St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-13
Birmingham, Ala. Selected
as the Next Place of
Meeting.
President Gompers Can Al
ways Be Found Fighting
Against Socialists.
The Federation Petitions Con-
greSs in Favor Of Wom-
an Suffrage.

DETROIT. Mich, Dec. 1.-THE con-
I vention of the Federation of Labor this
morning sent greetings to the Farmers
Alliance convention aud to the Interna-
tional Labor congress at Brussels. The
legislatures of Georgia, Kentucky, Ten
| nessee ard Alabama will be asked to
forbid convict labor in mines. Support
was pledged to the painters, who will
strike for eight hours OH May l next.
forbid United States enlisted mu-
sicians from competing for bust
ness with free musicians. The
convention decided that only bona
fide members of trades can hereafter be
delegates. A motion TO make q new
executive council of four, and leaving
the officers, except the president, out,
was lost. The bonds of the secretary
and treasurer were raised to 5000. A
new section OF the constitution provld-
ing for a s. week strike benefit for five
weeks for such
Local Unions
as pay in per capita tax of five cents
a month is under consideration. On the
question of the REIMBURSEMENT of the eX-
ecutive board and the power of the
president, the committee reported back
an amendment regarded by the friends
OF the president as of restrictive tend
ency. Mr.. Mcclure opposed it on
fiery speech as having a tendency to tie
the hands of the president and MIR. Nc
Bride advocated the amendment
in strong terms. President Com
pers arose to make per-
Sonal explanation, in which he said
he was not affected with 'big head"
and. besides, he knew the men on the
executive board were not capable of
crawling on their stomachS to Sam
Gompers. A vote was taken. and while
it was being taken President Gompers
resumed his personal explanation and
read the heading of German paper in
which GOmpers was charged with petty
tricks in cutting off debates in favor of
Sanial, and that in every way Gompers
was
Against the Socialist.
He woul ask if these things were
true, and whether he deserved the
abuse. He would not quote sociaIlstic
papers that said he was fit candidate
for lunatic asylum. He claimed to
have acted impartially, but he would
not ask the convention to take any
action. On the count of the vote it was
found that the amendment did not have
the necessary two-thrds vote, and was
declared lost. This was regarded as a
fNr In, 81,
amendments to the constitution, it
was plain and uninterrupted sailing,
save one raising the bonds of the secre-
tary and treasurer from 1000 to S., 200,
which occasioned a slight breeze, but
the amount of the bonds was raised.
The election of officers was the first
business of the afternoon session.
President GomperS was reelected by
1.7l6 votes, while his opponent. T. J.
Morgan, of Chicago, received 1914. Mr..
GomperS' election was made unanimous
upon motion of Mr.. Morgan. All the
other old
Officers Were Re-Elected.
as well. with the exception of the treas
urer, the present incumbent declining
denomination. j. B. Lennore was
elected treasurer by reclamation. Miss
Ida Van Etten read lengthy and we'll
written paper on 1.-THE Condition of
Women " orkerS Under the Present In
dustrial System" Birmingham, Ala,
was selected as the place of holding the
committee On constitution, which
was under discussion at the
time of adjournment at noon, was
again taken up. Article 10, in refer
ence to the establishment of strike
fund for local unions, after some
further discussion, was referred to the
executive committee, together with
three representatives of local unions,
with instructions to formulate a plan
for the carrying out OF the amendment
and submit the same to the local unions
interested. A motion to establish
A Board of Appeals
was favored by the committee as an
amendment to the constitution. After
some discussion it was voted down bv
the convention. The resolution to send
delegation to the convention of the in
ternational brick-layerS' union at Tor
onto next January, with view of in
duclng that union to affiliate with the
federation, was finally adopted with
amendments providing that the delega-
ton shall consist of the president and
two delegates. Several other resolu-
tons were disposed of. Among them
was the one previously intro
duced pledging the federation and
delegates to make an effort to secure
legislation prohibiting the employment
of children under the age of fourteen in
factories. The session then adjourned,
Sessions will be held tomorrow at ga.
N. and p. N. The latter will probably
be the closing sessions, as the members
are anxious to leave before Sunday. and
the remaining business will be pushed
as much as possible. In accordance
with the direction of the convention the
officers have drawn up the following,
which will be Immediately forwarded to
Washington:
To the house of rep resentatives an.
the senate in congress assembled: We
your petitioners, the American Fedora
ton of Labor, now in session i'm the CITY
of Detroit, state of Michigan, and repre-
Senting 100000 wOrkingmen who are
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