The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-15
LABOR FEDERATION
PORTO RICAN DELEGATES PRESENT
 LENGTHY RESOLUTIONS.
The Resolutions Provide For . Commit- tee to VI 1t President Roosevelt
 and Ask Relief For
 Porto RfcO

Norfolk, Va. Nov. 14--The American FederationNof Labor today referred to its Committee on Resolutions for early action and report. lengthy resolutions by Porto Rican delegates, Iglesias. San chez and Becorri, providing for a com mtttee. with the Porto Ricans included thereon. to be held bay President Com Pers. who shall. within two weeks fol- lowing the adjournment of the present convention. visit President Roosevelt asking relief for Porto Rico as fol- lows.
 That full American citizenship be granted.
 Practical and necessary economies in appropriations for the personnel of the insular administration.
 Doubling the present annual school fund with salaries of teachers ca Ial to those paid in America and investi- gating why $6o,O00 worth of school books have been destroyed by the De- partment of Education.
 For an eight hour work day and the enforcement of the American labor lia- bilit.r act.
 Radical abolishment of convict labor in public works.
 Suppression of forty and fifty cents, engaged in Porto Rican governmental work.
 Prosecution of all corporations hold ing more than 500 acres of land in vio- lation of the Foraker law.
 Laws to protect agricultural labor, to prevent payment of workmen in chips, or tins, or any other medium than American money, the investigation of factories and improvement of heir sanitary condition.
 Preventing the Porto Rican police from being used to break legitimate trades union strikes.
 The establishment of a branch of the United States Labor Bureau in Porto Rico and a law preventing child labor under fourteen years.
 Addresses by D. J. Shackelton and J. Hodge of London, both Labor mem bers of Parliament; w. R. Trotter of Winnipeg. Manitoba, Canadian frater- nal delegate, and T. w. Powderly, rep resenting the Department of Commerce and Labor, and the introduction and reference of large number of other resolutions. formed the leading flea lures of the days session.
 A notable feature. was the address of Mir Powderly, who declared he hoped the day would come in his time when the President of the United States and his cabinet officers would not consider 1t beneath their dignity to visit and address the American Fed eration of Labor.
 Resolutions were introduced calling upon Congress in the event of an "in- dustrial crisis following the "finan- cial panic" to find ways and means to ameliorate and mitigate the crisis by issuing money without interest to States, counties and cities for the pur- pose of building highways, schools. bridges and public utilities. provided, however, that such work De done at union wages. pHder the eight-hodr day" the money proposed to be loaned to be returned in easy installments.
 Other resolutions introeuced tonay were as follows:
 Calling on all members of organized labor to absolutely hold aloof from all military organizations until the United States provides a military system such as that of Switzerland.
 Providing for a woman organizer or the women wage workers of the Ohlteo States. 'tf7i
 Endorsing the Spight bill in Congress for the relief of the seamen in foreign going vessels.
 Leaving a general assessment of one cent per month for the, aid of the la bor unions in Los Angeles.
 Calling for minimum Of $9 per week wages for all female retail clerks and giving this movement the support or the federation.
 Calling for the building and repair ing of all government vessels at navy yards and a committee to have this Tn charge with a salary of SPA per week each and necessary expenses. hotel eX- penses not to exceed s1.50 per day.