The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-11-24
AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF LABOR Is CLOSING IT'S
WORK IN MINNEAPOLIS
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furuseth. who unlimbered his batteries
ON the Gompers side of the field and
completed the route begun by the d.
rect attack,
When it came to a. vote the exn,,r-
gated version Of resolution No. 1873
was carried by safe margin, the
11rst victory for the administration
FORCES. While the people close to Pres
iuent Gompers are inclined to belitt1e
the significance of this skirmish, the
dash and gallantry with which their
general threw himself into the fray
would indicate that he was anxious
Tor trial of strength on some other
measure than resolution No. 133
Eng ht- Hour Day.
The stand Of the International typ
ographical union for an eight hour
day. and the action Of the textile
workers in seeking short hours and
higher wages, were approved and the
mo wage reduction policy urged by
President Go1npers was Endorsed.
The convention unanimously indors-
ed that portion of the presidents ad-
dress which dealt with the proposed
etght-hour law and recommended the
adoption Of the bill by congress. The
child labor bill, introduced in the
senate and calling for an fnvestiga-
ton Of the woman and child labor
situation in the United States, was
approved and it's adoption by congress
recommended. The bill calling for an
efght-hour day for railroad men, now
pending, was also Endorsed and the
fo
joint confer ice between the con-
sideration of labor matters connected
with the recent railroad arbitration
bill.
President Com pers' recommendations
in regard to the San Francisco stu
alton, the anti-tuberculosis cruscade,
and the use Of schoolrooms for labor
meetings were approved.
A protest was filed against the re-
cent Imprisonment Of Meyer, Hayward
and Pettibone of the Western Fedora
ton Of Miners.
A resolution was passed urging
policy Of liberality toward foreign la
Dor movements, and the convention
declared for internation-
al peace and the settlement of inter-
national differences by arbitration.
President Gompers' recommendation,
favoring the maintenance of the pres
ent scale Of dues in the federation and
opposing any reduction in the weekly
assessment Of Is cents, was adopted.
The elimination of the profit-mak-
ing feature in convict labor was ap-
proved.
All for Gompers.
Delegate Andrew Furuseth then
took the stage to continue the read
ing Of the committees report. With
the exception Of the section referring
to the ship subsidy bill, there was
little more than polite concurrence in
the opinions Of President Gompers in
his section of the report, all Of which
was adopted by the federation with
out dissent
The injunction bill was in
dorsed and the injunction plan scored
in the good old terms. Japanese
Chinese, Korean and Hindu labor
were included in a sweeping denunci-
alton Of Asiatic immigration, and de-
mand for further extension of the ex-
clusion laws. The committee saw not
only economic danger In the Asiatic
invasion, but the threat of race alb
sorption as well. 1t argued that the
Asiatics, who favor population at the
expense Of production, would take ad-
vantage Of the advanced standard Of
living in America to increase more
rapidly, while the American, who al
ready tended toward race suicide, find
ing his standard of living lowered
would marry later in life and rear few
er children.
Slavery was the term used to de-
scribe the employment of Asiatic
coolies on the Panama canal work.
IT," reads the report. ''the canal can
not be built except by the reintroduc-
ton Of involuntary servitude, it is
better that it be not built at ALL"
After hearing this much of the re-
port and receiving few belated grew
ance resolutions, the convention ad-
journed to 2 p. ~. The afternoon was