The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-21
MANY MATTERS
 ACTED UPON AT
 BIG CONVENTION
Passes Resolution for an Organ ization Campaign in
 Worcester, Mass.
LEVY PENNY ASSESSMENT
This Is to Help Organize Women Workers-To Assist Organ
 ization of Newsboys.
By CHESTER M. WRIGHT.

Especial to Connecticut Labor Press.
 Atlantic City, June 17.-Monday' session was brief ore. It lasted little more than an hour and half, and an adj ournment was taken until Tuesday on the motion of William Green, secre- tary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, so as to enable the numerous committees to find the time and so1i- tude necessary to wind up committee business.
 Patrick H. Mccarthy, former mayor of San Francisco, reported on behalf of the special committee that had been se- lected to confer with Postmaster Gen. era1 Bur1eson relative to the position of the telephone electricians affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Flee trical Workers. He read the entire text of the order issued by Bur1eson, abo1- ishing his famous anti-strike order No. 9.
 Mccarthy got laugh by remarking that ''the gentleman who guides the destinies of the post office department was a splendid conversationalist," fact of which he said the committee took full advantage.
 Thomas F. Flaherty, secretary of the National Federation of Postal Ern- ployees, suggested that the convention show its contempt for the postmaster general by laying the report of the com mittee on the table, including the agree ment reached with the electrical Wofk- CTS.
 For my part" said MT. Flaherty, q want further assurance that this order by MT. Bur1eson means something to labor"
 John L. Lewis of the United Mane Workers, said he was little disin- c1ired to believe in the statements of such distinguished gentlemen" as MT. Burleson and Edward J. Gainor, pres ident of the National Association of Letter Carriers, doubted whether any thing good would accrue to the post office department employees by MT. Burleson's eleventh-hour concession to the electrical workers.
 However, the convention voted to ln- clude the report of the committee ir1- ciuding BurlesoTl's latest order into the record.
 The convention took favorable action on a resolution providing for mini mum wage scale for the public school teachers of the District of Columbia The scale provides for $1,OC0 annual salary for grade teachers, and $l,1t for high school teachers.
 The following resolutions have been adopted:
 No. 13O, p1edging support to the Ladies' Garment Workers i'll their Chicago negotiations
 No. 125, urging investigation into the cost of living;
 No. 158, denourcing the murderous attack upon members of the United Textile Workers in Columbus, Ga, on May 21;
 No. 174, urging an upward revision of salaries of civil service employees;
 No. 154, denouncing the use of so- called efficiency devices and speed tests in use in the Postal Service;
 No. 187, amended by the committee, urging local unions to affiliate with central labor unions;
 No. 79, urging local unions to aftili- ate with State Federations;
 No. 142, authorizing President Com pers to confer with international union officials to assist in the organization of the iron and steel industry;
 Mo- 8, endorsing the efforts of the Paper Mill Workers to secure the right of fundamental bargaining;
 No. 21, placing paid organizer at South Bend; Ind;
 No s, giving moral assistance to the locked out machinists of the Hamilton Beach Manufacturing Co.,, Racine, Wis. ;
 No. 54, urging greater efforts n or earizing women laundry workers:
 No. 58, giving support to the Timber Workers organization campaign i'll the South;
 No. g, calling a convention of build ing service unions, including janitors, cleaners and all kinds of domestic serv- ants, for the purpose of forming an in ternational union;
 No. 66, giving New Hampshire a paid organizer;
 No. 68, for organizing work in York, Pa, and Frederick, Md;
 No. 70, for eliminating jurisdictional disputes wherever possible:
 No. 71, for fixing standard minimum wage scales by legislative order;
 No. 7z, Ievying a one-cent assess ment on the general membership of the A. F. of L. to help organize women s No. "A, asking federal investigation of the cigarmaking industry in Detroit |;
 No. 80, amended by committee, assisting in the organization of news boys;
 No. 1O2, giving McKeesport, Pa, a permanent organizer;
 No. 1O7, Ito organize the enamel1ng industry;
 No. 1O9, for an organization cam paign in Worcester, Mass;
 No. IF, placing the interstate em- D1ovment of actors i'll the hands ot a federal employment agency.