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The Evening Times
Washington, District Of Columbia
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AFL leaders including Gompers meet in Chicago with Building Trades Council officials to negotiate an end to the ongoing building trades strike, planning further talks with contractors.
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Federation Officers Seeking to Restore Peace in Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 26.—Representatives from the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, comprising President Gompers, Vice President James Duncan, and Sixth Vice President Thomas I. Kidd are here in conference with President Carroll and Secretary E. A. Davis, of the Building Trades Council, and Fred Fougeot business agent of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, at the Briggs House. They will endeavor to reach some settlement of the present strike of the Building Trades Union men.
President Gompers intimated that, after the conference with the delegation from the Building Trades Council, an effort would be made to secure a conference with the officials of the Building Contractors' Council.
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July 26
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Representatives from the Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor, comprising President Gompers, Vice President James Duncan, and Sixth Vice President Thomas I. Kidd, are in conference with President Carroll and Secretary E. A. Davis of the Building Trades Council, and Fred Fougeot, business agent of the Sheet Metal Workers' Union, at the Briggs House to reach a settlement of the present strike of the Building Trades Union men. President Gompers intimated that an effort would be made to secure a conference with the officials of the Building Contractors' Council.