Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — Labor Leaders in Conference' [ARTICLE]

Labor Leaders in Conference'

A conference of far-reaching importance to labor l>egan at Washington Wednesday. Participating are President Gompers and the members of the executive council of the American Federation of Labor, together with the executive officers of the International trades unions of America, who met pursuant to q call issued by President Gompers to consider the consequences of the recent injunction decisions of the federal supreme court affecting labor organizations, with particular reference to the Danbury hatters’ ease, in which that court substantially held that labor organizations were to be considered trusts as much as organizations of capital.