Evening star., 1921-06-26

Noonan, Springfield. Ohio. president
of the electrical workers. Rickert
was nominated by President Com
pers and the nomination was Sec
onded by William Green. who nomi-
mated Lewis for the presidency.
Daniel J. Tobin of indianapolis
was reelected treasurer and Frank
Morrison of Washington was re-
elected secretary. Jacob Fischer of
Indianapolis and Matthew Woll of
Chicago were reelected seventh and
eighth vice presidents.
Nominating Speech.
The first name submitted as a can
didate fsr the presidency was that
of President Gompers. who was NOM
mated by George Perkins of Chi
cago. president of the CigarmakerS'
Union. A demonstration of several
minutes greeted the announcement of
Mr.. Gompers' name by MIR. Perkins at
the close of his address.
Mr.. Perkins commended the veteran
labor leader as a man with wonders
full intuition, wonderful faith, match
less knowledge, fearless. courageous,
who took a rope of sand and made 1t
the strongest and most formidable
economic movement in the entire world
Under his fearless leadership you
have no cause for fear from the open
shop movement and their hostile
drives" declared the speaker, add
ing;
more lied about and abused than the
president of the American Federation
of Labor. Why? Because this man
has accomplished something. He has
shown Incompatible and wonderful
ability and constructive force
Jurisdictional Dispute,
Before adjournment the convention
disposed of several jurisdictionaf'm mat
ters. The proposal to reinstate the
United Brotherhood Of Maintenance
of Way Employees and Shop Laborers.
which was suspended in December,
1919. because of a jurisdictional dis
pute, was referred 20 the executive
council. The council was instructed
to take necessary steps to assure the
reinstatement of this organization with
IT'S membership of nearly two hun
dred thousand. No opposition was
VOICED on the convention floor against
the proposal.
Heated words were exchanged by
President P. J. Morrin of the Bridge
and Structural Iron Workers and
President Daniel ]. Tobin of the
pute involving these two unions
The iron workers contended that
In certain cases the unloading of
structural iron from wagons and
trucks was the work of iron work
ers. Tobin took exception to this.
The convention settled it by re-
ferring it to a conference at In
dianapolis, with provision for re-
ferring it to three members of the
executive council if the conference
should fail
Recommendations of the executive
council that the theatrical stage en-
ployes should not assume work of
building trades in the motion picture
industry were adopted. with provision
that if the conference did not settle
the dispute independently within fif-
teen days the recommendations of
the committee would be made ef-
fective.
Other jurisdictional disputes re-
ferred to conference for settlement
included that of the machinists with
the carpenters and plumbers. The
oil field, gas we'll and refinery work
ers were directed to discontinue ju
risdiction over the boilermakers and
iron ship builders. The steam and
operating engineers were told that
Chicago fire engineers properly were
under jurisdiction of the fire fighters
The factional dispute of the oil field
workers was placed again in the
hands Of Secretary Morrison and
Vice President William Green, who
were to continue efforts to bring
about a settlement
A resolution. dealing with gold and
finance was referred to the executive
committee. SO
When the convention adjourned al
5:51 the convention hall was hall
empty. s-...-3S-s-