Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-10
Labor Federation Asked to
Devise Effective Campaign.
RESOLUTIONS SUBMITTED
Most Formidable Enemy" Declare
Iron Workers.
ADDRESS BY SUFFRAGETTE
Mrs. Frances Potter Talks Before
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
Many Bodies Unseated.

TORONTO. Ont. November 1O.-Amons
the score of resolutions offered TODAY fol
consideration by the convention of the
American Federation of Labor was one
by p. j. McArdle. president of the Anal
gamated Association of Iron. Steel and
Tin Workers of North America. decIarins
the United States Steel Corporation to bs
1.-The most formidable and aggressive en-
envy" of organized labor, and recommend
ing that the convention devise ways ant
means of making the strikes Of tn,
affiliated organizations now pending more
effective.
Text of Resolution.
The resolution, referred to the commit.
tee on resolutions reads:
Whereas the United States Steel cor
poration is waging a war of extermina-
ton against organized labor i'm the
mills and on its transcontinental lines
and has committed itself to the policy
or operating all branches of it's bust
ness nOn-uniOn: and
Whereas i'm carving ont this no,;cv
1T can only be a question of time until
every union man i'm its employ must
elther forfeit his union membership or
his employment. thereby weakening
materially several affiliated organiza-
tiOns or encouraging other corporations
to begin conflicts with organized labor
therefore be it
Resolved. That this convention recos-
n1zes the United Steel Corporation as the
most formidable and aggressive enemy of
that we believe the thorough organization
or all branches of it's business is the
most important and necessary work that
could engage the attention. time and ef-
forts or the American Federation of
Labor and its affiliated national and in
ternational organizations. and that we
recommend that a meeting be held during
the session of this convention of the
executive officers of all organizations rep
resented, together with the president and
secretary of the American Federation of
Labor, to consider the outline of a cam
palgn of organization among the employees
or the United States Steel Corporation
and to consider and devise ways and
means OF making the strikes Of the af-
hliated organizations now pending more
effective, to the end that they may be
brought to successful conclusion"
Two Central Delegates Barred.
Two more delegates from city central
bodies were barred from the convention
of the American Federation Of Labor to-
day upon recommendation OF the Gre
dentials committee. because they repre-
sented organizations which had retained
seeding bodies of electrical workers.
ed credentials from the Des Moines
Trades and Labor Assembly, and Fl.
Mocheistatter. from the Sioux City
Trades and Labor Assembly.
The United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and Joiners succeeded i'm keeping the del
egate-elect of the Buffalo United Trades
and Labor Council from recognition by
the convention on the ground that the
Buffalo central body had retained in its
membership, in violation of the rules
IF fho foAn Anol ,rntn Of
millwrights.
Otto Fl. thinner. from the Labor Edu-
cational Association of Ontario, was not
seated. a protest which had been lodged
with the credentials committee AGAINST
Delegate John NJ Kelly Of the San Fran
cisco Labor Council was withdrawn.
Suhragette Addresses Convention.
The convention was addressed by Prof
Frances Squire Potter. secretary Of the
National American WOman's Suffrage As
ISOLATION. Until recently Mrs. Potter oc-
cupied the chair of history and economics
in the University of Minnesota, which
position she resigned to give her entire
time TO the suffrage cause.
The speaker referred to the suffrage
agitation in Great Britain and other coun-
tries and said:
81 do not believe that the movement
in America will ever take on the militant
character which has been so exploited by
our British sisters
The reports of John p. Trey of the
holders Union of Cincinnati and B. A.
Larger of the Garment Workers of New
York City, delegates to the British trades
union congress. and Jerome Jones of the
International Typographical Union of At
lanta. Ga, the delegate of the fedora
ton to the Canadian trades and labor
congress. were read and referred.
After fixing 10 o'clock tomorrow as the
hour for hearing the addresses of the
delegates from the British trades union
congress the federation adjourned until
fomorrOw