Evening star., 1914-05-17
LABOR FEDERATION
FINDS BIG GROWTH
Membership Gain of Last
Seven Months Reported to
Be 69,756.

| After taking action in a large number
| of matters of particular moment to the
| labor interests of this country, deferring
action In others. and taking under con-
sideration D very large number of items.
| the executive council Of the American
Federation of Labor adjourned its meeting
J Yesterday. II is to convene again July
II unless a special meeting is called by
the president Samuel Gompers. to con-
| slider legislation now pending in Con-
gress.
| Applications from number of directly
affiliated local unions for the Endorsement
of new wage scales and agreements were
considered yesterday. some being ap-
proved and others deferred for further
investigation.
Big Membership Gain.
Secretary Morrisons report of the
financial standing Of the federation for
the seven months Of the fiscal year end
ding .Apri, % 1914, showed a gain in
membership OF affiliated unions for April,
1914, over April, 1919. of 90. T56 The
average membership for the seven months
was 2.rii .9nt. as compared with the aN-
erage membership ot the corresponding
months Of year before of BE-
for the seven months OF lol.as4. The
total nrtnber 81 charters issued In the
seven months Was Jog, one international.
fifteen city central labor unions, sixty
local trade unions and twenty-eight fed
erai labor unions athiiating. The bal
ance in the treasury Of the 1eration on
April 30 1914, WAS Slp5 nlS.U1
The counci: took formal action pro-
testing against the ratification of the in
ternationai convention OF safety at sea,
n n j
declared IN favor of the Tdssage of the
seamen's bill before he Senate.
Marble Workers Win.
the application for the revocation Of
the charter held by Newspaper Car
riers' Union ot New Orleans, La, was
denied. 1t was directed that a Joint com
mittee Of two each from the Allied
Printing Trades Council. the Central
Labor Union and the Newspaper Car
riers' Union of New Orleans should
meet the newspaper publishers in an ef-
fort to adjupst the pending dispute
The decision of the executive council
in the jurisdict,onal dispute between the
marble workers and the Bricklayers and
masons was in support of the conten-
tions of the former.
Matthew VOL. president of the Allied
to the fact that a private Htigant had
access to documents and information
which officers of the printing trades
unions had to produce and to give before
the federal grand jury of the district OF
New York 1t was decided that protest
be lodged with the attorney general
against the use by private litigants or
such testimony and documents that SUD-
poenaed witnesses may have been forceo
10 produce and testimony which they
were forced to give in an investigation by
the federal grand jury. undertaking an
inuuiry into an alleged commission OF
criminal offense.
Longshoremen's Plea Deferred.
Action upon the application Of the In.
ternational Association OF Longshore-
men for jurisdiction over marine freight
handlers was deferred for further investi-
CATION. Action was also deferred upon
the matter of organization Of the trans
portation department of the federation.
The exhibit which the federation will
make at the San Francisco-P Panama ex-
position in 1918 was discussed at length
President Gompers and Secretary Morri.
son We're directed to plan the exhibit ana
carry it into effect.
The state of pending legislation Was
further discussed, also the formation OF
legal department. A number OF juris-
dictional controversies were considered