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Show i M Current Topics I 'Tatirr (if Eigiti-llour Hay." nH Oik mliej labor, particularly In New Vt9 l:nnUnil la Mrewlly Interested In tha Bfr' red in iiion of tho fiftieth anniversary Wck of the connection of (lorg 11 Me nU Nill of Ihistnn with the movement Mg Kitty years ago KA1 ' Mr McNeill began .U f v"' agitating In faror JMto y'r, IT) ot tho e)ghtnour J2l Xft j) '- work day. and ho RJ7 ' slj'x-' -'baffibeen active! In M v vJiymil 'Ince " w" th" 'MiS it dm nrU ncM "K'nl ot rfil Kflm'V ,ne 1!lRh " "our Isvfl 'JmSffiy l"MRle nn,l "" tw 7jr7 wall the title of CJ "Father of tho 'jM night Hour Day" lleglnnlng Ufa ns n bobbin boy In a woolen mill, ho has devoted half n century to forwarding-the forwarding-the cause ot orgviiltcd labor. I In has written several books on tabor sub- i ' Jects, and In 11180 was tho labor candl- I date for Mayor of lloslon In US ho I was chosen as arbitrator of tho great J Iloston street car strike, nnd by his In j fluenco succeeded In settling It. Ho was born In Amrshitry. Ma. In 1817 ,' and hla father was a great friend ot , , the poet Whltllor nnd of othor antl- , slavery leaders In honor of Ms fiftieth ' anniversary aa a labor leader it grand ' ' banquet will bo given In his honor either In Now York or Iloston, tho date and plaro not having been yet selected It Is assured that hundreds of men prominent In tho work of organised labor will lia present to honor the patriarch |
