Show CANADA EXTENDS WARM WELCOME TO- TO TO 4 ORGANIZED LABOR LooKing Eagerly E gerlY Forward to Annual Report of Gompers TORONTO TORO Can NI Nov S. S Canada S.-Canalla Canada today extended a aarm warm arm welcome 1 to representatives of or organized labor who ho hoha ha have hare 0 conic come the tile length t b a and breadth 11 of the continent to attend the Iho twenty twenty- ninth annual convention of the American Amen Ameri can ein Federation of If Labor While the tho annual report of or the tho Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Gompers the president pre pre-i of the Iho federation federation fed tor cration is always alwa's look looked forward to with interest never nc in thu Ibo twentY twentY seven O CD years ears of his leadership has bas that report bc been n more eagerly anticipated than to lo- day The Tho recent decision of f the tho district dis- dis is court of appeals of oC tho the District of Columbia reaffirming the Iho sentence of imprisonment imposed on eDt Gompers President Vice John Mitchell and aDd Secretary Frank Morrison for Cor contempt contempt con con- tempt of court count in the tho Buck Duck Stove Sto and Kango Bange company case r hn has hns brought the these e officers officer of tho the federation within the shadow of prison rison walls alb and it is 13 for forthe whether tho the tho the convention con to decide case rAse t shall hall bo ho appealed in the tho United State Stales supreme court Mr Ir Gompers has 1135 contended that t toe the e constitutional rights of free lre speech and the tho freedom of the tho press pres i is involved in inthe inthe the contempt proceedings proceeding Mr Ir Gompers Gompers' four months t trip rip abroad investigating conditions in iii foreign for for- ei eign n labor tic his was expected to lo re- re suit Mill iu in a i recommendation as al to lo the wi wis wisdom dom of ot an affiliating Ji tin With wilh labor or org lions tion abroad w with th n II view to eventually 0 c establishing hin an fedora tion lion Tho The jurisdictional dispute in the Tot To- To t t i Brotherhood of Electrical Workers ns as n a result rc sult of secession ion movements move UlO meats ments in Ohio sail and Iowa lo will ill come up for fOI adjustment the the- convention and a lively debato is promised Labor Convention Opens D Delegates to tho the convention con and local local lo 10 lo- lo cal labor men lH several l hun hun- tired assembled ns at the Prince George George- oo hotel the tho federation headquarters headquarter r and marched to 13 Massey hall hail several sC blocks distant tho the American and British flags flying ned and a baud of leading Pr President li om called the tho convention con tIIU to order aud and later responded d to th the welcoming n address Other addresses ad nil- dresses were we're made by In W. W I L II Mackenzie e el l King minister of labor Jo lb c-lb Oliver Olivcr mayor ma or nf of if Toronto Dr minister of public works for Toronto nail and William Wilham William Wil Wil- liam ham Clocking president of tho trades and J Labor abor congress on ress Canada Today Today's S 'S program in add addition i tion to lo tho thug presentation of the tho report of President Gompers included reports b by B. B J Lou Lou- cu tar tary Morrison Treasurer John non nou and the committee ou on credentials |