Workmen's advocate., 1889-12-21
Third Days Session.

The first hour of Thursdays session was spent in the transaction of routine business. Then the Committee on the Report of the President reported in commendation of the proposition to ap point committee of seven to which all matters relating to the eight hour move ment be referred.
 A favorable report was also made on the holding of an international congress in the city in which the fair is held in 1899. The committee recommends that the federation seek the rigid enforce ment of the contract labor laws and the Chinese Exclusion act and the agitation of ballot reform until all States have adopted the Australian system.
 In the matter of strike assessments it is recommended that the Committee on Constitution formulate a plan for the management for the fund.
 The committee's report was discussed and its recommendation referred to the proper committees.
 SPECIAL REPORTS FOR ORGANIZATION.
 The report of the Committee on Orga- nization recommended that the Conven- tion instruct all affiliated organizations to make a special effort to aid in organ iZing the bakers, coal miners and boot and shoe makers; that the system of appointing organizers to secure union on a trades union basis be continued and the expenses of organizers paid that the Executive Council tIy and bring about the amalgamation of all dual organiza- tions existing in any one trade in the case of unions affiliated with the Fedora tion: that hereafter all conferences of | officers of the Federation with officers of the Knights of Labor relating to trades union organizations, or the mu.ual interchange and recognition of working cards, shall cease, and that delegates be instructed to bring the re- concentrations of this report to the notice of every local union.
 NO UNION WITH THE KNIGHTS.
 The report evoked long discussion. Its first recommendation was referred back to the committee with instructions to insert the names of other than affili- ated organizations. The second and third propositions were unanimously adopted. | The fourth was referred to special committee with instructions to prepare an address to the people of America, stating plainly the trades union position l of the Federation, and the last recOm- mendation was adopted.
 The Secretary and Treasurer's reports were referred. The latter showed receipts of $7, ,443 and expenditures of SCOTS A number of minor resolutions were pro- perly referred and a recess was taken.
 At the afternoon session the presenta ton of resolutions was continued. Un. der suspension of the rules there was adopted a resolution of sympathy with the boot and shoe workers thrown out of employment by the Lynn fire, and also a recommendation that affiliated bodies of the Federation extend to them such financial aid as their means per mitted. Among the resolutions presented and adopted were the following:-
 MANY RESOLUTIONS.
 Urging the labor press to renewed efforts and calling upon organized labor to support it {; urging an effort to have the provisions of the Employers Liabi lity statute, as now enforced in Massa. chusetts. extended to other states urg' ing greater interest in utilization with the Central Labor unions in various places; recommending to the Maritime Congress the passage of rules for the better loading Of vessels, the care ot crews and the adoption of common load line for the vessels of all nations.
 A resolution condemning child labol when such employment is injurious tC the health and development of the chile was referred back to the committee witl instructions to insert the limit of age a which children might begin to work a fourteen years.
 NO INDEPENDENT POLITICAL ACTION. A resolution presented by the dele