Gompers Replies to Eliot on Trade Unionism
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor issued a statement from Washington on October 26 responding to former Harvard president Charles W. Eliot. Gompers defends trade unionism and criticizes Eliot’s remarks made at Kenyon College Gambier Ohio last night.
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Eliot
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American Federation of Labor
Elliot
Kenyon College
Gambier
Ohio
Mrs John Jacob Astor Hiding Amid Family Trouble Revealed
Mrs John Jacob Astor, leader of New York society and renowned philanthropist, enjoys social triumphs abroad while managing family tensions. Her son William Vincent Astor is 17, and daughter Alice is seven. her marriage on Feb 17 1891 linked her to the Astor fortune.
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Astor Palace
Sixty-fifth Street
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Astoria Hotel
Waldorf
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Labor unions defend workers against industrial power
Gompers argues that industrial concentration and division of labor diminish individual workers. He says only unions and federations can secure workers’ rights, calling labor organizations the best defenders of democracy and predicting they will endure beyond himself and Dr. Eliot.
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Fliot
Gompers
Eliot
Aunt Found Through Post Reunites 11 Year Old Nora Beaton
Nora Trancis Beaton, an 11 year old who traveled 2000 miles from Bakerville British Columbia to Boston, was found sobbing at North station last Sunday night. Her aunt Molly Fitzgerald of Brailiford arrived yesterday to take her from Chardon Street Home after learning of the case from a Post article. The girl arrived unaccompanied and was given a stagecoach ride to Boston, with a slip bearing Molly Fitzgerald’s address at 14 Ferry Street Boston Mass.
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Molly Fitzgerald
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Boston
Daniel Beaton
Bakerville
British Columbia
Ferry Street
Roston, Mass
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