The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-24
Accused of Deliberately and Insidi-
Ously Taking Every Right Away
from the Working People.
CLOSE OF THE CONVENTION
GREATEST CAUTION RECOMMENDED
IN ESTABLISHING BOYCOTTS.
All Wage Farmers Asked to Purchase
Goods Bearing the Union Label
Other Business.

BOSTON, Nov. 23.-After sessions which
continued through thirteen days the TWEEN
ty-third annual convention of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor has adjourned
sine die. Tonight, In bidding goodbye to
his fellow-delegates, President Gompers
said This convention unQuestionably has
been one of the most memorable and most
significant in the history of the whole labor
movement"
What was regarded as one of the most
memorable incidents of the convention de-
veloped just before it's close. 1t was fur
rished by Delegate Andrew Furuseth, of
San Francisco, who, in defending the legis
lative committee of the Federation, ar
raigned the United States Senate, which, he
declared, contained 1.-The most insidious
enemies of labor He charged that there
was a party in the Senate that is deliber-
ately taking every right away from the
working people. He named several sena-
tors who, he said, would bear watching.
Il tell you," he said, land 1 want to
leave these words with you, that there is
in the Senate a party without a name,
that deliberately and with malice afore-
thought, step by step, is taking from the
working people every right the men have
and that is creating conditions which will
make all your legislation in other drec-
lions of no USE" Mr.. Furuseth closed by
telling the convention that Senators Plat
of Connecticut, Lodge of Massachusetts,
and Hanna of Ohio, and Morgan of Ala
bama should be watched with greatest
care "a few more l could name, but if /
don't mention them / will get along bet
ter were his words.
A resolution was adopted asking all
working people to purchase goods bearing
the union label. The committee boy
colt recommended the greatest caution in
establishing boyc0ttS.
vote directing the United Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners to place the wood
workers in planning mills and furniture
factories under the Jurisdiction of the
Amalgamated Woodworkers, and the re-
fusal to grant charter to the National
Association of Steam and Hotwater Fit
tiers.
This afternoon a resolution that the In
ternational Building Laborers' Union be in
structed to refrain from encroaching and
TO cause all its local unions TO cease tres
passing upon the recognized trade jurisdic-
ton of the American Brotherhood of Ce-
ment Workers was referred to the execu-
tive council.
Reporting on several resolutions relating
to trade disputes between metal workers,
sheet workers, bridge and structural iron
workers and similar trades, including one
of the United Metal Workers international
Union, the grievance committee recon-
menueu tnat the entire indtler De reierreu
to the executive council, and that the coun-
ell thoroughly investigate the controversies
and fix lines of demarcation between the
various international unions parties to the
Jurisdiction disputes. Several delegates OBJ
jected to the committees report
Frank Buchanan, president of the Inter-
national Association Of Bridge and Struc-
tural Iron Workers, attacked the metal
workers organizat ton, which, he main
tanned, was "a stumbling block to the
trades union movement and a pirate on
the sea of unionism." He declared that
some of its members had taken the places
of bridge and structural iron workers when
the latter were out on strike
Delegate Sherman, of the metal workers,
declared that Delegate Buchanans attack
was personal. He denied that any metal
workers had taken the places of striking
structural workers. The committees re-
port was concurred in.