Arizona republican., 1917-11-21
LABOR FEDERATION REAFF|RMS WHOLLY
 LOYAL ID NATION
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A. F.
 BUFFALO, N. Y, Nov. 2O.-Without a dissenting vote the American Fedora ton of Labor today reaffirmed it's un- swerving loyalty to the country and a determination to stand behind the na- tional administration until peace comes. The pacifist element, which yesterday mustered a small minority against President Gompers' support of the war, was silent
 The resolution containing the dec laration was reported favorably by the resolutions committee. It was sweep ing in scope. The course pursued by President Gompers in calling a con- ference of the national and interna- tional officers of the federation at Washington on March 12 was ap- proved and all his subsequent actions and those of the executive council with reference to the war were con- cured in.
 The pacifists declared that they were unaware that the resolution was to come up today They made no move for a re- reconsideration, however, and it was pointed out that while their fight yesterday was based on a vote of con- fidence in President Gompers, today's resolution called for declaration on a clear-cut question Of loyalty to the country.
 This resolution with others from the committee on resolutions occupied vir- mi dnx James Duncan made a report at the afternoon session on his trip to Russia as a member of the commission ap- pointed by President Wilson, and Gif- ford Pinchot, speaking for the feder- ated board of farm organizations asked for closer relations between the farm CTS organizations and the American | Federation of Labor.
 The only resolution that caused eX- | tended debate related to the organiZa- | tion of negro labor. It was submitted | by Delegate Murphy of San Francisco and embodied in it's preamble a reso- lution adopted by the International | Negro League and presented to the San | Francisco labor council for endorse | ment The negro leagues resolution | specifically referred to the southern l states" as the scenes of wrongs in- 1llcteQ upon the race.
 The resolutions committee. report ] ing to the convention, assumed no re- 1 sponsibility for the statements in the preamble of the Murphy resolution and recommended reference to the eXecu- tive council of only that part of it referring to organization of the negroes | O. D. German of Georgia protested against the reference to the southern | states remaining in the record and moved as an amendment to strike out | the entire section.
 | The slaughter at East St. Louis came as a result of thefts by starving southern homes," German said q defy any delegate to point to a single | instance of a negro being killed foI
 robbery in the south. 1 resent thi: inference to the southern states. The
 treatment of the negro in the south is
 better than it has been in the north.'
 Finally. the report was amended by the resolutions committee to read:
 Your committee cannot be respon-
 sib1e for and rejects the statement:
 contained in the preamble of the reso-
 lution," and as so amended the repor
 was adopted.
 In his address on Russia, Vice Pres
 ident Duncan expressed confidence il
 the ultimate formation of a stable anC lasting republican government there.
 Give them an opportunity to develop
 their new democracy and there will b,
 born in it national spirit that vii be worth fighting for" he said.