Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-06-21
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for our social life as a whole" the
convention instructed the ex-
ecutive council to investigate the
manner in which wages are fixed
with a view to getting a better
basis than the cost of living for
determining wage scales. Fixing
wages by the cost of living, the eX-
ecutive committee report said,
brings death through a perpetual
ton Of q static condition"
Money For Publicity.
The convention urged all SUBJ
ordinate organizations to contrib
ute to a publicity information and
speakers bureau of the federation
Speakers in behalf Of this recon-
mendation declared that enemies
of labor have established bureaus
through which misleading informa-
tion is disseminated to the press
and public
Cooperation between various
state vocational training and edu-
cational boards so that tue students
may take their dollar because they
earned it" and to promote eff
cheney was urged In resolution
adopted today.
Efforts of postal employees to
minimize night work was in
dorsed.
Endorsement Is Refused.
Endorsement of the world war
veterans, provided for in a resolu-
ton, was refused with the declara-
ton that the federation held to it's
principle adopted last year of i'm
partially toward all organizations
of war veterans.
A resolution was adopted pledg-
ing the federation against all eff
forts to destroy the United States
department of agriculture.
THE department Of agriculture
has stood in the way of those who
have mercilessly bled the farmers
white for years and years" the
resolution said. 1T is believed by
the enemies of the farmers that If
the department of agriculture could
be abolished that they would have
the producers of food products al
their mercy. The organizers Of
the conspiracy to abolish the de-
partment of agriculture have come
out in the open and declare the de-
partment no longer necessary"
The resources of the federation
are pledged against all alleged at
tempts to weaken the department.
Zone q Disapproved.
Resolutl 7isapproving the
second-cla gone rates ana
an increase effective July !
were adopted. The executive coun-
Gil was instructed to appeal to
congress to repeal the zone law
for second class mail and to con-
duct an investigation into the pos
tai rates to ascertain whether they
were greater than the cost Of
transporting mail.
The convention instructed the
council to take steps to oppose any
legislation by congress that would
tend to weaken or destroy the de-
partment of labor. The proposal
now pending in Washington. to es-
tablish q department Of social well
fare was attacked as part of
campaign to destroy the depart
ment of labor"
Campaign Organization.
The non-partisan campaign of
the federation during 1920 was
endorsed and the convention
instructed its officers to take
steps to form permanent
non-partisan campaign organiza-
ton, with local branches through
out the country. A central infor-
nation bureau to operate connec-
tion with this organization at
Washington was also authorized
for the purpose of distributing in
formation regarding the activities
of congress to the various unions.
A proposal to take a. referendum
vote on proposition to raise $lO,-
100000 to finance the establish
ment of five universities of indus
trial and agricultural economies
-four in the United States and one
in Canada--was rejected. The ed
ucation committees report de-
claring that such a plan was i'm
practical" was adopted.
A resolution calling upon the
federation to take steps to estab-
lish ten daily newspapers through
out the country, in as many indus
trial centers. was also rejected by
the convention. Central labor
bodies, however. were urged tol
consider the ACCESSIBILITY of estab-
fishing their own daily newspapers.
Employees want Their Money.
The convention at the request OF
the Trades and Labor assembly OF
Minneapolis, Mimi, authorized
President Gompers to appoint a
committee of three to take up with
the present administration at
Washington 1.-THE matter of the
promise of the national government
to pay the award to the employees
Of the Minneapolis Steel and Ma
chinery company and allied COM
panies.'
The Minneapolis assembly ex-
planned in a telegram that during
the war the war labor board had
made a wage award to the employees
of the Minneapolis company, but