The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-15
BIG BATCH OF
RESOLUTIONS
Wide Range Covered at Fedora
ton of Labor Convention.
PENSION FOR AGED CITIZENS
PROTEST AGAINST coNsTRUC-
TON OF IsTHMIAN CANAL.

At EW ORLEANS. La, Nov. 14.-An-
other day was devoted by the
American Federation Of Labor to
work preparatory for the actual duties
OF the convention Reports of commit
tees and the introduction of resolutions
took up all of the sessions. No action
was taken on any of the resolutions.
They were simply received by the pre-
siding officer and by him referred to
the various committees whose report
upon them will be submitted later to
the convention for action
Eighty-seven resolutions were SUBJ
mitted. Many of them related to minor
points of organizations to requests
mat various firms be placed upon the
unfair list" and TO claims of juris-
olction. Outside of these the following
were the resolutions of chief interest:
mat the United States government
be asked to return TO Porto Rico those
people who were induced to leave that
island for Hawaii under promises of
better industrial conditions
nat any man who shall have
reached the age of so years, who is a
naturalized citizen and has lived twen-
ty-one years in this country, and whose
average annual income has been less
than $i,O00 per annum, be given a life
pension of S12 per month.
Boom For Denver.
THAT the national Headquarters he
removed from Washington to Denver"
For the re-enactnnent of mining laws
Lor the Indian territory, particularly
Tor the licensing of mining engineers
and hosting engineers.
thdt protest be made against the
snip subsidy bill, las IL is calculated
70 extend over the sea the same monop-
Oily held by the railroads on land" and
mat the federation encourage the de-
partment of a naturalized body OF
American seamen.
That protest be made against the
IOrclble return of deserving seannen
from private vessels. No aIlusion is
made to ships of war.
Jhat the federation protest against
the construction of either the Panama
or Nicaragua canals, "as the country
must either acquire more territory or
encroach upon the liberties OF the
Latin--American states"
That the federation protest against
the harsh treatment given labor organ
lzers in Porto Rico under the old Span-
ish laws Of the island
That efforts be made to defeat the
anti-scalping bill before congress and
an CITY ordinances enacted against
That the 5000 employees Of the nation
al bureau of printing and engraving be
unionized.
Aid to Letter-carriers.
That aid should be extended to the
letter-carriers in their efforts to secure
higher wages
For declaration by the American
Federation of Labor that a building de-
voted TO the use of union labor should
De erected IN every town of 5000 or
T10Tn ton
That all demands for increase in
wages or change in conditions must be
nfst made to the central labor bOdies
For recognition of the principles of
international socialism.
To encourage the study Of economic
subjects in all organizations.
The earlier part of the morning ses-
sion of the federation was occupied by
reports of the committees on credentials
and rules. In the report of the execu-
tive committee, read yesterday by Vice
President Duncan, allusion was made tc
a circular issued by the Milwaukee
trades council advocating a federation
composed of city central bodies This
move the committee declared would
result in the establishment Of q BODY
antagonistic to the American Fedora
ton of Labor. To this view Victor L.
Berger, delegate of the Milwaukee Fed
Grated Trades, objected strongly today
declaring that there was no thought of
antagOnism to the American Federation
Of Labor. but rather the purpose of
formulating a programme having for
its object platform embodying NUM-
cipal socialism.
Seat Protested.
The committee on credentials raised
& protest against the seating of Dele
gate Cole of the sheet metal workers.
After a long debate the matter was
referred back to the credentials COM
mittee. The convention then took a
recess until o'clock. It was announced
that the session this afternoon would
be only for the Introduction of resolu-
lions.
Promptly at 2 o'clock President
Gompers called for the presentation of
resolutions and for an hour they came
in a stream. Under the rules of the
federation no resolution can be intro
duced after the end of the second day.
and this afternoon was the last chance.
When this work was finished the COM
mittee on credentials announced itself
ready with two more sections OF its
report. the first of which was to the
effect that the protest against the seat
ing of the delegates of the United
Brewery Workers was not sustained
and that they shChld be allowed to act.
The second wasf'that the dispute over
the seating cSf Delegate Cole of the
Sheet Metal workers had been conpro-
missed and that p. J. Downey, the con-
testant would act jointly with Dele
-gaIg-COle. the vote being equally di-
vided between them. Both portions of
the report were adopted.
The committee on rules submitted its