The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-19

crsed the committee and organized labor ia general of desiring to 'choke any new ideas"
 Charles c. Shay of New York. delegate of the theatrical stage workers denied ] a. organized labor was engaged in thrcttling new ideas, adding; ".t e are. however, engaged in killing so.caIled new ideas designed to kill the American labor organization as 1t IS to- day
 He asserted that he and many other Helcrates wers conV inotd the Ia Dor move inert would b. much better off with only half as many members, if all those members were loyal. He invited the other half'' to get out of organized laoor and continue its efforts to orlng aoou' social revolutions outside of the organi- zation. -
 TIRED OF CHATTER
 .swe are tired" he declared, of haV- ing YOU ueople come in here and scream about what we should do to run the gov ernment. Those who get up here to ten us such things would do far better II thay would take out citizenship papers and then they could vote.
 After roar of applause. banging on tahles and cheers had subsided "Curley Grow of Los Angeles announced he wanted to be considered radical or rather a constructive radical
 CT want to 20 forward he cried.
 "Delegates have asked us 10 get out be- cause they do not want to listen to us. We won't get out l am an Amerlcah and my forefathers were. Tney loush hl for liberty in several wars. They were revolutionists, and I am glad of it. l suggest to both radicals and conserVa- lives that they do not perturb them selves too much. We have just come through a trying period.
 'sWe all ought to favor changes In the laws that would meet the new concept. Men become dangerous when they nave not the right to express themselves. Ine so-called radicals now in 10 years Will pc considered conservative. The initiative and referendum should be given the rank and file
 I p Frey chairman of the resolutions committee answered all the radical ar guments by pointing out that the rans and file through officers and meetings had complete opportunity to express themselves on any question, ana tna' if the initiative and referendum was practiced in organized labor it would simply furnish a means to enable cer- tain neople to call general strikes and provide an avenue through which inter ests unrelated to labor might get labor support for their own pet schemes to the eventual detriment and even disintegra- tion of organized labor itself
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
 Among the mass of resolutions adopted today was one favoring the initiative and referendum on constitutional amend ments; one supporting all the legislation suggested by President Wilson in his recent message to Congress; one favor ing legislation permitting labor officers in the government employ to have leaves of absence to attend to labor business without injury to their standing; one favoring a living wage for government employees; one advocating an eignt-hou' day and s a day minimum wage fol immigration and customs inspectors or the Canadian border, and one advocating the discontinuance by the government of civil employment for men and women 1T the military service upon the signing oi the peace treaty.
 A proposal to favor passage by Con- gress of a law to govern prices and profits on all commodities was rejected A federal budget system as means oi cutting down needless and "extravagant expenditures" by the government was favored.