Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-10-23
Textile Workers Authorize
Emergency Committee.
Executive Council Too Cumber.
some for Quick Results.
Plans for Extending Power Of
United Textile Association.

| toIi, oCl. IS--lne United
Textile Association of America re-
elected John II. Golden president,
James Tansey, first vice president, and
Albert HILBERT, secretary-treasurer all
OF Fail River, Mass, and elected
Thomas Morgan of Paterson, N. j.,
second vice president.
| To facilitate the ordering of strikes
In the cotton, silk and kindred indus
ries the association today authorized
the appointment of an emergency COM
mittee of five members with all author
| ity in dealing with all labor disputes
that in the past has been conferred
only upon it's more cumbersome exec
| utive council of II members.
This action was takenaft err an ami
mated debate during which President
Golden told the delegates of the en-
| barrassment that had been expert
| enced in the past when he and his
| fellow officers had been unable to or
der men out of mill until after long
delay, because it was necessary to call
| together the executive council from va
rious parts of the country. He declar-
ed that mill owners had an occasions
reduced wages, putting the lower scale
"laughed up their Sleeves at the Of
fcers of the United Textile Workers
because they knew their hands We're
tied by their constitution which made
necessary action by their executive
council, scattered all over the coun-
| try, if they We're to retaliate by order
| ing a strike.
The emergency committee author
| lied today with power to order a
strike can only act unanimously. In
case they are divided in opinion as to
| the ACCESSIBILITY of ordering men out
OF shop the executive council must
| be called upon to decided what course
! should be taken.
Commenting upon the difficulties en-
countered by the officers of the asso-
citation in their work, President Cold
| en- declared that as soon as a manu-
| facturer in any of the textile indus
| tries set up business and became the
owner of half a dozen looms he was
at once possessed with a conviction
that he must have an automobile and
that he should live like a millionaire.
Then in order to realize that ambition,
he SAID, the manufacturer began to
put into effect arbitrary rules to in
crease his income from his employees.
During the debate over the plans for
extending the membership and int1u-
Thomas Morgan of Paterson, n. j., eX-
pressed his belief that trade unionism
in the textile industry in his home city
had been built up from a membership
of 6S to S75 in the last year and every
one of the 81 mills doing business there
would be organized within the next Is
months.
After a lively contest the associa-
ton selected New York City as the
place of meeting for it's 10th annual
convention next year. Charles A. Miles,
Paterson, n. j., was elected national
organizer after considerable conten-
ton over the advisability of Withdraw
ing him from his labor as local or
ganizer in Paterson.
President John Golden and First
Vice President James Tansey were
chosen delegates to the convention OF
the American Federation of Labor in
Toronto.
The executive council was elected as
follows:
Thomas Taylor, Fall River; Samuel
encc of the United Textile Association
Ross, New Bedford Thomas keleher,
New Bedford; Robert c. Barr. Pater-
son; Thomas J. Regain, Lowell; Ur-
ban Fleming. Holyoke, Mass; Thomas
Mcmahon, East Greenwich, r. l.;
George Van Vliet. Tilson, N. Y: To-
bias Hall, Philadelphia; Jesse Walker.
Cohoes, n Y. John f. Moore, Pater-
son; Joseph LaChance. Pawtucket, K.
l., James Renfew, Paterson; Edward
A. Lamothe, New Bedford and Frank
McCasker. Philadelphia.
The executive council was instructed
to take steps for the utilization of the
United Textile Workers with the allied
labels department of the American
Federation of Labor.
Condemning the statements of Dr.
c. w. stiles of the United States Pub
lie Health and Marine Hospital ser
vice. respecting the conditions of child
labor in the cotton mills of North Car
DINA the association adopted resolu-
ton approving the passage by Con-
gress of a bill creating a child labor
bureau in the department of commerce
and labor.