Denver labor bulletin., 1915-05-08
AL .ofL. Withdraws Endorsement
Journeymen Tailors Union Label
Has Failed to Comply With Mandate Issued BY Unannou,
Vote of the Philadelphia Convention Against Amaleanot
ing With Seeding New York Garment WorkersAUnion

The label of the Journeymen Tailor
Union is no longer recognized by the
American trade union movement, and of
ficers to this organization have been
notified by the A. +. of l.. executive
council that it cancels and withdr,,ws
the Endorsement of the label OF the Jour
neymen Tailors' Union of America
This unusual procedure is the re ,ulo OF
a refusal of the Tailors' Union to obey
A. +. of L. convention mandates, passed
unanimously last November ut Philadel-
phia. and which authorized the executive
council to take this action il the tailor
failed to abandon present tacti.s q, full
explained in the following letter to Sec
retary Sweeney by President Gornpers
Washington, d. c., April "A, 1915.
MIR. Thomas Sweeney. Secretary Jour
neymen Tailors' Union of America
Cor. East Sixty-seventh street an
Stony Island avenue, Chicago, III :
Dear Sir and Brother: The cNecu-
tive council of the American Federation
of Labor is just completing week
session at headquarters. Representative
of the United Garment Workers o: Am.
erica appeared before the executive coun-
ell, entering complaint against the jour
neymen Tailors' Union OF America fer
using the label of the tailors upon ready
made clothing and clothing made by the
seeding faction of the United Garment
Workers of America Secretary Tracy
of the Union label Trades Department
of the A. +. of l.. also entered com
plant against the Journeymen Tailors'
Union for violation of trade union prin-
ciples in permitting such an unwarranted
use Of the union label OF that organic
tion.
Illegal Use of the Label.
at was called to the attention of the
executive council that the official jour
nal of the journeymen tailors Officially
confirms such improper and illegitim&te
use of their label by the seeding iac-
tion of the garment workers which is
contrary to the laws of the Journeymcn
Tailors' Union, which forbids the use OF
that label by any person not a member
of that organization.
"This being the case, where the raj
lors' label has been granted by the jour
neymen Tailors' Union and used by the
seceders from the United Garment Work
ers OF America in fragrant violation OF
the declaration and the mandates of the
Philadelphia convention of the American
Federation OF Labor, the executive coun-
Gil OF the A. F. of l.. hereby cancels and
withdraws the Endorsement OF the label
of the Journeymen Tailors' Union ot
America.
Order of Philadelphia Convention.
President Gompers was directed To
notify the general secretary OF the JoAr-
neymen Tailors' Union of America and
all central bodies, national and interna-
tional unions that the Endorsement here
tofore given to the label of the Journey
men Tailors' Union of America is can
celed and withdrawn and shall so stand
until the Journeymen Tailors' Union
complies fully with the decisions OF the
Philadelphia convention, tOwit, resume,
by referendum vote their former title
THE Journeymen Tailors' Union of Am
erica and cease to trespass on the jur-