Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1908 — FEDERATION LEADERS [ARTICLE]

FEDERATION LEADERS

Will Resent the Snob of (Jumper* By the President. t Denver. November 11.—The News today says: ‘•President Roosevelt's snub of Gompers will be | resented by John Mitchell, Daniel J. Keefe and Jatnea Duncan as soon as they receive the President’s invitation to attend the legislative dinner at the White House next Thursday. “These three members of the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor yesterday decided that they will refuse the In- ? vitations. The action was taken < after this slight put upon President Gompers and other officials of the * Federation had been generally disv cussed by the delegates, to the convention. "The invited officials decided that If President Roosevelt wanted ;j||» do anything in the interest of labor it mast be done through the organisation (the American Federation of Labor), recognised as the parent body of all unions In the country.”