Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-17
LABOR Federation
NAMES DELEGATE
TO VISIT CHURCHES
Will Endeavor to Interest Relig-
lous Societies in Labor
Movement.

mner of the newly-elected exec
utive committee CT the New Jersey
State Federation of Labor met today
and appointed Donald r.. Munro as a
visitor to the clergymen of the State,
as well to the conventions of religious
societies, synods and other gatherings
OF churehmen, to interest the church
in the labor cause.
MI. Munro was appointed on the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, That this convention, held
August 1915, 1910, at Wevers's Colos-
scum, of the State Federation of Labor
elect q delegate to the Ministerial
Union; and be it further
Resolved, That said delegates duties
shall be to enter churches, Y. M. c. A.
associations, etc, for the purposes of
boosting the union label and defending
organized labor against the assaults OF
its enemies; and be 1t further
Resolved, That the Office of fraternal
delegate shall be called the secretary
OF department of labor and church,"
Motion was further made to appoint
a committee to investigate the contract
system employed at the various penal
institutions in the State. 1t was def
nitely stated that there was no objec-
ton on the part of the federation to
the manufacture of various articles
at the prisons, but that the objection
lay in the practise of placing the goods
on the market. Neither does the fed
Grafton object to the use of the articles
manufactured in the prisons by the in
mates of any of the penal or charitable
institutions of the State.
Committees Appointed.
Committees were appointed to in
vestigate the controversy of the bakers
of Hudson county. The Chronicle
Press, of Paterson, which was called
an unfair publication, also received
consideration from the board. The
question of politics in the federation
vas left for later in the day.
The various committees chosen are:
Convention, O'Lone, Hilfers, Donovan,
Mcintyre and Matthews; printing. Hill
fers, O'Lone and Ford; prison labor,
Mcintyre, Robertson and Fetridge;
tuberculosis, Robertson.
The legislative committee, which
heretofore consisted of -four members.
this year embraces all the members of
the executive board, and they are sub
1ect to the call OF the chair.
The new officers elected by the State
Federation at its convention yesterday
In Wevers's Colosseum also We're in
stalled today. The convention was in
session until nearly 10 o'clock last
night, and all but n Of the old officers
were reelected.
The opposition launched against
President Ford by the Hudson county
delegation fell through when Willard
L. Small, president of the Essex Trades
Council, withdrew from the field and
left only one man. William Cavanagh,
to battle against Ford. Ford was re-
elected by a vote OF 143 to 43, and
cavanagh moved that the vote be made
unanimous.
The other officers elected are: First
vice-president. Thomas A, aBowea of
Woodbury.; second vice-president,
Frank A. Fetridge, of Newark, in
place of H. J. Gottlob; secretary. Henry
r. Hilfers, Newark, n Joseph P.
O'Lone, of Hoboken. treasurer.
The members of the executive com
mittee are: Michael +. Mcintyre, of
Trenton; James Matthews, of Pater-
son; Patrick J. Donovan. Elizabeth,
and James Robinson, Newark.
George Leary, of this city, was elect
ed delegate to the next convention of
the American Federation of Labor. TO
be held in st. Louis. Donald r. Munro
was elected for the new office created
during the convention, that of frater-
nal delegate.
The next convention will be held iE
Camden and will be in session for three
days. instead of two. The date set is
the third Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday Of August. 1911.
Resolutions Adopted.
The resolution asking the convention
to declare itself against Woodrow Will
son, for which a substitute was offered
by the resolution committee, was again
brought up after the election of officers,
and the original resolution opposing
the candidacy of Princeton's president
on the ground that he is opposed to
organized labor was adopted.
A resolution declaring against pro-
hibition, offered by the Hudson County
Bartenders' Union. was also adopted.
In talking about the convention,
President Ford had this to say:
This has been one of the liveliest
conventions that the State Federation
has ever held, and I am glad to see
the vast amount of enthusiasm that
has been displayed. 1t goes to show
that the laboring man is beginning to
wake up to the fact that he has some
thing to live for"