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Title: The National Civic Federation review
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: National Civic Federation
Subjects: Labor and laboring classes
Publisher: New York : (The Federation)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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greatestof the annual dinners of the National Civic Federa-tion. IMPRESSIONS GATHERED DURING EUROPEANTRIP. By SAMUEL GOMPERS. THE reference of our honored president to my-self in introducing me to you, suggesting that Imight relate some of my impressions of the recenttrip I made to Europe, caused me to wonderwhether possibly he did not have in mind that Imight expatriate myself. I have had many impres-sions abroad. I would prefer to deal, however, if Idared, with circumstances and conditions here; for.after all, that which I may have observed in Europecan have only a relative importance to our ownactivities at home. Before going further, I mightsay that I found myself in exceeding good companyupon returning within the sight of these shores. Inever felt how much I loved America until after mytrip to Europe. To me it seemed a home-comingand the song, My Country, TIs of Thee, had a newmeaning. During my journoyings I was carried to Great March i, 1910 The National Civic Federation Review
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atfo CitijFcderation lo iPropfl^ Crfof Courl lo Orall Them I UNIFORM UWS FOR DlWRlMiiMji civic Federation to51 hMLL BE CHIEF TOPIC: TO OOVTIBOE53 The National Civic Federation Review March i, 1910 Ireland, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany,Bohemia, Hungary, Italy and Switzerland,some of the principal industrial cities ofthose countries beside attending severales of labor. I had many consultations withesentatives of the wage-earners, and withand file, as well as the representatives ofal class, and with the inquiring spirit of ournot only looked around, but also tried to seethe surface. tes taken while abroad on that journey have, on record, but on this occasion it is fittingition should be made of some of the broad) and lasting impressions made upon me, onking back over those weeks and weeks oftraveling. nited States is, both through fortuitous cir-ces and its civic and industrial development,ad of the world. Indisputably our people dod under the dreaded shadow of war, whichise constan

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