The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1908-12-05

| OIudud gives encouragement TO the
boys down here. ~
The muddle in the affairs of the
International Brotherhood of Electri-
cal Workers bids fair to be settled
amicably. The Denver convention de-
voted considerable time to unraveling
the tangle, and the results promise
| to be good. A committee was ap-
pointed to investigate and held five
long sessions. It decided to seat as
delegates McNulty and Fay, elected
| by the Louisville convention in 1905
asserting that it could find nothing
| in the Brotherhood's laws to empower
the president to appoint delegates.
The committee further reported as
follows:
your committee further recon-
mends that all officers, members and
local unions of the Brotherhood
make every effort possible to pro-
mote the holding of a special conver-
ton in st. Louis, Mo-, on January IS,
1909, and that under existing cir
cumstances every local should be rep
resented. We recommend that Presi.
dent McNulty and Secretary Collins
issue, jointly, without delay, circu
lar urging the holding of said special
convention and every local to be rep
resented therein. We also recon-
mend that Brothers J. J. Read and F.
j. Sullivan, representing the protest
ing delegation, issue a similar circu-
lar, urging the holding of the special
convention in January, 1909, at st.
Louis. Mo-, and that all locals be
there represented.
"Your committee also recommends
that President Gompers be directed
| to issue a circular to all local unions
of the International Brotherhood Of
Electrical Workers urging that the
special convention be held, that all
local unions send delegates. and to
embody in such circular the action
Of this convention.
Your committee finds that the
funds of the Brotherhood are not
available for the necessary payment
of benefits, and the general work of
the Brotherhood, because of injunc-
ton suits, attachments, ETC., leaving
the organization in condition that
threatens the life and necessary work
of the Brotherhood.
"Your committee, in order to re-
iieve this unfortunate and perilous
situation, recommends that all suits
at law tieing up the funds be with
drawn; that all funds now on hand
or on deposit, or hereafter received,
by either side OF the controversy, be
made a special trust fund in charge
Of bank in Springfield, ILL.,, to be
designated by President Gompers, to
be paid out by said bank on orders
or checks signed by Secretary P. w.
Collins and Treasurer F. J. Sullivan,
in accord with the laws of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Electrical
! Workers.
your committee further recon-
mends that the action of the special
convention to be held in st. Louis,
Mo-, in January next, be binding and
final in accord with the constitution
of the Brotherhood, upon all ques-
lions submitted thereto, and that all
moneys in the trust fund be at the
close of the convention turned over
to the proper officers of the Brother
hood, as designated by said special
convention"
I All this seems to meet with favor,
and there will be another convention
in st. Louis early in the year-th1s
time a "harmony convention" Lin
coin will be represented, of course.
The Lincoln bunch of Electrical
Workers Is made up of live ones"
George Bros have branched out a
bit in the printing line, having added
g German printing department. Fore
man Fred Bremen knows the Ger.
man end of the printing business as
well as he does the English end of
1t, which means that he is an artist
at both.
Last season Lew Dockstader prom
ised that as soon ase he got rid OF
his bunch of non-union printing he
would use only labeled stuff. But