Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-20
TO CLEAR GOMPERS
COMMITTEE on THE sHAFEEH
CHARGES WILL nEpoR1
TO-DAY.
TRADE COUNCIL AUTONOMY.
Labor Convention wrestles with
This Question.
THE QUARREL Of CARPENTERS.
Matter Referred to committe.
which WIN Meet ON or before
March Isl. and VIII Endenvor to
Bring About an AmaIgamation OF
the contestins Organizations
No Anti-Gompers Candidate.
THE QUARREL Of CARPENTERS.

NEW ORLEANS. La. November 1g.-
slider the charges made by Presiden;
Shaner, OF the Almaigamated Asssocia.
ton of Steel. Iron and Tin Workers.
against President Gompers, Of the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor. will report to-.
morrow. It will terminate in the exone-
ration OF President Gompers. Mr..
Shaffer had not only failed to substan-
tiate his charges. but the members OF the
committee are authority for the state
ment that he has never made any. to
that body ut least. He has appeared
before the committee, and when he cams
away he declared he had presented his
charges. The COMMITTEES says he did nos
formulate them. In the absence OF direct
accusation, there can be but ons end to
the investigation.
The convention to-day wrestled with
the subject OF the autonomy OF trades
councils, and the matter had not been
exhausted when adjournment was taken
at o'clock.
Chief Fight of Day.
The chief fight OF the day came in the
old struggle between the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
and the Amalgamated Association Of
Carpenters. The former organization
asked for revocation of the charter OF
the latter, because of alleged practices
contrary to the interests of the trade
union movement. its avowed object being
to force the other organization into its
own ranks. After several hours OF de-
bate. the matte- was referred to COM
mittee OF eleven. five from each organic
cation and an umpire. to be mutually
foH hp
or before March l. 1903. and endeavor te
bring about an amalgamation of the twe
organizations.
The faction IN the convention which Il
| opposed to the re-esection of President
| Gompers has as yet been unable to fla
| upon Il rival candidate. Vice-Preside1t
James Duncnn has refused to commit
| h'uscIf in either direction. anal T'resi-
| dent James NJ. Lynch, OF the Typosraph-
| fcal Union. Is now spoken of as cuudt.
| date.
Condemnation of Eliot.
A resolution condemnins the recent ut
tfrances of. President Eliot. of Harvard
University. on 'scab'' workinsmen. was
reported on favorahly by the Committee
on Resolutions. and IT'S action was en-
dorsed by the convention.
! The first paragraph 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. calf
ed the attention Of the convention to the
word foremost. saving the committee
had changed the word to prominent" as
the Committee on Resolutions did not
think that a university which retained at
It's head man of President Eliot's views
could by any possibility be the foremost
university.
Fay for Overtime.
The McComas bill. now pending before
the United States Senate. providing for
increased pay for all overtime on gov
ernment work. was endorsed by the COM
mttee, and the recommendation was
adopted by the convention
LYNCH WILL, NOT LEAVE TYPOS.
James NJ. Lynch. president of the In
ternational Typograp phical Union, at mid
night. gave out the following statement
in relation to his candidacy for president
Of the American Federation of Labor.
II have declined to accept anything
that will separate me from the Typo
graphical Union. which has recently
honored me by a reelection for another
term of two years as it's president