The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-26
LABOR CONVENTION SELECTS ROCHESTER All Old Officers Are Re
 elected .... - MUCH WORK IS DONE
Resolutions Adopted Conforming the Conditions Found to Have Exist ed in Triangle Waist Com-
 pany's Factory

Atlanta. November 25.--After selecting Rochester, N, Y, as the place for holding the annual convention in 1912. re-electing for next year all the officers of the fed eration and adopting without amendment the report of several communities, the thirty-first annual convention of the American Federation of Labor, which met
 here two weeks ago, adjourned tonight.
 Rochester was chosen as the place for the next convention over Seattle, Wash ington and Richmond, after d good ma tured but spirited contest, Rochester re- ceiving so2s votes. Seattle 5554, and Rich mond 2210.
 The expected fight on the reelection of
 President Samuel Gompers failed to ma terialize and all of the old officers were reelected without opposition. After the election of the general officers of the federation, G. l.. Berry of Rogersville, Tenn, president of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants union, and John H. Walker of Springfield, Ills, were chosen as fraternal delegates to the British Trades congress, to be held next September at Newport, Wales. John T. Smith of Kansas City. Mo-, representing the cigarmakers, was elected fraternal delegate to the Dominion Trades and Labor congress, which meets next Sep terber at Guelph, Ontario.
 When the convention adjourned tonight
 it had been in session almost continuous | ly since o'clock this morning, practically
 the whole of the day being devoted to the reading of committee reports and the discussion of factional differences which
 have rent several of the crafts embraced in the federation for years.
 By far the most serious controversy and one which, 1t Is believed, has been amicably adjusted, was that between the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, with 20o, GOO members, and the Shreet Metal Workers, was a result of which the car- penters had withdrawn from the fedora t1ofE rne carpenters have agreed to enter the building trades department and to abide by it's decision in the matter of It's controversy with the sheet metal work CTS The adjustment committee recom- mended that the carpenters be reinstated, and the recommendation was unanimously adopted by the convention.
 The jurisdictional contest between the affiliated and the unaffifiated brother hoods of electrical workers, which hes been in progress for several years, was brought before the convention in the re- port of the building trades department and it's recommendation that a plan for the amalgamation of two organizations, prev1ously recommended by the federal tions executive council, be submitted to a referendum vote of the unaffiliated body was adopted after heated discus sion.
 The adjustment committee also recom- mended the amalgamation of the Interna- tional Association of Steamfitters and the Association of Journeymen Plumbers, fight between whom has been waged with considerable bitterness in Chicago. The report was adopted unanimously.
 After the election of officers the com- mittees on boycott, organization, resolu- tions, and education made their reports which were adopted in full. Among the resolutions adopted were those condemn ing working conditions found to have ex- isted in the plant of the Triangle Waist company in New York, which was de- stroyed by fire several months ago. en- tailing the loss of 150 lives, urging an investigation of the boy scouts move ment to determines It's influence and ef- feet upon labor; recommending the abro- gation of the treaty between the United States and Russia governing the issuance of passports and providing fo rthe setting aside of a day in January, when benefit performances will be given in theatres throughout the country by members of the White Rat Union Actors of America the proceeds of which will go to the McNamara defense fund.
 Tonight all trains leaving the city are bearing the delegates who lost no time in starting for their homes.
 The building trades department of the federation will convene Monday for 10 days session.