Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-06-22
GOODS BOYCOTT
STRICKEN FROM
. RES0LU T|0NS
Committee Report Only
Asks Delegates to Re-
affirm Sympathy.
want Poycott or Moth
ing Boland Wires
Delegate Of BARRIERS.

Denver. Colo, June 21.-The fore
casted bitter fight over the Irish ques
tion was precipitated upon the floor Of
the convention Of the American FEEDER
alton of labor late Tuesday night ant
was at its height when President
Gompers adjourned the convention un.
til Wednesday.
The debate started when the resol,l-
=. tion committee reported substitute
for the four resolutions introduced by
Irish sympathiIers. The substitute
ignored the original effort to initiate a
boycott against British manufacturers
and imports.
Boiand on the Job.
The committees report disposed of
: the Irish question by asking the con-
vention to reaffirm its sympathy for
the Irish cause, by urging recognition
Of the Irish republic and by urging trial
and punishment for British army men
guilty Of atrocities in Ireland
No sooner had the committees re-
port been read when Cornell Foley.
! delegate from the barber's union, took
the floor reading telegram from
Harry Boland secretary to Eamonn de
Valera, provisional president of the
Irish Republic" which said:
The organization (American
Federation of Labor is looked on
to do something for Ireland. We
want the boycott or nothing.
Aim at Pockstbook.
Mr.. Foley declared that there is
only one place where we can hurt
England and that is in her pocketbook"
Christian M. Madsen, of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, then moved to
amend the committees report by ad-
ding clause calling for a boycott by
American labor against British goods
and British companies SO long as the
British government maintains Its bar
barous and destructive policies in Ire
land"
A point of order was raised that this
could not be introduced because it was
part of resolutions already rejected by
the committee. President Gomperc
sustained the point of order and ad-
journed the convention while several
delegates were struggling for recogni-
tion by the chaix.
favoring total exclusion of Japanese
and other Orientals from the United
States.
The government was charged with
fostering and perpetuating' the non
union shop in a resolution adopted by
the convention commencing the sea
mems union for refusing to submit to
the alleged open shop policy of the
IinIta0 StQtaS Shipninp hoa ri
U. S. Aids Open Shop
'The shipping board will permit the
union men to work and live the de-
claration said, only upon condition
that they be sufficiently submissive to
the non-union men and strike breakers
to be tolerated by them"
Hiding behind a smoke screen of
hostility to union labor the resolu
tion said, "the shipping board was tor
)bedoing the merchant marine and sea
power of the United States
Andrew Furuseth, president of the
Seamen's union. in addressing the con-
vention protested the action Of the |
shop as part Of conspiracy to de-
stroy the American merchant marine"
The question of wages is second
ary in this controversy" said Mr. |
FuruSth, but that of conditions is
primary. They are primary because |
of the interest of the whole American
public
He declared that the seamen were |
willing to adjust their differences at |
any time around the conference table. |!
but the ship owners had refused them |
this privilege.
FIay Industry Court.
The Kansas court of industrial re-
latiOns was unanimously condemned /
by the convention as law that makes
for tyranny. injustice and unfreedom
and is inimical to the interests of not |
only labor but the farmers and the
people generally"
Organized labor throughout the
country was urged to support efforts
to have the Kansas law repealed.
The convention called upon congress
ito withstand all efforts to bring about
the destruction Of the department Of
labor, either through giving the power
to transfer bureaus to other depart
ments or to new department or
through the creation of a new depart
ment to be substituted for the depart
ment of labor"
Will Hays Lauded.
Postmaster General viii II. HAYS
was commended for establishing IAN
and humane policy in re-
gard to employees of the postal service.
The federation declined to 20 into
The motion picture business. A resolu-
lion authorizing establishment Of a
studio for producing educational films
n behalf of labor and provision for a
string of theaters in which to display
hem. was deferred to the executive