OCR Text |
Show GRANGE REFUSES LABOR PLAN. Farmers Decline to Make Alliance With Union Workers. Grand Rapids, Mich. Through their representatives, six hundred thousand American farmers and their wives have declined an alliance with union labor. By an overwhelming vote the National Grange, in annual convention here, adopted on November 15, in reply to an invitation extended by Samuel 6ompers for a conference in Washington, Washing-ton, the following resolution. "The National Grange declines your Invitation Jor a conference in Washington Wash-ington December 13." The Gompers letter had been referred refer-red to the committee on good of the order, and after three days' discussion that bf fly reported on Saturday. Members Mem-bers declared that attendance at such 3i conference was fraught with peril to the grange, only a few western members supporting the acceptance of the invitation. |