The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-11-15
DUNCAN HOLDS THE CENTER OF STAGE AT LABOR MEETING Reports Resume of Work Done By Federation Dur
 ing Past Year REPORTS INSURGENCY AGAINST ARISTOCRACY lysss,ss s'sssAs.e- xr es'5ry -''wns1sss-- Reinstatement of Carpenters and Joiners and Steam Filters Rec
 commended By the Execu-
 ..., tive Council

Atlanta. November 14.-Vice President James Duncan held the center of the stage today at the American Federation of Labor convention. He took up the en- tire morning session with the reading of volumnous reports of the executive coun- ell, setting forth a resume of work done by the body since the last convention
 For two hours this afternoon he also held the interest of the gathering with a picturesque description of his trip to Flu rope last August as the federation's rep resentative at the International Trades congress in Budapest, Hungary. He was received. enthusiastically and thanked for his work abroad. the convention then ad- journing until tomorrow.
 He declared the tendency in Europe was to move westward as it has been in America, to Armenia, the Balkan States, including Slavonia, immigration finding a way ultimately to the United States.
 Right now craving for better condi- tions and for freedom is permeating all movements of the middle class and lowly society,"" said MT. Duncan. Tt may be labelled insurgency against aristocracy, or governmental and judicial tyranny. The cry of relief against tyranny and the demand for just definition and admin istration of laws has the dynasty of China on the brink of oblivion and from there to the capital of our own country the human tremor is felt seismically."
 For the next few days committee work will engage the attention of the dele gates. Hs
 Many Resolutions Offered
 President Samuel Gompers this after noon invited them to offer any resolu- tions they had A few minutes later the hopper was swamped. These resolutions range from proposed amendments to the federations constitution to suggestions for International peace.
 Action must be taken on every one of them and some. report must be made on each to the convention. An oyster roast at the brewery Tomorrow afternoon and new fashioned Barbecue on Thursday are the entertainments mapped out of the weeks pleasure seekers. A trip will be made around the city and then; the 1912 convention delegates will attempt to se- cure the next convention city, Rochester, N. Y, and Richmond now leading.
 Reinstatement of the carpenters. and ioiners and the steam and hot water fit ters and helpers suspended from the building trades department of the Ameri- can Federation of Labor at the St. Louis convention last year was recommended today by the executive council in it's an nial report. The reading of the report consumed practically all of the morning session of the convention in session l,ere The committee also recommended the steps to be- taken to unite the warning AIcNulty. and Reid factions of the elec- trical workers by means of conferences between committees representing the two factions Hs9s
 Tampa Conviction Condemned
 The recent indictment and conviction for conspiracy of three officers of the cigarmakers union of Tampa because they advised their fellow workers not to return to- work during the cigar mak- ers' strike there, was condemned by the council. Two of the men have since been pardoned and the council demands the immediate pardon of the third.
 "Outrages of the character as they oc- cured in Tampa,1 declared the council, ..tend tolintensify the feeling among our people that equality before the law Is q siam and deiusion.'
 Appointment of a committee of three to meet with representatives. Of all bodies having for their object the securing of
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