The sun., 1902-11-16
PRESIDENT ELIOT DENOUNCED.
RESOLUTIONS AT TIE FEDERA.
TION or LABOR MEETING.
GOinpers Men Profess to lie Shocked Re.
cause the Head OF Harvard Said
That the NOn.ln niOn Man Is q Hero
New Rules on Raising strike Funds.

view Rules ON Raising Strike Funds.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. l5.-The American
Federation of Labor held its mos, important
meeting thus far to-day. The Committee
on Local Unions reported the folio wing rules
III regard to the regulation Of strikes:
The subject of money for defens funds
during strikes and lock-outs was first con-
sidered. The committee declared that no
strike in future shall be legal unless recog-
niaed by the president of the local union
concerned and approved by the Executive
Council OF such union and by the president
and Executive Council of the American
Federation Of Labor. A strike of any local
union, according to the report, can only he
decided upon by vote of three-fourths
OF all the members of that local body, and
all the members 80 voting shall be in good
standing with their dues paid up. The
local union itself must be III good standin
with the American Federation Of Labor for
at least one year before the decision 10
strike can be arrived AT lawfully,
For the first two weeks no defence fund
Is TO he paid to any striking member Of any
. local union. After strike has been under
headway for four ks all members re-
porting daily at the ir local union head
quarters may receive - week. Those
who do not report daily get nothing. Any
member of the local union who gets three
days of work a week is not entitled to any
defence fund
The members Of all local unions are to be
assessed cents month each for the bene-
fit Of the defence fund.- and at least 5000
shall AT all times bo kept in the treasury
for the purpose of strike defence.
ID. A. Driscols, a delegate from Massa-
chusetts, introdut ed this resolution con-
demning President Eliot of Harvard:
Whcrcds, The head of the foremost Ameri-
can university. President Charles " Eliot of
Harvard. III public statement made before
lN2. Canoui2ed TIA" "sCab." claiming that ln
was . very good type of III" modern hero;
Rcsolrcd That the American Federation
Of Labor marvels greatly at this mental bias
plnres the inevitable consequences of such an
uncalled for and ntolcrant attack upon tho
trades union creed by one whose true mission
should be to promote the confidence of the
masses in the Judicial sanity of the teachings
of our universi'in.'
tho American public to tn" fact that in no NO
sphere of action has the traitor to his class
and kind. from the day, of Judas lscariot to
Benedict Arnold. been deemed worthy to re-
ccive the commcndation of the great educa-
tors OF the world. and that the logical So
qucnce of this teaching Of Harvard IL that
association whether that associat ion be tho
union OF crafts or the union of States il un-
The resolutions will be adopted unani-
mously. The speech Of President Eliot
thus critic al was delivered in Boston
in a course of lectures before the Century
Club President Gompers has been asked
by the club to speak there next month and
vii reply TO MIR Eliot
The Federation vot, d 81 coo to orpanjze
labor unions. in the South, as il was con-
sidered that the unions were weak i'm thar
region.
Resolutions were adopted advising the
schooteachers throughout the country
10 unite with those of Chicago and organize
themselves into unions.
More than hundred sets of resolutions
have been introduced NJ the convention
covering nearly every subject under the
sln
The Porto Rican delegates. who sat in the
convention for the first time, are specially
desirous of having the Federation of Iahhr
intervene in behalf OF labor In the island
One of these rcsol int ions asked Congress TO
stop the importation OF native Porto Rican
labor into Hawaii. Another asks for n
union labor delivcranc" for Porto Rican
coffee which will prevent union laborers
from drinking Rio or Java coffee A third
rcsOlut ion asked the President to investigate
the treatment Of lgesea, the Porto Riosn
organizer of the Federation Of Labor i'm the
island. where he was imprisoned six times
for attempting to form labor unions
Other resolutions asked Congress to NON
sion all workingmen over sixty; to stop the
nployment of 'Greaser" or Mexican labor.
which was violating the cont ract labor laws
near the Rio Ora nde; urging shelter houses
and better pay for the letter carriers. nm
proving law against railroad ticket SCALP.
ers. and calling on the st. Louis Exposition
'o employ only union labor.