Show DELEGAT S HA HAD HADAN D DAN AN EX i No R Regular Sess Session on of F Federa edera FederatiOn tiOn of labor Co Convention HELD AT AI NIGHT J ADDRESS BY ERNAL DELE DLE GAT ENGLAND t San Fr Francisco Fo Nov regular session of the convention on of th thern Amer American Amerlean ican lean Federation of t L to today today day Instead the delegates spent the theda da day in an on San Francisco Lay Uty the guests of the Ia bor bOl organizations of f the cities of San Francisco and Vallejo After Ata viewing poInts on h bay the delegates to Vallejo where they disembarked disembarked barked and were tendered a luncheon About sat down at the tables and during the cour course e ot of the meal were ad addressed addressed dressed b by James Rooney Roone the mayor of Vallejo Frank It Devlin president o of the Vallejo chamber of commerce J B Dale president nt of the Vallejo jo tra trades es labor council and Rear Admiral McCalla commandant of the Mare Is Island land navy yard President Gompers re replIed replied plIed for the American I Federation of Labor After luncheon the delegates were taken on tt ft ot of the navy yard ard where they were enabled to obtain an intimatE knowledge of the equipment and f faculties pt the place as a gr great a repairing and plant Mass ass Meeting Held In the thc e evening a great gleat mass meeting was held at the Alhambra theatre in inthe inthe the city of San Francisco So large was the attendance that It was necessary to hold overflow meetings The prIn sPeakers were Samuel Gom Gompers ers John Mitchell James Thomas ThomasI I I Kidd D J Keefe W G Spencer and m fraternal d legates delegates Abraham AbrahamM I M Po P James and J A Fleet the l first two representing the toilers of Great BritaIn the third the Domin DominiOn iOn of Canada William Abraham a fraternal dele dale g gate te representing the workers of Great BrIt Britain ln and the member of parliament of that co country un tn was the first speaker He took for his theme the Free Labor Society of the BrItish Islands whIch he explains was operated on similar lines to the Citizens Alliances and Manufacturers assocIation of this coun count country t try Cheering Assurances He said that lie be could gh glue cheering I to the friends of labor In the United States that the sOciety In Eng England England land was on the wane Only recently I according to th speaker appeal for aid aidon on behalf of the Free society O iet was as assent sent out on the plea that unless finau cial aid was sas forthcoming the organization tion must cease to exist i He was followed b by Fraternal Dele Delegate gate James also of England i iwho who contrasted the growth and meth I otis of the labor Jabor movements il the British islands and the United St Samuel Gompers presIdent of the American Federation of Labor closed the meeting with an appeal to the friends of labor to aid the ho hents who were ere striving or better conditions tor i the he workers I I |