Arizona republican., 1904-11-26
THE TRADE JURISDICTION
One Subject of Dispute Settled in the
 Federation Convention.

San Francisco, Calif., Nov 25.-The most important trade Jurisdiction dis putes, that existing between the brew cry workers union and the engineers firemen and teamsters employed at breweries, was fought out on the floor of the American Federation of Labor convention today. All the men em- ployed about breweries at the present time are organized, not in unions of their craft, but as part of the brewers union. Representatives of the team sters, engineers and firemen's interna- tionaI unions asked the delegates to the convention to vote favorably on resolution making it compulsory for the men occupied in these trades about breweries to join the unions of their respective crafts. An able argument on behalf of the existing condition of things was made by Delegate Kemper of the International Brewery Workers union.
 He held that it was unjust to take i the men from their organization against their will As to the team sters, he claimed there were really none in his organization, inasmuch as the men working at hauling were known as brewery wagon drivers. The l resolution as originally introduced was ] | fremen and drivers employed about ] breweries may become members of i their respective craft organizations l and secede from the brewery interna- tionaI organization if they SO elect. An l amendment was proposed by motion that the word shall be substituted for the word may" It was over this l question that the debate was waged. Representative of the brewery work | CTS union claimed that the substitution
 would mean the disruption of their in- ternat atiOnaI organization. They made
 the plea that after expenditures of time and money to organize all the brewery workers it would be an act
 of tyranny to tear them from the
 brewery.
 Representatives of the engineers firemen and teamsters' organizations argued that unless the question was settled so that men of each craft would
 belong to a distinct union the very
 foundation of organized labor itself
 was threatened. It was claimed by
 them that as the Boston convention
 voted that the brewery workers UnioT
 must regard trade autonomy in the
 matter, and inasmuch as up to the
 present time it had not compiled, th' | brewers organization should be sus , pended from the AmerlCall EGQeFatlOi
 Of Labor until they complied. Claim!
 were made that when engineers anC fremen not belonging to the brewers
 organization went on strike non-unioI men filled their places and were there F upon organized by the brewery work
 CTS union thus working non-unionfSt!
 against men who always affiliated witt
 organized labor. The report of tn committee was adopted, thus scoring ;
 partial victory for the brewery work CTS union As the matter now stands
 the convention believes that a com
 promise will end the bitter fight whicl } has existed between the unions il 3 question for the past four years. I'm
 engineers. teamsters and hremen may
 now elect the organization to whicl i they desire to affiliate.
 The brewery workers union mus ! abide by this decision and put it int ] effect within six months or have thei charter revoked by the American Fed eration of Labor. Charges were mad 2 that the brewery workers organization had filled the places of striking engin 2 eers and firemen in St. Louis and Belle vile, H., and that they had sued ou ! an injunction against the engineers c
 Buffalo A motion was made to hav : the American Federation of Labo s compel the bIewery workers union L d withdraw all pending injunction
 against other trade organizations. dis
 solve all such in force and to reinstat
 the striking firemen and engineers BeHeviIIe and St. Louis.