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YleLr10rstsI.srInintsalitoferreatjhillery-ksbeISanisadir-gn111ofoferbyit'-icti!183eanIBtnoh-iX-6,-Ulrg-llSiti-y’sllS.Itipang’l,1.4.on-FEDERAL OFFICER1JICITC WilU Ml I VC 110110 1M1111U10FRANK WALTON BERKSHIRE, OF i-HIGRATION BUREAUSupervtsino Inspector for Mexican Border, Touring OaBfomia—Attends Labor Conference at Si Francisco ExpositionMr, and Mrs. W. P, Whitsett have as house guests Mr. aod Mrs, Frank Walton Berkshire and Bon, Walton, who are on the Coast for the purpose of attending the Conference on Employment, opened August 2 for sis dally sessions, at Recital Hall, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, at San Francisco from which they have just returned.' Mr, Berkshire is supervising Inspector of immigration for the Mexican Border District, with headquarters at- El Paso, Texas, and is a lifelong friend of W. P. Whitsett, It was this friendship, together with, the very real interest that Mr. Whitsett takes in the problems to be discussed at this conference, that impelled him to make hs recent trip to Ban Francisco. Having been largely interested during his mining operations in the employment of labor, he realized the epoch-making nature of this, the first conference which the newly-organized Department of Labor has undertaken. In speaking of the conference, he Ball that it was presided over by^tho Hon. W. B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, Slid was attended by representatives of .every state and territory in the Union, and of the large cities which have free employment agencies, also many representatives of the Postoffice Department, and the imigration officials summoned from all over the country. It Was a notable gathering, which will hereafter be held' annually to consider the national labor problems and the problems of the unemployed, the unemployable and the incoming immigrant population. ‘Mrs. Berkshire and Mrs. Whitsett are especially enthusiastic oyer some of the very pleasant social . events •—-v * Jr- ■ *l\cv tt«nvr V»fiT*nof' IWs^conference aiid'their'friends, 'among them the reception which. Was given in honor of Hon. W-. B. Wilson and his daughter, Miss A'gnes Wilson, by the president and bord of directors of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition on Friday evening, August 6, in the beautiful California Building. The ceremonies observed on the Exposition grounds, in Souths Gardens, at the Fountain of Energy, fronting the exquisite Tower of Jewels, on .Monday afternoon, were arranged and conducted by Commissioner General of Immigration A. Caminetti, in honor of Secretary of Labor Wilson. The naval maneuvers' were wonderfully impressive, when the entire, representative conference and Secretary of Labor W. B. WilBon, in the capacity of a cabinet officer, reviewed from the historic battleship Oregon the fleet of war craft anchored off the Marina. The Oregon was flying the flag of the Secretary of Labor, the first time that the standard of Labor had ever been raased on any American warship. When Secretary Wilson and his party left the Oregon for land, they did so to the booming o£ the great guns of the vessel, firing seventeen times in salute.Mr. and Mrs. Berkshire will make a somewhat extended visit before returning to their home.cniTADC oinc II M a WAR.CWID
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Van Nuys News and Van Nuys Call
Van Nuys, California, US
Fri, Aug 20, 1915
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