Arizona republican., 1917-11-24
LABOR FEDERATION
 ADOPTS PRINCIPLES
 FUR PERIOD OF WAR
| Republican A. p. Leased Wirel

BUFFALO. N. Y, Nov 2S.-The American Federation of Labor tonight by unanimous vote adopted state ment of the conditions and principles that must be applied to industrial prob lems arising from the war so far as union labor is concerned.
 The declaration is regarded as in line with the general understanding that has existed between President Wilson and President Gompers but there are some points that had been in doubt which the statement clarified
 The declaration does not say there shall be no strikes
 Tt is advisable the final paragraph says, that production should not cease because of an apparent injustice or oversight contained in an award, for it is necessary to the nations produc tion as well as the welfare of the trade union movement that there should be no cessation of work except as a last resort.
 The right to organize is claimed as essential to the solution of all problems arising between empiOyes and labor, and equal repetition will be asked with the employer on all wage boards and commissions.
 Wage conditions, the statement says, will be governed by several vital fac tors to be considered apart from the increased cost of living, some of these factors mentioned being the compara- tive wage scale in other establishments in the same district and whether it was reached by collective bargaining be- tween employer and employe. The convention adjourned at mid night with the election of officers as <, I Tr-ln ,f h1fr fcr% fr morrow.
 The American Federation of Labor today reaffirmed it's position against government by injunc;ion and declared that any injunction dealing with the relationship of employer and employe based on the dictum that labor is prop erty be held as usurpation and dis regarded let the consequences be what | they may The declaration was adopted in con- nection with a resolution relating to a
 recent decision of the supreme court of i strikers from picketing. The resolution asked the convention to condemn the
 "reactionary attitude" of the court and
 to give it's best counsel and effort to the affected workers.
 A committee favorably reporting the resolution to the convention added:
 This committee holds that decisions and practices of this kind are more 1 harmful to our government than any | other influence in our land. The time
 is here when the legislative agencies of our state governments must be the
 exclusive means for the making of laws and rules of conduct. The courts must be denied the powers never intended to be exercised by courts. Government i by injunction must end. Your committe holds that govern ment by our courts by injunctions for
 the benefit of the employing interests is in conflict with and contrary to the rights, liberties and freedom of our people,"
 The election of officers was made a special order of business for tomorrow morning. No opposition to President Gompers and his associates is looked for.
 The convention has more than so
 resolutions to act upon and several committees to hear. Final adjourn
 ment probably will no, come until late Saturday night.
 An application of several local unions | of bookkeepers, stenographers and l typewriters for a national charter | brought to the convention floor diffi- 1 culties that have involved the clerical 1 forces of the headquarters at Washing ton. in connection with which w. M Pollock of Washington issued a circu- lar attacking Secretary Frank Morri- son.
 The circular proved a boomerang | being the principal cause of the con- vention voting to adopt a committee
 report refusing to grant the national 1 charter sought. Secretary Morrison was accused of not following the pre- cepts of unionism with regard to his
 own clerical for3es.