Gompers Going To Porto Rico

Gompers Going to Porto Rico.

Washington, Jan. 22. - The executive council of the American Federation of Labor yesterday authorized President Gompers to proceed to Porto Rico to investigate labor conditions in the island and aid the wageworkers in organizing. He also was authorized to aid in preventing the enactment of an affirmative injunction law in Alabama. President Gompers was directed to make every effort to secure executive clemency in behalf of E. W. Clark, who twenty-five years ago was charged with mutiny and who has been incarcerated ever since, upon the ground of great provocation and his length of term of imprisonment.