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- Presented under the auspices of the American Friends of New Russia, in cooperation with the Mayor's Citizens Committee
Entered from various articles in the New York Times (July, 1917).
See the Museum of the City of New York, Wurts Brothers Collection for a photograph showing the Carnegie Hall interior as it appeared for this event (image/accession number X2010.7.1.2229).
According to one account in the Times, Theodore Roosevelt and Samuel Gompers engaged in a heated exchange at this meeting. "Bitter denunciation of the race riots in East St. Louis by Theodore Roosevelt, an attempt to explain them through the economic opposition of labor to imported negro workers, by Samuel Gompers, and a more impassioned reply by Colonel Roosevelt led almost to a fist fight on the stage of Carnegie Hall last night and provoked wild and prolonged disorder in the audience."
"Roosevelt and Gompers Row at Russian Meeting." New York Times 7 Jul. 1917: 1. Print.
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