Ephraim Enterprise | 1919-11-01 | Page 6 | Grange Refuses Labor Plan.

G GRANGE ANGE REFUSES REFUSE LABOR PLAN I Farmers Decline to Make Alliance With Union Workers Grand Rapids Mich Through Through their representatives six sli hundred thousand American farmers and th their ir wives have declined ned an alliance ce with union labor By nn an an overwhelming vote the National Grange In annual convention here adopted on November 15 in iii reply to toan toan toan an invitation extended by Samuel Gompers Gompel for a n conference in Washl Washington Washing g- g ton eon the following resolution The National Grange declines your invitation for a conference in Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington December 13 The Gompers Gompers' Gompers letter had been referred referred referred refer refer- red to the committee on good of the order and after three da days days' s' s discussion that body reported on Saturday Members Members Mem Mem- bers declared that attendance at such sucha a conference was was was' fraught with peril to the grange grunge oni only a few western members supporting the acceptance of the tIme Invitation