Evening star., 1898-12-21
GOMPERS STILL PRESIDENT.
Federation of Labor REFLECTS All of
Its Old Officers.

Samuel Gompers was reelected president
| of the American Federation of Labor by q
! practically unanimous vote at the closing
session of the eighteenth annual conven-
| ton of that organization at Kansas City
| yesterday. The convention adjourned sine
| die at o'clock. Detroit, Mich, was de-
| cided upon as the next place of meeting.
With the exception of the fourth, fifth
| and sixth vice presidents and three fra
| ternal delegates, the rest of the old Off
| cials were elected without any opposition
The remainder of the ticket follows:
| First vice president, P. j. MCGUIRE, Phil
adephia.
Second vice president, James Duncan
Baltimore.
Third vice president, James O'Connell
| Chicago.
Fourth vice president John F. Mitch
| ELL Indianapolis.
Fifth vice president Max Morris, Den
YER.
Sixth vice president, Thomas l. Kidd
Chicago.
i Secretary, Frank Morrison. Chicago.
Treasurer, John b. Lennon, Blooming
ton, Ill.
FraternaI delegates-To the Union Con-
gress of Great Britain: Thomas F. Ira
cey. New York, of the Cigarmakers' Union
and James O'Connell Chicago, of the Ma
chnists' Union.
To the Trade and Labor Congress of Can
ada-John f. OSullivan, Boston, of the
Massachusetts, state branch.
The convention spent most of the day in
amending its constitution and providing
means for widening the scope of it's work.
The federation increased the per capita
tax upon members of trades union organi-
cations from three-fourths of one per cent
to five cents per month, the money to be
used to support the federation.
President Gompers himself objected to
delegates strongly
favor of it. On every hand they declared
that an increased revenue was needed to
carry on the work of organization so as
to strengthen the labor cause.
The resolution of j. F. O'Sullivan of Bos-
ton, looking to bill III Congress to i'm
pose an internal revenue tax against all
factories employing women and children
overtime was killed. The committee on
laws reported against the measure the
ground that it would legaize the employ
ment of children as laborers. In support
of his resolution, Mr.. O'Sullivan said that
he had been before the legislature of
Massachusetts when lawyers argued the
consdtutionality of an act to tax factories
which employed children. He said that
these lawyers all agreed that such tax
was constitutional. and that it was gen.
orally agreed that the only way to stop
factory keepers from hiring children was
to tax them out of existence.
Mr.. O'Sullivan proposed that such fac
tories be made to pay an internal revenue
tax of fifty per cent of their gross
products.
Mr.. O'Sulivan said he believed that the
employment of children could never be
checked until the women workers of the
land identified themselves with the trades
unions. He was certain, too. that women
would never receive equal pay with men
until they showed a strength united
enough to force it upon their employers.
Isaac Governs resolution asking that the
discussion of affiliated unions of the King
y t.lf fnrIl E'trar N1o of fin n n
federation be recommended by the Ameri-
can Federation, was killed without dis
cussion. and a number of measures not of
general interest were disposed Of
Before adjourning the convention listened
to farewell addresses by British Delegates
William IuSkin and William YhOru.