Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1924-12-19
Americas Foremost Labor
Chief Goes to His Reward

he drew up the plan of finance under
which the organization has since de-
veloped. He promoted direct election
of officers and direct legislation with
in that body and in other internation-
al unions which later adopted the
same method.
At the recent convention of the
American Federation Of Labor at Ell
Paso he was again, without opposi-
ton, elected as president by unani-
nous vote.
With Vice President John l.. Lewis
presiding, Mr.. Gompers was placed in
nomination by Delegate Perkins, of
the Cigar Makers, in the following
brief though comprehensive address:
Labor is just as severe as any other
association in its demand that its
leadership shall come with clean
hands and possessed Of the highest
type of necessary qualifications to
successfully lead in our great move
ment for the benefit and welfare of
human kind. Happily, on this occa-
sion, we have with US a man who has
measured up to the highest possible
standard that labor or any other asso-
citation may require of it's leadership,
one who has been tried and never
found wanting, one who, by his eX-
perience, keen mind and well known
characteristics, possesses in the high
est degree, character, judgment and
courage.
| am sure that every Delegate to
this convention will not only be glad
to again proffer to him the position
he now holds, but to say to him that
our only regret on this particular oc-
casion is that we cannot give more.
Possessing every requirement that
makes for success, | am justified in
nominating and the Delegates in re-
electing as President of the American
Federation of Labor our venerable
and beloved leader, Samuel Gompers.
Delegate Fitzpatrick, Of the Actors
Equity Association, seconded the NOM
ination as follows:
There are things which a man can
do, and in the doing of them bring
honor to another. There are things
which a man can do, and in the doing
of them bring honor to himself. 1t
is this latter thought which comes to
me as ! arise to second the nomina-
tion of Samuel Gompers for the Pres
idency of the American Federation of
Labor.
1t is a privilege and an honor which
| deeply esteem, |, relatively a raw
recruit in the labor movement, to rise
and pay my respects to the veteran
commander who, for almost half cen
tury has so ably, so zealously and SO
successfully lead the army of workers
who have been fighting for the better
ment, the progress, the happiness of
every man and woman in this or any
other country who earns his or hel
bread by the sweat of their brow.
1t would be impertinence in me to
try to tell all you men who have
grown old in the service of the work
ers what kind of a man Samuel Comp
ers is; it would be an impertinence
for me to tell you men who have
marcher side by side with him al
these long years, who have endured
| with him the heat of the day and the
labor thereof, what kind of a leader
of men and what kind of a comrade
he is, and if l do not launch into any
eulogy of Sam it is not because he
does not deserve it, but because in
the eyes and the hearts Of the men
and women with whom he has beer
associated for fifty years he needs nc
eulogy-least of all from me. Nol
have | any intention of canonizing