The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-15
LABOR FEDERATION.
Report of Committees and Introduce
tiOn of Resolutions Take up the
Session.

Report of Committees and Introduce
ton of Resolutions Take up the
Session.
New Orleans. Nov. 14.-Another day
was devoted by the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to work preparatory
for the actual duties of the conven-
ton. Reports of committees and the
Introduction of resolutions took up all
of both sessions. A prolonged dis
pute over a portion of the report of
the Committee on Credentials occupied
the greater part of the morning and
a general discussion of the report of
the Committee on Rules took up what
of the afternoon was not given over
to the reception of the resolutions in
troduced by the various delegates.
No action was taken on any of the
resolutions. Eighty-seven resolutions
were submitted. Many of them relat-
ed to minor points of organization, to
requests that various firms he placed
on the unfair" list and to claims of
jurisdiction. Outside of these the fol-
lowing are the resolutions of chief
interest:
That the United States government
be asked to return to Porto Rico
those people who were induced to leave
that island for Hawaii under fake
promises of better industrial condi-
tons"
That any man who shall have reach
ed the age of 60 years. who is a nat
uralized citizen, and has lived twenty
one years in this country, and whose
average annual income has been less
than $1,000 per annum, be given a life
pension of S12 per month.
That all applicants for charters in
fhn American EaAaro e
shall give clear and sharp definition of
trade lines in order to prevent conflict
ing claims of jurisdiction.
That the national headquarters be
removed from Washington to Denver
That a protest be made against the
ship subsidy bill as it is calculated to
extend over the sea the same monopoly
held by the railroads on land, and
that the federation encourage the de-
Velopment of naturalized body Of
American seamen.
That protest be made against the
forcible return of deserving seamen
from private vessels. No allusion is
made to ships of war.
That 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 La
tin-American states"
That the federation protest against
the harsh treatment given labor or
ganizers in Porto Rico under the old
Spanish laws of the island.
That the 1900 employees of the Ma
tional Bureau of Engraving and
Printing be unionized.
For the recognition of the principles
of international socialism
Promptly at o'clock President
Gompers called for the presentation of
resolutions, and for an hour they came
in 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 delegates of the United Brewery
Workers was not sustained and that
they should be allowed to act. The
second was that the dispute over the
seating of Delegate Cole of the sheet
metal workers had been compromised
and that p. j. Downey the contestant.
would act jointly with Delegate Cole.
the vote being equally divided between
them. Both portions of the report
were adopted.
The Committee on Rules submitted
its report and after a long debate over
several minor points adjournment was
taken until tomorrow morning.