The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-20
THE FEDERATION OF LABOR.
MANAGERS To DISPOSE OF CoxsfD-
ERABLE AMOUNT OF WORK.
The Typographical Vnl0n Upheld In
Its Fight with the Machtnists'
Union Over the Question Of Jur-

american FsaeTafion or Labor To-Day 10
bring the struggle for an eight hour work
DAY 20 a climax Ia the year ls. Or May
OF tina: year. the granite cutters OF
America Will ask their employers to choose
between yielding TO tfssr demands fcF an
esgsII-hour day or suffer great conse-
quences OF a general strike.
James Duncan the delegate 70 the con-
yeatg0n from the granite WORKERS, an
bounced their decision On the floor OF the
convention this evening and asked the
support % the federation he said the
granite workers had committed themselves
10 the Introduction OF All eight-aour day
Dy inserting IA provision TO mat enc IN
their constitution
Fo!0w.ns Duuean's statement. the couveD-
tson adopted unanimously a report SUBMIT
ted hy David Black Chairman % the conf
IEitt4e On an slEat-aouF day, ple1gtns %
the granite cutters in Their Struggle 10 come
the mofal and material support OF al al
iii.aGu4 organizations OF The American j ID
efatloa % Labor. The speeches on the SUD-
ject indicated a general belief that the EN-
pl0yius granite cutters VIII not STAND CUt
against The demand.
Another sork OF importance accomplish
&c 81 tae convention today vas the settle
meDl " tAe contention between a'is local
and national organizations OF the walters
Acting upon the report o. the board OF ar
nltFatlon appointed asst week, the cousen-
t!on ordered the holding of ! neral VEN
ton of walters IL Ca1cagU OIL March next,
al whIch Il Is expected ali dsnerences VIII
-,
the arbitration board 70 ABIDE by he ac-
ton of the Chicago convention.
The arbitrators demanded and were
promised that the conflicting local unions
III Chicago and s.. Louis should be ANAL
gau.aIeo. The dispute Of the walters mas
extended throughout the country, and at
one tlme threatened To disrupt tae fedora
ton.
The soclaiis; delegates were again sat
down upon Dy the convention today. They
urged ihe federation 10 send delegates 10
4xzfa al 81
be he'd In Paris III $780, A delegate, seek
ing Information. asked Of dessrs. Thorae
and lnskip. the fraterlla delegates here
fron the British trades congress, their
opinion OF the proposed PArs congress.
The Englishmen both expressed the opln-
Ion that 1t would be composed Chiefly of
socialists and advised the federation 10
have nothing 20 do with it. Their recon-
mendaiions were concurred IL by an over
whelm!ng vote
The convention pad It's respects 20 Claude
NJ johnson, director of the national bureau
If engraving. because ne mas adopted the
l2se of machinery in engraving plates from
which paper money Is Printed. i resplu-
son Was adopted asserting that Johnson
Aad repeatedly violated the Instructions of
congress BY using machinery Ia his depart
inent.
The resolution closed with the sentence:
we would hail with undisguised satisfac-
ton the discharge OF tnat official
Another resolution adopted rendered an
expression 0t gratitude 30 Perry y Heath.
fist assistant pas lEnasler general. because
he has issued an order 10 allow only union
labor printing used II his department
The convention again pat itself on record
concerning the woman workers problem by
adopting this resolution:
''In view OF the awful condition under
which women are compelled Ia toll this,
the eighteenth annual convention OF the
Federation OF Labor. strongly urges the
more general formation OF trades unions
OF Ragtaorking women, 10 the end that
they may scientifically and permanently
abolish the terrible evils accompanying
their weakened unorganiZed state. and
emphaticaIly reiteTate the trade union de-
maud that women receive equal compen-
sation for labor performed
The executive council was instructed to
petition President Mckinley for the par
don OF f. W. Clarke, who ~ serving a
! life sentence at Th0mastOn, Me. Clarke
was one of the crew OF the ship jefferson
| Borsn, which mutinied between New
Orleans and Liverpool and murdered the
ships mate In 1876. Three IF the crew
were arrested and one an Eng.tshman re-
ceiNcd assistance from the British gov
erumcnt and got OF With a ten-year SEN
teuce. Clarke and "A sailor named Miller
were sentenced 10 Jail for life. Miller died
and Clarke IS IN iulbecilc. y plea Will be-
made for his pardon.
The federation struck from It's constitu-
/ ton tae cents per capita tax TO support
striking organizations. This was done be-
cause or the Diff culiy encountered In coll
letting The TAX aud for the reason that il
/ has been the means az disappointing many
| striking bodies who expect -'-'si tuIt hcV-
! came.
TIE Irouclad boycott Of the Cigarmakers'
/ Union against Carl Hoffman. the New York
cigar manufacturer. Was Endorsed by tho
shoie Federation OF Labor, ANA hereafter
! trades unionists VII refuse 10 buy ciea Is
! made by The Hoffman company. The cigar
! makers nave been Ia a bitter contest with
Hoffman Tor some time. Recently thr man
| nfArtur~r threw dawn The gauntlet and r.
| fused IA employ any union eigarmakers at
! al Committees that investigated the boy
|