Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-19
SLAP At PROF. ELIOT
His Views on Non Union Men
Condemned.
HIT AT YALE, TOO
NOT CONSIDERED ONE OF GORE
MOST" SCHOOLS.
One Delegate Characterized Old Eli as
Zone Of the Degenerate
Universities"

NEW ORLEANS, November 19.-The
committee on resolutions reported this
morning at the convention Of the Fedora
ton Of Labor on the resolution that Porto
Rican laborers taken into Hawaii are be-
ing ill-treated and should be returned by
the United States government to Porto
Rico. The committee recommended that
the charges of ill-treatment be investigated
and IL found correct a petition for the re-
turn of the men to Porto Rico be present
ed to the government.
A resolution to send a fraternal delegate
to Germany next year provoked long dis
cussion. 1t was finally terminated by the
announcement of Vice President Duncan
that there will be no trades union congress
in Germany next year. The whole thing
was laid on the table.
A resolution condemning the recent re-
ported utterances of President Eliot of
Harvard, in favor of "scab" working men,
mittee and its action was Endorsed by the
convention.
First Paragraph Changed.
The first paragraph of the resolution as
originally introduced commenced. Where
as the head Of the foremost American uni
versity. President Charles w. Eliot Of Har-
vard," etc. Secretary Agard Of the resoiu-
lions committee called attention of the con-
Vention to the word foremost" saying
that the committee had changed the word
to prominent" as the members of the
resolutions committee did not believe that
an institution which would retain at Its
head man capable Of such expressions as
those credited to President Eliot could by
any possibility be the foremost uniyer-
sity Of the country.
Delegate Joseph B. Allen Of Philadelphia
desired that the word be changed to the
head Of one Of the degenerate universe
ties"
Delegate Lightall Of Chicago declared that
President Harper Of Chicago University,
and John D. Rockefeller, the founder Of
the institution, were both opposed to the
union movement, and that they were trying
to secure control Of the public schools in
that city and that the laboring men were
endeayoring to counteract the movement by
organizing the teachers into unions. The
resolutions as amended by the resolution
committee was passed unanimously. No
second was made to the motion Of Delegate
Allen.
McComas Bill Endorsed.
The McComas bill now pending before
the United States Senate, providing for in
creased pay for all overtime on government
works, was Endorsed by the committee and
recommendation was adopted by the con-
vention.
The executive council recommended that
the application of the United Brotherhood
OF Carpenters and Joiners for the revoca-
ton of the charter of the Amalgamated
Society Of Carpenters be revoked and de-
MED. because both bodies are component
parts of the American Federation Of Labor.
and that the charges had not been sub
stantiated. The delegates Of the brother
hood, Duffy and Bohnen. objected to the
report Of the committee and cohtended
there was not room enough In the country
for two organizations of the same craft.
A long debate followed, and was still in
progress when the convention took re-
cess at u o'clock.