Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-09-20
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NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-Proposals that the President of the United States be made member of the American Federation of Labor and that all strikes now in progress throughout the country be immedi- ately cancelled in order to meet the present "perilous situation" by which the foundations O. our free democratic government are threatened are contained in communication sent to President Gompers and the exec utive council of the American Fed eration of Labor by the League of A. F. of L. members for partnership and industrial democracy" which was made public here today.
 The league was recently organized by John J. Pierce and Isadore Epstein, who were members of a special com / mittee appointed by James P. Holland, president of the state federation of labor, to investigate industrial condi- tions. The report of the committee, which was published on Labor Day, recommended an industrial truce for six months during which all strikes were to be called off. The report was promptly repudiated by President Hol- land, who discharged Epstein and Pierce from the committee.
 Seven. propositions are contained in the present communication, the first and second of which call for the fu- ture election of all executive union officials, from the president of the American Federation of Labor down to the administrative officers of locals, by direct secret vote of the union membership. At the present time the general rule is for election by delegates.
 The third proposal requires that no salary be paid to any local union of ficial during the pendency of strike by his union.
 Under the fourth the president of the American Federation of Labor is given authority to suspend any strike when in his judgment "the welfare of the government or people of the Uni ted States, or of any state or munich pality requires such action"
 The inclusion of the President of the United States in the ranks of the American Federation of Labor is dealt with under the fifth heading. It is proposed that he become auto matically, during the term of his of- flee, a member of the executive coun- cil without vote, and shall have au- thority with the consent of four other members of the council, to suspend specifically mentioned strikes during period of national emergency. The existence and duration of such an. emergency is to be decreed by presi- dential proclamation.
 Executive Council Power
 The authority to call a general strike involving more than one in dustry is vested solely in the execu- tive council of the American Feder- ation of Labor under the sixth prop osition, and by the seventh the pow CT of the council is further extended to enable it to remove any elected or appointed officer of any information al or local union, state federation or affiliated organization.
 In urging these propositions the league says:
 "The United States is confronted \ with perilous situation which is without precedent, and if industrial conditions are not very soon changed for the betterl there will be wide spread misery among the people of the United States and those of the war-stricken European countries. The situation is so serious that the foun- dations of our free democratic form of government are threatened. In our opinion are one way to relieve the world of it's troubles is to provide Europe with the goods and machinery