Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1913 — SAMUEL GOMPERS ART CRITIC [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SAMUEL GOMPERS ART CRITIC

President of American Federation of Labor Assails Architecture of Public Buildings at Capital. Washington. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, appeared in the role of art critic recently, attacking the- architecture of buildings in the national capital which have been regarded in other quarters as fine examples of the

artistic genius of those designing them. At the annual dinner of the Washington Architectural club, Mr. Gompers in an Impromptu speech characterized the postoffice as “a fresh one, trying to push its face in every one’s business,” and the Union station as inartistic.

Samuel Gompers.