The Savannah morning news., 1902-11-20
ENUMERATION FOR GOMPERS.
Shaffer of the AmaIgamated Fails to
Make Good His Charges.

New Orleans. Nov. 19.-The special
committee appointed to consider the
charges made by President Shaffer OF
the Amalgamated Association of Steel
Iron and Tin Workers. against Pres
| ident Gompers of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor, will report to-mor-
row. 1t will terminate in the exoner-
| alton of President Gompers.
MIR. Shaffer has not only failed to
| substantiate his charges, but a mem
| Der of the committee is authority for
the statement that he has never made
any, to that body, at least. He has
appeared before the committee, and
when he came away declared he had
presented his charges. The commit
tee says he did not formulate them.
In the absence of direct accusation
there can be but one end to the in
vestigation.
The convention to-day wrestled with
the subject of the autonomy of trades
councils, and the matter was not ex-
hausted when adjournment was taken
at O'Clock
The chief fight of the day came in
the old struggle between the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers and the Amalgamated Association
of Carpenters. The former organiza-
ton asked for the revocation Of the
charter of the latter because of al
legged practices contrary to the inter-
estS of the trade union movement, it's
avowed object being to force the other
organization into its own ranks. After
several hours of debate the matter
was referred to a commission of eley-
en-, five from each organization and an
umpire, to be mutually selected The
commission Is to meet on or before
March l, 1903, and endeayor to bring
about an amalgamation Of the two
organizations.
The faction in the convention which
is opposed to the reelection of Presi-
dent Gompers has been unable as yet
to fix upon a rival candidate. Vice
President James Duncan has refused
to commit himself in either direction,
and President James M. Lynch of the
Typographical Union is nov spoken of
as candidate.
A resolution, condemning the recent
reported utterances of President Eliot
. Of Harvard College in favor of "scab"
workingmen, was reported upon favor
ably by the Committee on Resolutions,
and it's action was Endorsed 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
called the attention of the convention
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 re-
tain at its head man capable of such
expressions as those credited to Presi-
dent Eliot could by any possibility be
the foremost" university Of the coun-
try.
Delegate Lightall Of Chicago declar-
ed that President Harper Of Chicago
University and John d. Rockefeller,
the founder of the university, 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
endeavoring to counteract the move
ment by organizing the teachers into
unions.
The McComas bill. now pending be-
fore the United States Senate, pro-
yiding for increased pay for all over
time on government works, was in
dorsed by the committee and the rec
ommendation WIS adopted by the con-
yention.
James M. Lynch, president Of the
international Typographical Union, az
midnight gave out the following state