Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-13 | Page 4 | Samuel Gompers and Lee Addresses Lodges

Samuel Gompers and Lee Addresses Lodges CLEVELAND. O.. April 12. Samuel Sam-uel Gompers, president of the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, and W. G. Loe, president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, left a meeting of five local lodges of trainmen at 3:30 p. m. after both had addressed the meeting on the railroad strike. Neither Mr. Gompers nor Mr. Lee would make a statement. 1 The meeting continued after the two ! labor leaders departed. Before going into tho meeting, however, how-ever, Gompers told President Lee he would back the brotherhoods to the last in their fight to keep their tanks solid. . j "I am going to do all in my power to bring about a settlement of the situation." sit-uation." he said. "While there is no denying the justice of the men's demands de-mands for monoy to live on, nothiDg can be gained by their secession froui their old organizations. An unauthorized unauthor-ized strike cannot be a success." After the meeting adjourned at 5 p. m. members said no vote on returning return-ing to work was taken and the sentiment senti-ment was that the men would remain out. It was learned that the men attending at-tending the meeting were largely composed com-posed of members of tho Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen who had struck but refused to join the Cleveland Yardmen's Yard-men's association.