Show HOLD JOINT A SESSION 4 Executive Committees of Labor Men Get Together ADDRESS TO BE ISSUED F ADRESS I iI I i BOYCE A MDONALD WILL PREPARE A STATEMENT Gompers Denies That His Mission Here Wa to Induce Westerners t Return to the American Federation tion Fold Has Made No Formal Effort t Secure Such Action T The executive committees of the Western Federation of Miners of America Amer-ica and the Western Labor Union held a joint session yesterday morning The principal matter discussed was the Issuance is-suance of an interchangeable card which would entitle the holder to admission ad-mission into any of the subordinate branches o either organization I Is likely that such cards will b issued I was also decided that President Boyce of the miner and President McDonald of the laborers Would issue a joint address to be prepared sometime some-time in the near future This address it is stated will embody an appeal to all labor organizations to side with th striking miners in the Coeur dAlenes Another agreement reached wa that il hereafter when they take the field for President Boyce organization purposes Prident is to work just as hard for the Labor t Vnion a for the miners and President McDonald is to return the compliment Both presidents carefully avoided any discussion of the mission here of President Samuel Compere of the American Federation which is said to b = r to induce the western bodies to affiliate af-filiate once more with the larger one Mr McDonald said he had met Mr Gompers but the matter had not been formally discussed Mr Boyce had also seen Mr Gompers Mr Gompers denied that he came here for the purpose outlined above He declared that he didnt even know the labor people were meeting Salt Lake ontil a da or two before his arrival I hope they will come back into the Federation he concluded but I have made no formal attempt to induce them to take such action te te aon Mr Gompers leaves for Colorado this evening Nearly all of the members of both organizations or-ganizations have gone home J few will remain during today seeing the sights but all business either general or committee ha been concluded |