Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-10-19
DETROIT CHOSEN
Labor Council to Meet Next in That
City.
PROCEEDINGS OF CLOSING SESSION
The Work of Organizing in the
Far West
RESOI UTION ADOPTED TODAY

The executive council of the American
Federation of Labor resumed its session
at headquarters in this city this morn
ing, Vice President Mcclure still being
detained by the meeting of the executive
board of the Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and Joiners at Philadelphia.
1t was voted that the federation financial
ly assist the jewellers of New York, New
ark and Providence, with view of the
more thorough organization of the trade
and to be helpful in every way to secure
a recognition of the union as well as a
reduction i'll the hours of their daily labor.
In consequence of the fact that a large
number of employers are alleged to be I'M
necessarily forcing their employees to work
long hours per day under the pretense of
overtime, the executive council passed the
following resolutions and recommends that
ali working people, organized and morgan
lied, follow the suggestion:
we advise strongly against the practice
which now exists in some industries of
working overtime beyond the established
hours of labor. 1t is an instigator of the
basest selishness, a radical violation of
union principles, and whether on piece work
or day work 1t tends to set back the gen
eral movement tor the eight-hour day.
The work of organizing the workers of
the far west was again taken up and the
OH1CecS located at nedQludTlSTS instructed
to keep in close correspondence with the
organizers, and to submit the names of adj
ditonal organizers to the executive council
for approval.
Then a number of grievances and dis
putes of an internal character were taken
up and disposed of.
At 1:30 pm. the council adjourned, decid-
ing just previously that the next meeting
shall be hed at Detroit.
Business Transacted Yesterday.
e -Ja,- OF
the proceedings of the executive council of
The American Federation Of Labor the fol-
lowing business was transacted:
The council having been appealed to to
render a decision and recommendations for
the adjustment of the present controversy
between the Boot and Shoe Workers Union
and the shoe workers of Brockton, Mass,
having received a full and comprehensive
report of the investigating committee and
taking into consideration the entire sub
jeCt matter, decides.
Il That the call for and the holding of
the convention of the Boot and Shoe W ork-
ers' Union at Rochester, n. Y, was legal
and proper.
80. 1t being evident that an extraordi-
nary eXigency in the life Of the Boot and
| Shoe Workers Union existed at the time
| of the convention, in our opinion the course
| pursued in the adoption of the constitution
| and the carrying out thereof was justified
| by the circumstances referred to. No good
| reason, however, was submitted III the 6Vl-
dence for even temporarily changing the
system of electing officers by the referen-
| dunn. but in view Of the fact that the con-
| venuon almost unanimously elected the
| present officers the result IS binding upon
every member.
g We are of the opinion that the revGca-
| ton Of the charters of the BrocktOn Shoe
| Workers Unions was legal but in the inter-
est OF the shoe workers themselves and
| the success and permanency Of the organ
| iZation we regard as impractical the order
| of the general officers of the Boot and
| Shoe Workers Union to continue the boot
| and shoe workers of Brockton members
| at-large.'
| The Conclusions.
| 1--WE therefore further decide:
THAT the general officers of the Boot
| and Shoe Workers Union rescind their &C
| ton revoking the charters of the Brockton
| local unions upon the following conditions
/. That the local unions of the boot and
shoe workers of Brockton call a special
meeting on or before Wednesday, October
%. at which declaration shall be made of
their loyalty to the Boot and Shoe Work
| ers Union:
That they be required to pay dues to the
general office under the provisions Of the
| constitution of the Boot and Shoe Workers
| Union, lie, 16 % cents per week from the
| date their charters were revoked, the pay
| ment Of the dues already made by them to
| the local unions being regarded as the 8 1-3
| cents to which the local unions are entitled
| he Low
| 81 Tba+ The o,a,,oro1 ofT1oors 90 tho poo+
o,d cbna yTnlka,, IT., ~ ~ o3,r,i5
to- - ~ W. - ,1, -. 80 80 80
80, ~ i1ic;Si Us $500 9 -
| - "a - ; ~ l-set 80 WI rSi uoo ~
i,i ~ ~ 10 IA. e
,,,nt ~ $500 a .itiC.ei.S ,dI o1t u
i''e''i'eiS - iesdHy constitute locdi uiiioil'
Conditions in Hawaii.
A letter. was raca;,,ed from tb, rated
r.a1ou -, ~ 9 - I ~ -
lraues Couhci1 OF san FRANCISCO regaIu-
| Ing the enforcement of contract slave-like
conditions prevailing in Hawaii and the
| effort of the cani+aIis+s and Government
tl,a.o =. ,,no IIaIta,, o,,7 I9ort,,,-,a-o 10
There 10 lure l'aiIan anu roi 'ue "ese u"
borers to Hawaii. 1t was resolved lhat
the WIDEST pubnclty De given 10 ms con-
qitloh OF aflarS ana 10 warn WoFkineh OF
Italy ana OF other countries "h-ch may pe
appealed to TO AVOID Deihg ehtrapped INTO
contracting themselves INTO practical slav-
cry 1t was also decided to BRING the mat
ter to the attention of the President.
Inc appilcaion ior charter LOT 'le steam
Filters National ASSOCIATION was approved
the same TO be issued upon the conditions
prescribed by the arbitration committee APP
pointed to adjudicate the differences be-