Gonsalvo
or GONZALVO OF COR- DOVA, HERNANDEZ Y AGUILAR, a Spanish general, called "The Great Capfurther actions impossible. As the presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, he was, of course, identified with, and, indeed, frequently initiated this organization's policies, as in respect to the eight-hour day, employers' liability laws, etc. He has tried at various times, but without any marked degree of success, to control the labor vote on behalf of candidates favorable to labor. During the World War he was a member of the Advisory Commission of the Council of National Defense. At the Peace Conference in Paris in 1918-1919 he acted as the representative of the American Federation of Labor. At the same time he served as president of the International Commission on Labor Legislation. In 1919 he was the chairman of the delega- del tion from the American Federation of Labor to the convention of the International Federation of Trades Unions at Amsterdam. He also served as 1st vicepresident of the National Civic Federation. He published "Labor in Europe and America"; "American Labor and the War"; "Labor and the Common Wel- دوو fare," as well as numerous pamphlets on labor questions and movements.
GONAÏVES, a harbor on the west coast of the Island of Haiti, 67 miles N. W. of Port-au-Prince. It was here that the independence of the Republic of Haiti was proclaimed in 1804 by Dessalines. In 1914 it was the center of heavy fighting between the insurgents and the government, which resulted in temporary occupation of the country by the United States naval forces. The population is about 15,500.