Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-26
Federation Of Labor Convention
Decides it Has No luriSdic-
ton Over Engineers
DIFFERENCES WERE COMPARED
Porto Rlean Delegate Says Workmcns
Condition Ia the Island is Worse
Than I'm der Spanish Rule.

San Francisco. Nov. 2j--Ader spend.
Ing almost the entire day In a bitter
debate. the differences between the
Brewery Workers union and the IN.
tcnauonal Brotherhood Of Engineers,
Firemen and Transfers were settled by
the American Federation Of Labor
The vote on every point at issue, with
one minor exception, was against the
Brewery Workers union,
The Brewery Workers union claimed
that all hremen, engineers and
toamsters employed about brewerles
should join and come under The iurls-
dlctlon OF the Brewery Workers un-
lOn
The representatives Of the lnterna-
tlonal Brotherhood OF Engineers, Fire.
men and Transfers objected 90 this,
and introduced a resolution to the Of.
feet that an workers In broWeries be
organized according 10 their respective
crafts aud asked the convention to
vote that an engineers, nremen aud
transfers now IN the Brewery Workers
union shall leave the same and join
organizations Of their respective crafts,
For an hour debate was INDUCED
I'm on the proposition TO substitute the
word may for shall" and the COM
yentIon finally voted for the change,
This permits the engineers, fremen and
teamsters 10 elect whether or not they
shall secede from the Brewery Workers
union,
II was charged during the debate that
the Brewery Workers union had filled
the places OF engineers and fremen on
strike I'm st. Louis and Belleville, ILL.,,
with non-union men, and thereupon
organized the latter
II was requested that the American
Federation OF Labor compel the strlk-
crs 10 be relnstated, and the convention
80 voted, They likewise voted that ali
iniunctlons pending or obtained by the
Brewery Workers union against other
organizations be withdrawn or dis
solved
Santiago lgleslas, representative from
Porto Rico, addressed the delegates,
and said that the condition Of the work.
men IN his native land was worse under
the present regime than under that
when Spain was IN power. He ayerred
that coo Porto Rlcans died each month
from starvation,
The proposition to amalgamate the
three central bodies Of San Francisco
was found to be an impossible task at
the present time. as was the attempt
to adjust the differences between the
brotherhood Of Carpenters and the AS
ISOLATION Of Woodworkers. The dele
gates unanimously voted to use every
EFFORT 10 make more effective the union
label, as It was avCwed that the enc
mics to organized labor were endea-
yoring to destroy the labels meaning
A resolution 10 do away with the
Washington lobby was voted down aft
or the Socialistic delegates had made
speeches In favor OF rs passage.
The Socialists were opposed on the floor
by President Gompers. The latter
bitterly denounced the Socialists for
what he termed their sneerng TRADES
AS an aftermath Of the fight between
the Chicago Federation of Labor and
the American Federation Of Labor
constitutional amendment was adopted
at tonlghts session providing that any
organization or person seeding or be-
ing under suspension by the American
Federation Of Labor shall be denied q
seat in the annual convention of the
national body This was especially
framed to cover such cases as that pre-
scented IN the case OF Delegate Mangah
NJ Chicago, The amendment consisted 1
IN the addition Of the words 'or per-
SON.
An amendment similar In character,
which provided that a city central body I
might demur TO the seating Of an OBJ !
jectionable delegate Of a local union ar |
hliated with an international union |
Joined TO the American Federation OF |
Labor, but not deny the whole local un-
ion representation In the central labor
body, was presented. This covered casos
similar TO that presented In the ques-
ton OF the seating Of William Schardt,
president Of the Chicago Federation OF
Labor The amendment was carried