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FEDERAL OFFICER1JICIT 0 WAN Ml I VC 110110 IHll HU 1011FRANK WflLTON BERKSHIRE, OF IM-ISprvlsinB Inspector for Mexican Border, Tonring CaSforala—AttGnds Labor Conference at San Francisco ExpDsidonMr, and Mrs. W. P, Whilsett have as house guests Mr. aDd Mrs. Frank Wftlton Berkshire and son, Walton, who are on the Coast for the purpose of attending the Conference on Employment, opened August 2 for six daily sessions, at Recital Hall, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, at San Francisco from which they have just returned. 1 Mr. Berkshire is supervising inspector of immigration tor the Mexican Border District, with headquarters at-El Faso, Texas, and is a lifelong friend of W. F. 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 San 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 said that it was presided over by^tbe Hon. W. B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor, tfiid was attended by representatives of every slate 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
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Van Nuys News and Van Nuys Call
Van Nuys, California, US
Fri, Aug 20, 1915
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