Advocates of Bahia Movement

Washington, D.C., April 18. — A number of men prominent in politics, education, religion and labor assembled in the capital today for the second annual conference of the Persian-American Educational Society, which is made up of advocates of the so-called Bahá’í movement for universal religion, brotherhood and peace. The conference this year is honored by the presence of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the founder and leader of the movement. Senator Burton of Ohio, Representative Suzler of New York, President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and several other men of national prominence are to address the conference. The sessions will last three days.