The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-21
VIII Support Ernest Kreft, Printer,
When the Labor Federation Votes
for Officers To-Day.
BREWERY WORKERS TROUBLE
CINCINNATI AGREEMENT UPHELI
BY VOTE OF 1878 TO 4,46o.
Announcement of the Pardon of E
w. Clark by the President Re-
ceived with Cheers.

BOSTON, Nov. 20.-Samuel Gompers will
be opposed for the presidency Of the Amer
lean Federation OF Labor when that organ
ization elects officers tomorrow. The Sc
cial!stic element in the convention held eau
ouses during the noe recess to-day and
decided TO nominate d sgate Ernest Kraft,
OF the Philadelphia typographical Union,
as candidate for the presidency of the
Federation. The speech OF President Com
pers In opposition TO socialism has aroused
considerable feeling among the Socialist
delegates. and determined efforts will be
made tomorrow to elect one OF their own
number president OF the Federation.
The feature Of the proceedings to-day. the
eleventh day OF the convention, was the
acceptance OF the report OF the committee
on executive councils report on the brew
cry workers trouble. The committees re-
port recommended that the Cincinnati
agreement SO called. be reaffirmed, and
this done by vote of 1878 to 4.469.
The convention held an evening session in
order to reach final adjournment either
tomorrow night or Sunday morning
The recommendation of the committee on
executive council that all matters not set
tied by the convention in which jurisdic-
ton disputes have occurred hold over for
one year in order that the questions may
be more calmly considered was laid on the
table.
Vice President Duncan stated that Pres
1dent Roosevelt had responded TO the ap-
peal of the Federation repeatedly made to
many Presidents, and had pardoned Eph-
RAIN w. Clark, who has been serving
life sentence for murder one of the
schooner Jefferson Borden mutineers. The
announcement was greeted with applause,
and a vote Of thanks was ordered to be
telegraphed to the President and congratu-
lati0ns to Clark.
The committee on law reported favorably
on resolution to add two members TO the
executive committee, who shall look after
all matters pertaining TO the building
trades.
With reference to two resolutions relating
10 disputes between the brewery work.
ers. firemen and engineers, the committee
gave the matter TO the convention without
making any recommendations. One resolu-
ton was that inasmuch as the demand
made by the Denver Trades Assembly upon
the Brewery Workers Unions for the sur
render OF the engineers and firemen to
their respective craft organizations had been
treated with contempt by the brewery
workers, the assembly requested the con-
vention TO settle for all time the question
Of craft autonomy. On the other hand, the
brewery workers wanted the convention
10 affirm the right to take In fremen, en-
gineers and many others. Later the execu-
tive council offered report in the case OF
the trouble between the brewery work.
ers and the tiremen and engineers, recon-
mending that the Cincinnati agreement be
reaffirmed and generating the Brewery
have been made against it. The question
led TO general discussion. President
Healy, OF the International Brotherhood OF
Stationary Firemen, declared that many
hremen and engineers who worked in the
brewerieS but who were members of the
organizations OF engineers and firemen,
Were discharged because of that utilization.
BY a show OF hands the committees report
was adopted, 16l To 81.
When the question of jurisdiction over
the coal-hoisttng engineers came up for dis
cusslOn, John Mitchell, president of the
Mine Workers. made an eloquent plea for
indEStrialism. He said that the engineers
represented only / per cent of the men en-
ployed In the mine. The United Mine
Workers. he asserted, had secured for the
engineers shorter hours OF work, better
pay and improved conditions, and in the re-
cent coal strike the United Mine Workers
the only body recognized by the coal
strike commission. BY vote of the Fedora
ton the question of jurisdiction in this case
was referred back to the committee for
further investigation, with instructions to
report at the next convention President
Mitchell announced that he would exert
every effort for industrialism against trade
autonomy.
telegram from the Building Trades
Council of San Francisco was read. invit-
ing the Federation TO hold its next conven-
ton I'm that city. 1t was nearly midnight
before the convention adjourned until to-
morrow.