The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-28
NO OPPOSITION TO THE
 ELECTION OF COMPERS
Radicals Did Not Attempt Wres the Seat From the Veteran Year-Prohbion of Immigration Dur ing Favored by and Referendum Extension Denied

A. F. of L. membership simultaneously.
 The committee recommended non- concurrence. Duncan said he expected this measure would be considered as No. 1 of the Bolshevik resolutions. He said 1t was designed to secure government of the workers, for the workers, by the workers" Julius Deutelbaum, Detroit, charged that the internationa1s were there to strangle every progressive prop osition. This was quickly denied by C. C. Shay, following which John F. Frey declared that there was a more extensive use of the initiative and ref erendum i'll the American Federation of Labof than in any other labor move ment in the world. He, declared that these measures served democratic pro- gress only when augmented by delibera- tive assemblies and that the method pro- posed by the Seattle delegate meant loss to effectiveness and was a menace to proper settlement of issues. The com mittee report was adopted.
 Postmaster General Bur1eson was characterized as autocratic and un- democratic, as a man who 'in all his smallness, in all his bigotry, has shown himself as utterly unfit to hold office. "
 The convention unanimously adopted d ICAISIlIy 1CSO1uIIOII SlSuGQ Dy Ol1lCldIS of the Railway Mail Association, Ma and the National Federation of Postal Employees, couched in the following language:
 Resolved, that the American Fed eration of Labor in convention assem- b1ed, speaking directly for four million organized wage earners and firm in the halia iaf hat 4Ia of the vast maj ority of rhe American peo- pie, request President Wilson to re- move Postmaster General Bur1eson from office"
 The convention cheered Thomas F. F1aherty, president of the National Federation of Postal Employees, when he said:
 President Wilson, in his message cab1ed from Paris on the opening day of this convention, remarked on 'he reputation of the American Federation of Labor for sane and helpful counsel
 Il think that this convention, by urg- ing the President to retire the postmast- CT general, will once again prove its reputation fer sane and helpful counsel
 We must insist upon an early ter miration of the Bur1eson reign of ter TOT. He has denied the post office em- ployeeS the constitutional right of peti- ton to Congress, and he has stigma t1zed as menace to society their efforts toward legitimate trade union activities
 'He is a man who in all his small ness, i'll all his bigotry, has shown him self to be a man utterly unfit to hold public office"
 Edward J Gainor, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, recited the list of grievances of postal employees against the department, and declared that the convention had no other recourse but to record its protest against the "autocratic and undemocratic labor policy of the postmaster general"
 James A. Duncan of Seattle and Thomas Sweeney opposed ,he commit tees report which favored prohibition of immigration for a fixed period of years or during the reconstruction period. Sweeney said that it was con- centration of wealth and not ;mmigra- ton that destroyed Rome.