle. Mrs NcuSCheler gave her age as 5S, her resi- dence as the Hotel Woodward. hat she had been married before was assured by copy of a divorce decree certifying that a divorce had been granted 10 her from Louis Neuscheler.
 Immediately after Justice Wagner had pronounced the couple man and Wlte, the guests sat down to bridal breakfast. in the party were Mir. and Mrs. John
 
 ants; Bernard A. Larger, general seCre- tary-treasHer of the United Garment Workers; Mrs. Sara A. COnbOy, general secretary treasurer of the United lex tile Workers; Guy II. Oyster, MT. Com pers' secretary, and Matthew Roberts, Also there were Mrs. Irving Brown of Princeton and Miss Elsie Gleaves of Trenton, sisters of the bride, and MT. and Mrs. Robert Rucker
 The announcement of the marriage of Samuel Gompers comes as a dramatic evidence of the rugged, vivid vitality ot the man. The public has known him as the sturdy, resourceful fighter who never found himself blocked in one endeavOr that he did not instantly plan another and more effective method of attack. The power of Gompers as a fighter lies i'll the great humanness of the man. Sus- tained by the inner spiritual force, Com perS has maintained a maSSlVeneSS Ot power that has amazed the world through decades Those who know the inner man watched with apprehension the blows that have of late years stripped him of home life and the sustaining love of daily companonship. Then there came change something like reviv- ing of life power something to be SClISCu dllO u dSSd u IlS SOlI NS NIOIlI- pers Is speaking from a keen, alert mind dealing with the problems of the day and the hour, using the language of cur rent work and thought, aware of ten dencies and able to discriminate the con- structive. You find him today sought by the engineers, by the constructive tlnan- cier by the statesmen of his own and foreign countries, by those who are try ing to meet the problems of today and tomorrow with the sureness of complete understanding. Gompers IS not an old man, he has simply been using 70 years of life crowded with multitude of activ- ities which have fitted him to do his work of each year a bit better than the past year Instead of growing old, he has grown into the fullness of living.
 When Arthur Henderson charged Gompers with being 50 years behind the time GomperS answered with an aero plane flight from Buffalo to Rochester to keep an appointment as part of the days work When the usual pre-con- ventiOn rumOrs started this spring, voiced by the naive Hearst who says Gompers is so old that he should be retired by the labor movement with some dignihed ex- title" Gompers responds by quietly talk ing unto himself a wife and thus be- ginning a new chapter in the book of life.