Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-11-21
SHAfFER IS LAME.
Doesn't Even Formulate the
! Charges Against Gompers.
Relieved That Federation Of Labor
President Will Be Exonerated.
The Autonomy Of Trades Councils Is
Under Discussion.

Now Orleans, Nov. 20.-The conven-
,;on. Wednesday. wrestled with the
s,hiect of the autonomy Of trades
cnuncils and the matter was not ex-
,ous,ed when the adjournment was
taken AT O'CLOCK.
The chief fight of the day came in
tho old struggle between the United
Brotherhood If Carpenters and Join.
ers and the Amalgamated Associa-
tion of Carpenters. After several
hours of debate the matter was re-
ferred to a commission of eleven menu
rers TO meet on or before March /,
1909. and endcavor to bring about an
.malgamation of the two organiza-
tons.
The faction in the convention which
ic opDosed to the reelection of Presi-
dent Gomrers has as set been unable
10 fix upon a rival candidate. James
Lyncn Of the Typographical Union is
now spoken of as a candidate.
The committee on resolutions report
cd. Wednesday morning, at the con-
yention of the Federation of Labor, on
the resolution regarding the alleged i'll
treatment of Porto Rican IabOrers TAX
TO Hawaii Iic ItpoIl
that the charges of ill treatment be in
vestigated and if found to be correct Il
petition for the return of the men to
Porto Rico be presented to the govern
ment.
4 resolution condemning the recent
reported utterances of President Eliot
OF Harvard in favor of ''sCah" work.
ing1nen, was reported upon favorably
by the committee and its action was
endorsed by the convention.
The first para graph of the resolution
as originally introduced commenced
Whereas the head of the foremost
American University. President
Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, etc.
Secretary Agard of the resolutions
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 lis head n man capable of US
ing such expressions as those credited
to President Eliot could by any possi-
bility be the foremost university Of
the country.
Delegate Joseph r. Allen of PhiIadel-
phia, desired that the word be changed
10 the head of ore Of the degenerate
universities
Delegate I.ighthall of Chicago, de-
cared that President Harper of Chica-
go University and John d. ROckefel-
Ter. the founder of the institution, were
both opposed to the union movement and
that they We're trying to secure con-
trol Of the public schools in that city
and that the IabOring men were en-
deavoring to counteract the movement
by organizing the teachers into unions.
No second was made to the motion Of
Delegate Allen.
The executive council recommended
that the application of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
for the revocation of the charter of the
Amagamated Society of Carpenters be
denied. A long debate followed.
contest between delegates of the
International Typographical Union and
delegates of the Allied Trades, over the
ownership of the Allied Printer Trades
label has been withdrawn from the
convention. All parties have agreed to
= joint meeting of three delegates from
each body to be held in January. at
which an agreement will De formed, the
basis of which will be representation in
accordance with n numerical strength
In the local Allied Printing Trades
councils and the formation of su-
preme council. composed of two repre-
sentatives of the International Typo
graphical Union and one each from the
Printing Tressmens National Union
and the Bookbinders National Union,
10 which all local unions can appeal
and whose decision is to be final.
Boston loomed up strongly, as the
city for the next convention.
j. NJ. Lynch. president of the Inter-
national Typographical Union, gave out
statement, at night, to the effect that
ne IS not candidate to succeed Presi-
dent Gompers.