Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-17
LABOR MEN And
VETERANS MUST
Hold TOGETHER
Samuel GOmpers Addresses
American Legion Con-
yentiOn To-day
Lands SPEAKS
Resolutions for Coming Year Are
Drawn up-Legion Politics Are
Roiling-McNider to Have Stift OPP
position.
tRy Tinted PreSS.)

tBy United PreSS)
New Orleans, Oct. l7.-SamueI
Gompers, president of the American
Federation Of Labor, urged co-opera-
tion between labor and the American
Legion, i'm speaking before the legion
convention here today.
The safety Of America in future
years depends more ON the legion and
organized workers than any other
bodies. ne declared
The American Legion convection to-
day voted 20 hold the 1928 conyen-
'tiou, October 1919 inclusive
New Orleans, oct. l7.-Samuel
Gompers, president Of the American
Federation of Labor, was to speak be-
fore the convention Of the American
Legion today IN favor Of cooperation
between the two organizations.
Organized labor ana organized vet
Grams should work together, Comp
erS holds. He hopes to establish ar
understanding between the two
groups.
Judge KencSaw Mountain Landis
high commissioner of baseball, also
was to address the convention.
Committees meantime are preparing
resolutions which will guide the work
of the legion during the year.
Resolutions will demand more effl-
cient care for wounded and disabled,
condemn interference" by Brig. Gen,
Sawyer i'm the Decentralization pro
gram, support immigration rcsJric-
tion and publicly urGe universal
service law for war time, committee
members said.
Legion politics are boiling and sup
portcrs of various candidates are or
ganizmg their forces. So many a..
pirauts are in the field that some be-
Icve a dark no will win the ma
tioual commanderShip. William F..
Deegan of New York. and a. =.
Sprague of Chicago, are being mos;
actively pushed.
Legionnaires have filled the city
to overtlowing. and crowds In the
streets are so dense that it is diff
cult to walk. about The authorities
literally have turned the city over 20
the visitors, and anything goes. Crap
games run in the lobbieS Of the prln-
cipal hotels. and bottles pass freely
about.
\ At night the city, gaily decorated
with allied flags and colored lights, be-
comes q carnival.
4 small replica Of the Mardi GraN
was panucd for tonight Last night
the descendants of the French who
founded the city were hosts to the
doughboys. aud turned the French
quarter into a little Paris" There
I was street dancing, and veterans
paraded arm in arm with girls in the
j costume Of Normandy.
Bands are everywhere. and groups
Of buddies from the different States,
1 many in uniform or groteSque cos
tunes, parade about. \ hooSier az
a tracted much attention with 4 large
4 pair of shoes, rowing about town
#mumbliug. "Quack, quack, I'm 4
"a duck
IowanS are everywhere with their
4 Iowa. Iowa, that's where the tail
corn grows" A big delegation from
"a 0Kausas gives the Rock, chalk, at
every opportunity.
IA Some of the Cleveland graNS are
~ drumming with the colonial guards
~ local military organization wear
ug uniforms of q century ago.
Oklahomars have posted a sign an
x snoWcing "Oklahoma quit waiting on
tGeu Sawyer They erected three
81 hospitals Of their own"
4 Various outfits held reunions to-
4 day Many former soldiers met COM
Il rades i'm arms they had not seen since
II daVS in France.
= The womeN'S auxiliary is holding
a separate and we'll attended conven-
Il ton and mapping out It's own pro-
Il gram of work More women are al
Il the convention than at any other
i Many. veterans brought their wives
Il and not q few their babies Two
: medal of honor men sitting ON the
front row of the convention. held rest
less infants in their arms. Womer
have orgaized a 80 femmeS ct
4 chevaux" organization 20 cooperate
with a similar mems society within
he legion.
San Francisco apparently viii ge
NE next convention. The committee
select the place had decided Il
&vor of that city. and " Is expected
- 1epiOO will anprOve.