The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-20
LABOR men NEAR
POLITICAL CLASH.
Continued From First Page.

'So SooSo1UuGCAa lU1 LIZ
Before this attack the socialists re-
tired, in good form and firing as they
! fell back. Delegate Barnes replied to
Delegate Gompers, but his artillery was
put out of action by Delegate Furu.
seth, who unlimbered his batteries on
the Gompers side of the field and com.
pleted the route begun by the direct
/, attack. &,r'D
When it came to vote the expur-
gated version Of resolution No. 1913
was carried by a safe margin, the
tlrst victory for the administration
forces. While the people close to Pres
the significance of this skirmish, the
dash and gallantry with which their
general threw himself into the fray
would indicate that he was anxious for
trial of strength on some other meas
ure than resolution No. 1873.
Eight-Hour Day.
The stand Of the International Typo
GRAPHICAL union for an eight-hour day,
and the action of the textile workers
In seeking short hours and higher wages,
were approved and the "no wage reduc-
ITO. policy urged by President Com
The convention unanimously Endorsed
that portion of the presidents address
winch dealt with the proposed eight
hour law and recommended the adop-
tlon OF the bill by congress. The child
F.bor bill, introduced in the senate and
calling for an investigation of the wom-
an and child labor situation in the Uni
ted States, was approved and its adop-
ton by congress recommended. The bill
calling for an eight-hour day for rail-
road men, now pending, was also in
dorsed and the convention went on rec
ord as favoring joint conference be-
for the consideration of labor matters
connected with the recent railroad arbi-
tration bill.
PRESIDENT Gompers' recommendations
in regard to the San Francisco situa-
ton, the nti-tuberculosis crusade, and
the use OF schoolrooms for labor meet
lngs were approved. 80
A protest was filed against the recent
Imprisonment Of Meyer, Hayward and
Pettlhone of the Western Federation of
Miners.
A resolution was passed urging a pol
ICY Of liberality toward foreign labor
movements, and the convention unani-
mously declared for international peace
and the settlement of international diff
ferences by arbitration.
President Gompers' recommendation,
favoring the maintenance of the pres
emit scale of dues in the federation and
opposing any reduction in the weekly
assessment of 25 cents, was adopted.
The elimination Of the proft-making
feature in convict labor was approved.
All for Gompers.
Delegate Andrew Furuseth then took
the stage to continue the reading Of
the committees report. With the ex-
ception of the section referring to the
ship subsidy bill, there was little more
than polite concurrence in the opinions
the report, all of which was adopted
by the federation without dissent.
The anti-injunction bill was Endorsed
and the injunction plan scored in the
good old terms. Japanese, Chinese,
Korean and Hindu labor were included
in a sweeping denunciation of Asiatic
immigration, and demand for further
extension Of the exclusion laws, The
committee saw not only economic dan
ger in the Asiatic invasion, but the
threat Of race absorption as well. 1t
argued, that the Asiatics, who favor
population at the expense Of produc-
tion, would take advantage of the ad-
vanced standard Of living in America to
increase more rapidly, while the Amer
lean, who already tended toward race
suicide, finding his standard of living
lowered, would marry later in life and
rear fewer children.
Slavery was the term used to describe
the employment of Asiatic coolies on
the Panama canal work. "If,' reads
the report, "the canal cannot be built
except by the reintroduction of invol-
untary servitude, it is better that 1t
be not built at all.''
After hearing this much of the re-
port and receiving few belated griev-
ance resolutions, the convention ad-
journed to 2 pm. The afternoon was
taken up with the reading Of the re-
malnder OF the same report, which
dealt exhaustively with every phase
of President Gompers' long report.
Things were stirred up for a time
by the report Of the committee on Or
ganization, recommending in an
amended form a resolution introduced
the Switchmen's Union of North
America. AS originally drawn, the
resolution charged explicitly that the
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen had
been trying by all means in it's power
to annihilate the switchmen IS organ
ization. When the report was read
cutting out all reference to the train
men by name, Delegate Hawley used
forceful- language, declaring in no un-
certain terms that members Of the
trainmen' g union had taken the places
of striking switchmen with the intent
Of breaking their strike and their union
at once.
The Resolutions.
The minor resolutions adopted at the
morning session were: -
That all affiliated unions be urged
by the executive council to, render all