Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-01-29 | Page 2 | Gompers Honored by Labor Leaders

GOMPERS HONORED BY LABOR LEADERS Many Notables Attend Dinner Given President of Federation of Labor. NEW YORK, Jan. 2S. Labor leaders from all parts of the country savo a dinner din-ner tonight to Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Lvibor, to commemorate his fiftieth anniversary of activity in labor circles, his sixty-seventh birthday and his golden wedding anniversary. anni-versary. Twenty-seven of Mr. Gomper's relatives were present, including his wife and father, Saul Gompers, who Is S2 years old. Among the guests were Alton B. Parker, Par-ker, District Attorney ICdward Swann, John Mitchell, chairman of the state industrial in-dustrial commission, Cornelius Ford, United States public printer, and many others of prominence. When Mr. Gompers entered the banquet ban-quet hall the diners rose and sang "Our Grand Old Man," which was specially written for the occasion. A huge sign above the guests' table bore the words, in red, white and blue electric letters a foot high, "Fifty years' service to humanity."