The San Francisco call., 1895-12-13
These Said to Be Due to Law
yers Who Seek Gain Out
of Strife.
AN ADDRESS MADE BY SARGENT.
In the Near Future He Hopes to See
Firemen and Engineers in the
Order.

NEW YORK, n. Y, Dec. 12.-At this
mornings session of the American Fedora
ton of Labor communication was read
from the Trade and Labor Assembly OF
Chicago, to the effect that the lack of har-
mony among the trades unions of Chicago
was due to the interference of lawyers and
others who sought to make capital out of
the labor movement and requesting that
the incoming executive council of the fed
GRAFTON appoint a committee to establish
the labor movement In Chicago upon a
sound basis. This was referred to special
committee.
A resolution, submitted by the COM
mlttee on rules, approving of the present
BARRIERS Sunday closing-law in this State,
and asking the executive council of the
federation to aid in extending the law to
other States, was adopted.
A request from the caretakers of type
setting machines, calling themselves
"Type-setting Engineers" that they be
given a separate charter, gave rise to a
lengthy discussion. The request was re-
ferred back to the committee on organiza-
tion.
F. R. Sargent, chief OF the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, was introduced.
He paid high tribute to the work and pur-
poses OF the American Federation of Labor
and expressed the hope that in the near
future representative men of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen would repre-
sent it in the federation. He urged increased
trades union effort and aggressiveness in
the interest of organized labor and that
labor see TO it thatit has liberal representa-
tion in the councils of the State and
Nation.
A rising vote of thanks was given Mr..
Sargent and in reply he expressed the
hope that at the next convention the loco
motive engineers would be repres sented in
the federation.
Samuel Gompers read a report of the
proceeding of the Twenty-eighth Congress
of British Trades Unions at Cardiff, Wales,
in Septem last, after which recess was
taken.
At the opening of the afternoon session
Mrs. Mary Burt, president of the Women's S
Christian Temperance Union OF New
York, and Mrs. W. B. Stuckenburg of
Cambridge, Mass, National superintend-
ent of the Department of Temperance and
Labor; Mrs. E. J. Martin. Mrs. E. Francis
Lord and Mrs. Francis J. Barnes, frater-
nal W. C. I. U. dele gates, were escorted
ty the platform and introduced to the con-
vention. Mrs. Burt, in addressing the
assemblage, said they came to bring the
greeting OF Miss Frances E. Willard, presi-
dent of the National Women's Christian
Temperance Union.
The committee appointed to bring about
a settlement of the differences between the
TRADE and Labor Assembly and the Labor
Congress of Chicago recommended that a
committee. consisting of two members OF
the executive council for the federation,
go to Chicago to investigate and settle the
differences. The report was adopted.
A number of resolutions were referred to
appropriate committees, among others one
providing for a petition to Congress in
favor of the recognition OF the belligerent
rights of Cuba, and another protesting
against any legislation that will open the
wav to Sunday labor.
Adjourned until tomorrow.