100 years ago

The annual convention of the American Federation of Labor went into session here this morning, with the Seattle central labor council’s status still pending with the executive committee, which Saturday and Sunday considered charges against the Seattle body of radicalism and insubordination.

The report of the executive council in part follows:

Development of an industrial franchise “comparable to our political franchise” must be the next goal of the labor movement, the executive council of the American Federation of Labor declared today in its reports to the Federation’s annual convention.

Warning of the “threat of the state invasion of industrial life” the council asserted that the hour has struck for “a pronouncement of the aims of labor that shall more nearly express the full implications of trade unionism.”

50 years ago

Pendleton Community Concert ticket holders will receive a bonus concert this year with the scheduling of Warren Jaworski, baritone, for the concert Jan. 21.

Included in the concert schedule, as announced at the close of last spring’s membership drive, are the Little Angels, national folk ballet of Korea, Oct. 15; Howard and Patricia Barr, duo-pianists, Nov. 12; and Ford’s Comic Opera Theatre giving “The Barber of Seville,” March 11.

Dan Jacobs, president of the Community Concert Association, announced today memberships for the 1973-1974 concert season will be accepted until the first concert Oct. 15. After that date no memberships, or tickets for indicated performances, will be sold.

The scheduling of Jaworski is in response to repeated requests for a baritone, Jacobs said.

Jaworski, a professor of music at Indiana University, has had roles in 30 Broadway musicals and has been on East coast tours with such actors as Van Johnson in “Music Man,” and John Raitt in “Pajama Game.”

25 years ago

The Hermiston High School marching band will present a free performance for parents and the public on Friday, one day before competing in a regional band contest.

The band’s first full show of the fall season will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the high school football stadium. It will serve as a dress rehearsal for the band’s outing at Saturday’s Cavalcade of Bands in Pasco. The marching band has worked on learning a drill and music for the competitive festival since the summer.

The evening also will be the first full public performance under the direction of band instructor Stephan Pavletich, who came to Hermiston during the summer. A graduate of Eastern Washington University, Pavletich worked at Grays Harbor College in Hoquiam, Wash., before he was hired by the high school.