New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-08-22
LABOR REFoRMERs IN SESSION.
OFFICERS ELECTED AND WORK LAID OUT FOR TIL


OFFICERS ELECTED AND WORK LAID OUT FOR THE
MEETING.
The third annual congress OF the Federation Of
Organized Trade and Labor Unions oil the united
States and Canada began its sessions yesterday at
noon IN Turn Halle IN East fOurth-st. There were
present twenty delegates representing between
100 900 aud l70, 900 wage-workers. The object OF
the TO discuss topics of general interest
to labor TO present measures 10 the State and
National legislatures looking TO the betterment Of
the condition of the aborng classes to hear reports
on the labor movement and TO devise ways and
means for the benefit and protection OF wage
workers.
took a recess until p Samuel Gompcrs, chair
man OF the Legislative Committee then called the
meeting TO order and announced the hrst business IN
order be the election %! officers be election rosul-
ed as follows: Samuel Gompers. ofNcw-fork chair
man; T. Powers, sof Chicago. vice-chairmaa; w.
c. Pollmer, of Cleveland, secretary; w. H. Foster,
of Cincinnati, .assstant-secret2ry, and j. II.
OBrien, Of Washington, hergcsnt-at-arms Fred
erick Blind offered resolution, which was unani-
mously carried. instructing the president To appear
| before the Senate Committee on Education aud
Labor, and direct attention 10 the Western Union
| Telegraph Company IN compelling its employees 10
sign the agreement directed against secret organi
| cations and to ask that law be- recommended
making il criminal offence 10 propose such an OATH
| John II. OBnen offered three resolutions The
first avored the "ppOIntment of board OF arbtra-
| ton by the executive officer OF each state or
province 10 settle all difficulties between labor and
capital: the second requested Congress to impose
penalty for the nfraction OF the Eight Hour law,
and the third proposed that the legislatures OF the
different States should limit dividends for all stock
| companies to 10 per cent ON money actually in
| vested, all profits above that amount to 30 dis
| tributed among the employees OF the corporations
These resolutions referred TO the Committee on
Standing Orders, and will be discussed at future
| date.
| resolution was introduced inviting the Senate
Committee on Education and Labor 10 be present
| at the Thursday mornings session OF the coLgress
to hear general discussion OF the labor question:
A substitute offered providing that committee
of ten be appointed to draft resolution cmbOdylng
the general grievances OF the aboring men with the
remedies proposed and lay the memorial before the
| Senate Committee. Both the original resolu ton
sion referred 70 the Committee on Standing Orders
The congress adjourned until a. IN. to-day.
| SEEKING TO PUNISH A NOTORIOUS WOMAN
| Bertha Heyman who has been charged with various
oeuses III this and the neighborIng cities was on
| trial Yesterday in the Court OF General Sessions
| She is q bright looklng. but not handsome woman
| the Penal Code, which allows the infection of q
heavier sentence for the second offence the District
| Attorney brought witnesses TO show that Mrs Hey
| man has been convicted heretofore. Henry Walsh,
a deputy clerk of the COurt of General Sessions tes-
| tilted that the record shows that she convicted
for false preteuces in 1881 and sentenced to two
| years imprisonment in the Peniientiary. Michael
Kennedy keeper at the Penitentiary, testified that
Mrs. ieyman had served twenty months IN that in
| stitution in 1881 and 1882 Edward Sanders. the
complaining witness in the present case, told on the
| witness-stand how Mrs. Heyman had represent Ell
herself AZ a relative of his worth oyer 5000, 600.
| and had prom scd him the disposal of all her prop
erty She brought TO his door Lorso and carriage
| which she said she had bought for him, and they
took short ride in but he never saw 1t afterward
several hundred dollars. The trial will be contin-
| ued to-day.