The Connecticut labor news., 1922-03-17
Conference With Union Representatives o f State to Be Held at Garde Hotel Starting at Noon on Sunday.

President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of La Dor will be in New Haven about 6 o'clock on the afternoon of April l5, will be met by a com mittee of the Connecticut Fedora ton of Labor and immediately turned over to a committee rep resenting Yale and the business interests of Connecticut and then be entertained by those business men and Yale officials at a lunch con to be held entirely under the auspices of the Yale men and business representatives. MT. Gompers will remain in New Ha- ven over Sunday. the next day, and will attend conference of state labor leaders at the Hotel Garde to start promptly at noon and finish in time to allow MT. Gompers to go on to Boston for a meeting that is now in the mak- ing.
 The Gompers visit to New Ha- ven and Connecticut will mark an epoch. It is not a Labor movement although Connecticut Labor men are taking advantage of 1t. MT. Gompers was invited here to address Connecticut busi- ness men on the economic prob lens of the day and accepted. The Connecticut Labor leaders taking advantage of the visit of MT. Gompers arranged for gen eral labor meeting and that will be held at the Garde on Sunday afternoon. It will be attended by Labor men from all over Connec- ticut and with very few outsid- CTS who are friendly to Labor be one of the most important meet ings Labor has ever held here.
 According to letter received from MT. Gompers by P. F. O'Meara, president of the Connecticut Fedora ton of Labor, on Thursday, MT Gompers will arrive in New Haven on the train due here at 5:45 p. m. on the afternoon of Saturday, April IS. He will have a short session with
 
 burn and perhaps few others of the State Federation executive board, after which he will be turned over intact to the businessmen and col legians who are inviting him to Con- necticut Labor will in no wise in terfere or interjec with this meet ing Ii will be solely between the state business men and MT. Gompers Labor to have its day the day fol- lowing.
 MT. Gompers will be accompanied by his personal secretary, Mir. Oyster and they alone will go to the business mems meeting on Saturday evening and which meeting will be held at one of the bigger clubs of the city. It is to be an exclusive meeting of business men and manufacturers Of Connecticut All lines will be repre- sented and the situation talked over. It will mean a lot to Connecticut workers and business and Organized Labor in Connecticut IS heartily i'll favor of the proposed "get-together."
 What transpires at the meeting be- tween Mir Gompers and the business men on Saturday night will be trans mitted to the Labor men of the state on the day following at the Labor meeting at the Garde. Gompers can bring the business men together and he can certainly bring Labor tOgeth- CT, and between the two meetings an understanding of the industrial situa- ton in Connecticut should be brought about
 According to his present itenary MT. Gompers will arrive in New Ha- April IS, be met T2 by MT. O'Mcara T1d MT. Ornburn, go to the Garde fof q brief rest and then given over to the Yale and business mems committee. The meeting with the business and Yale men will be held formally at 8
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