Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1909-11-10
1t Says These Decisions Affect Funda-
metal Rights.
OLD AGE PENSIONS
NEXT
Representative Wilson Has Drawn
Bill to Be Presented to Congress.
IOWA STATE CHARTER REVOKED
Refusal to suspend Seeding Elec-
trIcal Workers Gets Iowa and
Ohio Organizations Into
Trouble.

TORONTO, Nov. s.-Tne executive coun-
in it's report to tho convention today,
recommended that an appeal be taken to
the United States supreme court from the
Jail sentences imposed on President
Gompers Vice President Mitchell and Sec
retary Morrison for contempt in the Buck
Stove and Range company boycott case.
The council recommends also that an ap-
peal be taken in the original Injunction
case, the alleged violation of which re-
suited in the contempt proceedings against
the three labor leaders.
The report, which was presented by First
Vice President James Duncan of the
Granite Workers union Of quincy, Mass,
says:
I'VE recommend that an appeal be taken
from the decision rendered in both tho
original injunction and the contempt case
growing out of K. We cannot permit these
decisions to go unchallenged. They affect
fundamental rights and either the courts
or congress must safeguard them.
I'VE again enter our protest against the
application Of the writ or Injunction in
labor disputes (unless where an injunction
would lie II there were no labor disputes)
junction writ In contentious between work.
ers and employees is an unwarranted inter
ference with the rights and liberties of
the workers and is intended and its influ-
ence used, to intmidate workers, especially
when they are engaged in a struggle for
improved working conditions"
Iowa Charters Revoked.
In the matter of the controversy over the
! secession of faction of the electrical
workers the executive council gives an ex-
haustive report. Under article XII of the
constitution central and state bodies char
| tered by the American Federation of Labor
are prohibited from admitting to or re-
tanning membership seeding organizations.
The report says:
After exerting every means at ous
command to have state and central bodies
comply with the federation constitution and
suspend the seeding unions of electrical
workers, there was no alternative but to
revoke the charters Of the following state
and federal bodies for failure to comply
with the constitution: Iowa State Fedora
ton of Labor; Ohio State Federation of
Labor, and central bodies of Cedar Rapids,
Ia; Davenport, Ia; Detroit, Mich; Duluth
Mimi; Albany, N. Y; Hornen, N. Y
jamestown, N. Y; Cleveland, o.; Newark,
o.; Toledo, o.; Cornellsville, Pa; Dallas
Tex; Sherman, Tex; ogden, Utah. Ever
EFT, Wash; st. Louis, Mo. Atlantic City
n. j., and Logansport, Ind"
Old Age Pensions Next.
on the subject Of the old age pension,
Congressman William b. Wilson has drawn
a bill to be presented at the next session
of congress.
Referring to the work OF the special com
mittee on Industrial education the report
says:
Organized labor favors that plan of in
dustrlal training which will give our boys
and girls such training will help then
to advance after they are in industry"
The council reports extensions of tn,
idea of cooperation between the labor
unions and the farmers organizations.
Reporting on the work of the federation
in the crusade against tuberculosis, thu
council urgently recommends the adoption
of a resolution demanding laws or regula
tions prohibiting the sale OF second hant
clothing or secondhand bottles unless they
have been cleansed and renovated unde
the direction and supervision of rep
resentative of board of health.
Concerning the execution of francisco
Ferrer, the report says:
THE execution Of Francisco Ferrer o
Spain has aroused a worldwide sense o
indignation and protest At our meeting
held at headquarters shortly after hi
execution, we adopted resolutions expires
sive OF organized labor's protest for tn
cause Of free speech, free press and fire.
education which has found in Francisco
Ferrer another martyr, We of this con
vention endorse the preambles and resolu
tions adopted upon the subject"
In conclusion the active council says:
1.-The great central thought and intent o
the American Federation of Labor is Al
improved standard OF life and a more in
tense loyalty and devotion to the funda
mental and original spirit of liberty o
thought act and expression to all people
The convention then adjourned for tn