Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-13

In scoring the so-called efficiency and
scientific management systems. President
Gompers declared as false statements
that the systems have Increased wages.
He charged that the systems work undue
hardship on labor and result in no ma
terial gain.
The fight for the eight-hour day. Presi-
dent Gompers said, Is steadily going on.
and he declared that labor men could find
satisfaction in the fact that the last
Congress applied the efght-hour law to
the construction of battleships. and that
those provisions of the law had been put
into effect by the executive officers OF the
government.
Among the other subjects treated In the
report are child labor, locomotive boiler
inspection, the Danbury matters case, the
Senate third degree investigation, sea-
mems rights. railroad track inspection.
insurance laws. the STRIFE Of the woman
garment workers, the Baldwin locomotive
works strike and the work OF the fedora
TONS organizers. Each is treated brieny.
reporting progress, but without any
Recommendations other than those hither-
to expressed.
Largest Membership In History.
"The American Federation of Labor.
through it's affiliated organizations. has
today the largest membership In Its his
tory" said President Gompers in con-
clusion. Its standing Is sound and pros
poets are bright. In its long drawn-out
legal contests there is more reason than
ever to assume that labOr's cause WILL
win. In q number of important strikes
during the year we have had gains. and
there has been q tendency to continue the
shortening of the work day. to do away
with child labor and to animate the un-
organized masses with a desire to take
part In the great labor movement.
Our movement has no schtsm within.
All opposition to It's policies. its pro-
cedures, its form Of organization and It's
tactics come from without. All who would
divert 1t from its established principles are
enemies. working for the promotion Q. IN
situations foreign to It's character. Ihose
who would change 1t aim at its disin-
tegration. j..
view is the college president who bel ewes
7, in the right of the nOn-unionist TO WORK
below the union scale alongside OF lie
unionist, or the philanthropist who, be-
lieves unions should be mere benevolent
societies, or the editor who believes tnat
the unionist should be always IN MS party
and supporter of his interests, or Lhe
politician who demands that the unioHst
must always vote his ticket
But it can safely be said, our trade
unionism is to witness no integral cnange
in structure or principle. for these are all
to conditions as they develop.
Mcnamara Fund Passed UP.
Secretary Frank Morrison, in his annual
report, made no reference to the fund
reported to have been collected from the
members Of the organization to defen
the Mcnamara brothers, now on trial IN
Los Angeles. The only reference made
to the Los Angeles fight is an item Under
the heading receipts" that shows :le:Oe
to have been collected during the nscai
year ending September 80. 1911. as an
Iished column Of expenses" there Is no
direct reference to even this small ito m,
though STO.7S is shown to have been ex-
pended for legal expenses.
The official statement regarding the de-
Tense CT the famous Gompers. Morrison
Mitchell contempt case shows the de-
tense of the labor leaders TO have cost
the organization s11.594.17 during the MS
cal year ending September 30. 1911. out OF
a fund of $34. O24. II appropriated.
In the case of the United Hatters
strike $1o.e35.62 was s&ent In appeal
ing the decision Of the federal court