The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-21
LABOR SESSIONS END
DELEGATES ELECT OFFICERS AND
SELECT PLACE OF MEETING.
KILB0URNE IS PRESIDENT.
ONLY ONE CHANGE MADE IN THE
BOARD OF OFFICERS.

Charles II. PancOast Succeeded by
w q. Earle as Vice President for
the seventh Congressional Dis
trict-MacOn Gets the Next Place of
Meeting as Well as the President.
Resolutions of Thanks for Those
who Made the Savannah COnven-
ton Happy and PrOfttnble-GOv-
eminent by Injunction ROundly
Condemn ed-AfternOOn spent on
the Sands of Tybee.
The fourth annual convention of the
Georgia Federation of Labor, which
has been in session in Savannah for
the past three days, adjourned shortly
before noon yesterday. to meet again
in Macon on the third Wednesday of
June of next year. At the final session
Mr.. L. ]. Kilbourne of Macon was
unanimously elected president of the
federation.
The incidents of the final meeting
followed substantially in everything
and exactly as to all material points
the predictions made in the Morning
News yesterday.
There had been some talk of oppo-
sition 10 Mr.. Kilbourne after the retir-
ing president, Mr.. w. G. Gredig of
Augusta, had announced that he would
not offer for reelection, but in the
face of the overwhelming strength, Mr.
Kilbourne developed the opposition dis
appeared and he was unanimously and
enthusiastically elected on the first
ballot.
lows:
Secretary Treasurer-C. C. Houston,
Atlanta.
Vice Presidents-John K. Frizell, Sa-
vannah; o. E. Barlow, Columbus; A.
j. McGahee, Lithonia; Robert Ruff,
Macon; W. B. Earle, Rome; Andrew
McElToy, Tate; William @. Gredig, Au-
guStd; j. l. Waite, Brunswick.
President-L. K. Kilbourne Macon.
Secretary Treasurer-C. C. Houston,
Atlanta.
Vice Presidents-John X Frizen, sa-
vannah; w. B. Earle Rome; A, ],
McGahee, Lithonia.
Delegate to the American Federation
of Labor-Jerome Jones of Atlanta.
Attorney for the State Federation of
Lahore. T. Ladson of Atlanta.
Only IA Single Contest.
The only contest was in the case of
Mr.. Charles H. Pancoast, vice presI-
dent for the Seventh Congressional
district. Mr.. Pancoast was opposed
by Mr.. NJ. B. Earle of Rome, who
won out by a vote of twenty-seven
to twenty-six. The election was i'm
mediately afterwards made unani-
nous.
Upon the election of officers Presi-
dent Kilbourne was formally installed
the retiring president vacating the
chair in a graceful speech. The new
president of the federation is a repre-
sentative in the General Assembly
from Bibb county, and one of the most
distinguished labor leaders in the
state.
A general resolution of thanks, to
all of those who had aided in making
pleasant and profitable the work of
the convention, was unanimously
passed. 1t included thanks for the Sa-
vannah Trades and Labor Assembly,
the speakers at the several public
sessions, General Chairman Blase and
the members of the Entertainment
Committee, and, indeed. all who
helped with the work of reception and
entertainment. 1t included, further,
thanks for the local newspapers, for
accurate and liberal accounts of the
proceedings of the convention.
The resolution was probably heart
lily felt by all the delegates. One of
themSexpressed current opinion when
he said, You people in Savannah can
have us back whenever you want us.
We have never been so royalty enter
taiped.''
Against Assumed Legal Powers.
AS indicated yesterday in the Morn
ing News, the speech of Mr.. C. T.
Ladsony of Atlanta, delivered on
Thursday night had an immediate eff
feet. 1t provoked the introduction by
Delegate H. T. Garrett of Augusta of
a resolution condemning what has be-
come known as government by in
junction" and calling upon Georgia's
senators and representatives in Con-
gress to aid in every way possible the
enactment into law of the Hoar-Gros-
venor anti-injunction bill. This bill
is designed to curtail the powers of
the federal judiciary as to the issuance
of injunctions. The resolution, which
was adopted unanimously, reads as
follows:
Whereas. There is a bill pending in
both branches of the Congress of the
United States. known as the 'Hoar-
Grosvenor Anti-Injunction Bill which
has for its object the curtailment of
the uSuTpeQ power OF the IeQefdl judi
ciary of recent years in attempting to
govern this great country by the issu-
ance of blanket injunctions at the be-
hest and in the servile interests of
soulless corporations in their industrial
struggles with labor: therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Georgia Fedora
ton of Labor, That we heartily favor
said anti-injunction bill, agreeing with
its provisions that it is unfair and
violative of all law and reason to hold
that to be a crime when done by two
or more persons, which is innocent and
legal when done by one person, the
false doctrine upon which many federal
judges have proceeded in tyrannizing
over working people who band togeth-
er under the banners of organized la
Dor for their mutual defense and pro-
lection.
Resolved, second. That we call upon
each and every member of Congress
Senators and representatives. from
Georgia to actively and earnestly sup
port the Hoar- Grosvenor anti-injunc-
tion bill and do everything legitimately
to secure the passage of said bill"
A few other perfunctory matters of
business were transacted, a few per-
functory resolutions We're passed and
then the convention adjourned. While
relatively small in the matter OF at
tendance the convention is conceded TO
have been one of the most successful
In every other aspect, ever held in the
state.
The Afternoon at Tybee.
The delegates TO the convention. with
ha4r "a M fuf. d