The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-11-21
WOULD UNITE ALL =. ..'
LABOR UNIONS

| layers Tor af111iation with the fedora
more likely to win them into the or
! ganlzation by reasoning than by try-
| Ing to drive them to affiliate. The
railroad brotherhoods in Illinois. Pres
ldent. Walker added, are inclined to-
FAVOR joining the Illinois Federation
OF Labor, and he expected they would
do so in a short time.
On motion of President Gompers
the resolution was recommitted to
the committee, ~
City-Owned Street Railways, -.
A report made by a.. committee
which investigated municipal owner
snip of street railways in Europe,
which declared municipal ownership
mad not done as much for the EN-
ployes as had trade unions, was cl1al-
1enged by Delegate Gallagher Of San
FRANCISCO, as an erroneous. conclusion
He said municipal ownership Of street
railways in his city had done much
Tor the street car men. GALLAGHER
declared he considered the areport a
sknoek" against municipal owner
/ ship. - There were no -. speeches
against it. = -. S,ss .>; i, u .@2E:rf: ~.
The convention, adopted resolutions
II.
tinue its efforts to have abolished
eftlc1ency SYSTEMS" by which. work
men are speeded in their work. -
a. resolution favoring an indepenl-
ent labor party was defeated on the
ground that the federation is commit
ted to non-participation in politics.:
Another resolution adopted request
ed President Wilson to issue an order
prohibiting; the United States marine
| bands from competing with civilian
musicians for business. ...s =. =. r.
| A resolution protesting. against GER
tain rental charges placed ON on Pan
anna canal employees, as. an indirect
| reduction in wages and breach of
| wage agreements, was adopted.
| The federation adopted a number
! of recommendations with regard to
! workmen's compensation laws. It
went on record as favoring a mini
mum of Sc 2-3 per cent of wages as
I the rate to be paid to relatives OF
! Workmen who have been killed al
their employment. It also declared
that compensation should be paid to
~ widow during her -widowhood and to
children under. 1S years Of age, that
workmen's compensation laws should
/ be administered by state commissions.
and that employers liability insurance
companies should be eliminated from
the scheme of workmen's compen-
sation: ~ !, = i,
The federation urged that efforts
! be made by it's membership to have
state laws so amended that employers
/ can no longer be self-insured, thus
doing away with physical examina-
tons Of applicants for work by thn
various kinds Of insurance concerns
in which employers insure: 81 MI 81:
| The action of the convention with
I regard to physical examination was
| taken to cover a resolution introduced
| by q delegate from Schenectady, N.
y, which stated that employers in
| New York state are taking advantage
of physical examinations of applicants
| for work to discriminate against trade:
unionists. The resolutions commits
tee made 1T plain that its recon Z
mendations. against physical examina-
ton in connection with workmen's
compensation did not apply to the us--
ual physical tests required iii hazard
Gus occupations. .s ,z,
Dispute Unsettled
The effortssto adjust the jurisdic-
| ton and differences between the Unit
tied Brotherhood OF Carpenters and
the: AInalsamated Sheet Metal Work
8ers' International alliance has failed
/ so far as the present session 81 the
I American Federation of Labor Id con-
Icerned. IS ssss.s .5as III: .s &
The special committee to which
1.-the disnute was ref errndY ~ Ysn,sf 4 4 fl1n ~