The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-10-15
CHICAGO ONION | ] LABOR
DEh0uhC'Is ACE LIMIT
Federation A1raigns Corpora
tions that Discharge EN-
ployes Over35 Years Old.
Ringing Addresses are Called
Forth Committee Appoint
ed to Frame new Law.

and corporaticAzthat refuse to employ
men over thirty-five years of age were
bitterly denounced Sunday in the meet
ing Of the Chicago Federation Of Labor
and a committee was appointed to
draw up a resolution expressing the
sentiment of the delegates on the
question.
Several delegates wanted a law pass
ed by the legislature withdrawing po-
lice protection from those who refused
| to employ or who discharged man or
| woman over thirty five years Of age,
but this was decided to be impractic-
able. =.
What is to become Of a man after
he has reached the age boycotted by
the greedy trusts?" asked Delegate
Fred Hopp of the cigarmakers. "Of
all the rules ever advanced by big cor
porations that making an age limit is
the most disrepntable.
FirsfCut Wages.
"The trusts first cut wages below
the living poirlf, then they employ
pacemakers to Rompel all employees to
work at the highest tension. They set
the pace that kills. Now they bar from
employment every man or woman who
has reached the age OF reason because
they believe that person over thirty
five years Of age will refuse to commit
suicide by overwork in order to hold
a job
Other delegates charged that the cor
porations and trusts were preparing to
have child labor laws repealed in ord
er that they could employ children Of
ten years Of age.
Thet resolutions committee was in
structed to prepare resolution de-
nouncing the age limit rule and present
it to the next meeting Of the fedora
ton for'adopticn. -
criticise Prison Board.
The legislative committee presented
resolution criticising the state board
of prison industries for arranging to
employ convicts $in the penal institu-
tions at only three trades, instead of
dividing the burden equally between all
TRACES The eonxni ttees stated that the
d
the coifvfct tos rinting,
working and the making Of clothing.
The federation passed resolutions OF
protect and requested the coming con-
vention Of the state federation of Ia
| Dor to do the same.
The executive board, to which was
referred q request Of the Iroquois Me-
moria! association to place a boycott
on HYDE & Behman's theater, reported
adversely The board reported that
Hyde e. Behman employed union men
exclusively in all their playhouses, and
that It would be unfair for the federa-
tion to interfere This was concurred
in.
Conditions Must Improve.
Frank K. Foster Of Boston, for thir-
tv years prominent figure in the ma
tional labor movement and one Of its
greatest orators, addressed the fedora
tion for a few minutes. He referred to
fhe advance in organization of two
years ago, and said that as In the past,
| many OF the new converts had left the
movement.
I'VE have much to learn in the labor
movement" he said. "1nspiration alone
cannot bring about better conditions.
! The unions must be directed by good
Judgment and common sense. But
above all and through all, and remem-
bered on the battlefields where we have
been compelled to retreat, there comes
to me this thought, that there is no
mower in nature or in Parryism that
can prevent the ultimate Improvement
Of conditions through organizat ton. DO
not be discouraged or become pesstmts-
tic. Our movement is evolutionary
and grows little by little"