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Show CROWDS HONOR DEAD LEADER "Carry On" Is Gomper's Farewell Fare-well Message to American Labor Interests. . NEW YORK, Dec., IS. (IT. P.) Acclaiming Samuel Gompers a "frontiersman', a pioneer in the ranks of labor and a patriot of patriots" Rabbi E. Stephen Wise today conducted funeral services for the dead labor leader in the crowded crowd-ed auditorium of the Elks club. The Jewish service for the dead was conducted by rabhi, after which James Duncan. Gompers' first lieutenant lieu-tenant for 3 years spoke labor's farewell to its chief., Hundreds were turned away after the auditorium wras filled with men and women from every walk of life. The services were broadcast by WEAP. Gompers' Americanism was stressed by those who eulogized him. Duncan briefly reviewed Gompers' life work and read a Inst message which the "chief gave" him three days before he died, evidently with a premonition of death upon him.V "When I am gone, I don't want the work I have started to stop. We have only just begun," Gompers Inxt message read. "I w'ant you of the American Federation of Labor to carry on." Impressive services by the Elks followed. |
