Evening star., 1921-06-16
AE.L. ASKS INQUIRY
OF: Marine STRIKE
Calls on Congress to Adopt
Bill Providing for Probe
of lockout"
BY the Associated Press.

oS 'he ASSOCIATED Press.
DENVER. Col, June 1S.-The
American Federation of Labor today
oy resolution called upon the United
States Senate to adopt the La Fol-
lette bill providing for a federal in
veseEation OF the nationwide clock
out"of seamen.
Two International unions have de-
manded that the convention of the
American Federation Of Labor in ses-
sion here instruct President Samuel
Gompers to rearfiliate Immediately the
aeoeration with the International
Federation of Trade Unions.
This became known today. when
resolutions presented by the Inter-
national Association of Machinists
and the Firemen and Oilers Union
We're made public. Both practically
caii Tor reputation by the dele
Gompers and the executive council
ropean labor movement because Of
It's revolutionary activities"
Resolution Likely to Fail.
AS both resolutions were referred
to the committee on International re-
lations, which is headed by President
Gompers. labor leaders predict that
and the action of the federations Of
ficials upheld.
I'VE will probably make fight fSr
our resolution" said Fred R. Hewitt,
chairman of the machinists' union del
esation. I'VE have not completed our
plans. but will meet within the next
few days to decide upon definite &C
tion."
The United Brotherhood of Mainte-
nance of Way Employees and Railway
Shop Laborers. comprising a member
ship of two hundred and fifty thou
sand. will make fight on the floor of
the convention for reinstatement in
the convention, it was learned today.
The union was suspended in 1919 be-
cause of a jurisdictional dispute with
the United brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners.
The entire controversy will be
brought before the convention in a
resolution presented by the railroad
organization, which declares that the
claims OF the carpenters union Can
not be sustained by any method of in
teilisent reasoning nor by precedent"
President James Malloy of the main
tenance of way union are here in
support Of the resolution which the
carpenters have announced their in
tention to oppose.
Demands Protest ON Chinese,
The San Francisco labor council in
a resolution demands that protest be
made to the Department of Labor
against "the leniency that permits
the smuggling into the United States
Of five hundred or more Cinnamon
every month";
The executive council is asked to
oppose any attempt in Congress to
change the exclusion laws so that
they would permit the admission of
Chinese into the country.
The resolution charges that a ma
tional organization of the enemies OF
labor and the people of this country
have been working secretly for sew
eral years to break down the Chinese
exclusion act" and demands that the
federation condemn this most des-
picable conspiracy to break down
American standards in order that a
few Of the enemies Of labor. and the
people may profit from the labor of
the Chinese coolies to the detriment
Of all honest employers"
Congress Is also called upon to "in-
dignantly refuse the appeal of the
Hawaiian legislature in the interests
Of the sugar planters to modify or
amend in any manner whatever the
laws that were enacted after years of
agitation to forever exclude the
Chineaep