Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-11-17
Labor Leaders Favor Rail road Men Waiting Until
 Supreme Court Acts.
400 DELEGATES TO
 CALL UPON WILSON
Four Brotherhood Hends Will Address Federation of Labor Convention on s-hour Law Monday or Tuesday.
 Workers Plan for World Peace.

haitimore. Ad.. Nov. 1G.-Presidcnt 5amncl Gompcrs of the American
 fcdefatlon or Labor today received
 ueieerams from heads of the four
 prothcrhoods of railroad employees.
 SaylnS they expected to address the
 iederatlon convention next Monday or : tuesday, on the AdamsOn eight -hor.
 law. '' lhc belief appears to be general
 among delegates to the federation
 convention that the convention will
 ,ahe aclion to cooperate with the bro-
 lherhoods in insisting on the enforce
 ment of the law.
 Whilc President Gonpcrs would pot
 commit himself as advocating q strik3
 Dy railroad men if the law is uOe
 made effective, he asked the news
 Papermen why there should not be q strike If the law is not enforc q. ! Wee President Duncan and VIce President O'CQnnell expressed then, 1 selves as in favor of the railroad mon
 waiting reasonable length of tima I'll t1e event of an injunction, for the supreme court to take up the case. Means To Insure Peace.
 supplemental report on intorra- tional relations was submitted today to the convention of the American Federation of Labor by the executive council. which asked and received authority to continue it's efforts in be- half of an international conference after the war.
 { Among the suggestions Of means 10 make effective the purpose 4 ne leaPre for peace, was one that the nations that band together for oeace should make use of both commercial and military forces against the gna- tory nation which might go to war or engage in hostilities With ano1her member of the league without having submitted it's grievances in the proper way provided by the agree. ment. In conclusion, the report said:
 'The labor movement of all coIn- tries have contributed much toward pr ace and justice and mus. do their part in the development of the agen- cies by which their will can bc ex- ercised."
 400 Will Call On Wilson.
 President Gompers was notified late today that President Wilson will receive the federation delegates at the white house at o'clock Mnrday af- ternoon. About 400 plan to make the 'rp to Washington.
 The convention today adopteA T resolution instructing the federation officers to deputize an organizer to visit the Canal Zone to investigate affecting employees there.
 Not Considering Strike.
 New York, Nov. 17-George Sines, rice president Brotherhood of Rail- ,oad Trainmen, in statement here oday said a railroad strike [, re- note possibility, no matter what hap. ,ens to the Adamson eight-hour law. The brotherhood leaders, he declared, rave not even considered calling trike as an answer to the injunction proceedings instituted by the rail- Oads.
 "If the supreme court decides that he Adamson law is unconstitutional he brotherhoods will be right back where they were before the law was ,assed," said MT. Sines. 'I doubt II he court decision would revivify the trike vote taken by the brotherhoods. n all probability, altho I cannot say or certainty, the unions would rave to take a new vote on a strike"