The Butler weekly times., 1897-10-21
A CONVENTION CALL
Notice Given of the Meeting oft,a
American Federation OF Labor.
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII F.YOnED
Senator Morgan Returns from His Trim II,
the Isiands and Is Enthusiastic Over
Them Becoming . Part of the
United states.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2o.-Presiaent
Samuel Gosnpers, by Frank Morrison,
secretary, has issued a call to all afsil.
lated unions for the 18th annual con.
vention Of the American Federation of
Labor TO be held at Nashville, Tenn.
in the hall of the house of Representa-.
tives, at ten clock Monday morning.
December IS, next. The session is tn
continue until all of the business of
the convention shall have been com.
pleted. Resolutions of any character
or propositions for changes in the con-
stitution intended for the considers.
ton by the convention must be sub
mitted to the secretary at least two
weeks prior to the meeting. The com.
mittee on credentials will meet Mt
Nashville three days previous to the
opening of the convention. The call
makes strong plea for full attend
ance of workingmen at this conven-
tion, and states that no convention in
recent years has been called upon to
deal with more monentous questions
than confront the workers of to-day,
The objects of the convention are, in
part, thus set out in the call:
The sayerities of the industrial stagnation OF
the past four years have not yet been abated
The wrongs from which the workers suffer
have not been righted, The injustice imposed
upon our people remains unremeded, The
oyerworked large mass and the unemployed
many are still TESTIMONY to the folly Of our age
The employment of children in our factories
and workshops. though modified. fingers with
US still. and the spectacle is witnessed of idle
men and lahoriously busy children Legisla-
lures are more concerned with the privileges
to the few than with the rights Of the many;
while public assemblage and free speech are
invaded threatened or forbidden, and the
modern judicial weapon Of injunction is utilized
III the effort TO crush labor. These rights and
wrongs and others OF equal Importance bat too
numerous for reference here must of necessity
be considered at the forthcoming convention,
and such action devised as shall tend to attain
the one and set aside the other
ANNEXATION OF HAWAII FAVORED.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. Ex-senator
Morgan and his daughters and +. NJ
Hatch. the new minister from Hawaii,
were among the passengers who ar
rived from Honolulu upon the steam
ship Belgic yesterday. Senator Nor
gan expressed himself as we'll pleased
with what he saw and the manner in
which he was entertained while on the
islands. He is more than ever enthu-
siastic on the subject of annexation,
and intimated that Hawaii may be-
come part of this country before the
close of the coming year. He says:
Hawaii is certainly going TO be 4 stat. bu.
whether 1t viii be at the time of its anne xation
or later remains to be seen. Should it be an
nexed aS territory, the Hawaiian eominis-
sioners will recommend that the islands be ad-
mitted to statehood and special act of con-
gress would undoubtedly follow. | have fa-
vored annexation from the beginning but
was surprised upon investigating the matter
to find that the arguments in favor Of the
movement had been underestmated. In my
opinion, Hawaii Is absolutely Indispensable to
the United States and we must have those
islands. The only opposition found was that
OF a few of the Liiiuokalani royalists who have
no weight over there. ana are for the most part
royaliSts for revenue only