Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-19
G0MPERS GETS THERE.
Easily Elected Again President of the
Federation of Labor.
MR.. BURTT COULDN'T TOUCH HIM.
Close of Campaign characterized by ABB
sorbing Intensity.
THE FULL LIST OF OFFICERS CHOSEN

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Dec. 1S-The re-
election of President Gompers, of the
American Federation of Labor, this
| afternoon was an easy victory.
The campaign of the opposition
had been characterized rather by its
intensity than its volume, and the vote
stood: Gompers, 1886; j. H. Burt, of
Wheeling, 535; August Delabar, of Pitts
burg, 129.
Delabar asked that his name be not put
in nomination, but several delegates in
sisted on voting for him. The real fight
was between Gompers and Burtt, and the
latter moved to make the election unani-
nous, but Delegate Harding objected, and
the motion was not put. The other officers
elected were as follows: p J. McGuire,
First Vice President; Chris Evans, Secre-
tarv; John B. Lonnon, Treasurer. Lennon
declined. but it was forced on him by a
handsome majority.
Woman's Suffrage Indorsed.
At the morning session resolutions were
adopted favoring woman suffrage constitu-
tional amendment: condemning cruelty to
seamen, protesting against the payment of
and further subsidy to the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company until it ceases the en-
ploment of japanese and Chinese; indors-
ing the action of the bakers union in call
ing an international congress at Hamburg,
Germany, in 1892; striking out section 1 of
article of the constitution.
The convention adopted adverse reports
on proposition recommending united po-
litical action by trades unions, and on
closing the Worlds Fair on SUNDAYS
The afternoon session opened with lively
scene, in which Miss Ida Van Eaten, of
New York, was the central figure. She
was accorded permission to make speech
favoring the appointment of a woman organ
izer, and in the course of her remarks re-
fected on several delegates who had not
sympathized with her plans, and she called
Vice President McGuire's conduct 'brutal. "
Votes From Anybody Welcomed.
McNeill sarcastically said Lemons Or
ganization was glad enough to receive
woman's Dues but gave them no votes.
''That Is false; that is untrue" exclaimed
Lennon.
When the lady concluded each of the
three made speech in defense of himself,
in which it came out that Miss Van Eaten
wanted to be the woman organizer herself,
at salary of 81, 200.
The constitution was amended so as to re-
move the Vice Presidents from the success
sion in case of q vacancy in the Presidency
and empower the Executive Board to fill it.
By vote of over 2 to 1 the proposition to
establish an "organ," to be edited by the
President, was voted down. A resolution
was reported unfavorably by the committee
which provided that no man who holds
political office should be an organizer of
trades unions. Nearly all the delegates
had something to say against the PROPOSE
tion. 1t came out that the resolution was
aimed at Sidewalk Inspector Ogg, of De
troit; that on the floor were State SEN
ator from Missouri (Aug. Miller),a member
of the Legislature from Massachusetts,
Daley, and several others with smaller
positions. The adverse report of the COM
mittee was concurred in with few negative
votes.