The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1922-08-11
BY Vermont gate Branch
American ? aderation
Of 4 .bor
WITH FJsy ANCIAL
sUPEs 1t PROMISED
M. P. S. livan Of Granite
vile Elected President
Of State Branch

Vermont. branch of the American
Federation Of Labor at its 10th annual
convention in Waterbury, ending on
Thursday, elected officers as follows:
President, M. r. Sullivan Of Granite
willie branch Of the Quarry Workers
international union; first vice -presi.
dent, Walter M. Aylward Of Waterbury
branch Of the Granite Cutters Interna
tional associations second vice-presi
dent, w IA. Eager, Central Labor union
of Barre: third vice president, William
L. Delaney Of Bellows Falls; fourth
vice president. r. "A. Synder of the Rut.
land car workers; fifth vice president
HI H. Carpenter Of the Brotherhood OF
Carpenters and Joiners in Burlington; !;
sixth vice president. G. Fl. Reagan
street railway employees Of Montpelier !;
financial secretary and treasurer, +. L
Huffmire, Central Labor union, Ruts
land; corresponding secretary, Fred w
Suitor, Jumpers, boxers and derrick
mems branch, number 80, Of @. w. Il
II. Of Barre; executive committee, al
the officers; legislative COMMITTEES
Fred w Suitor, M. P, Sullivan and
Walter Awkward.
Resolutions were adopted endorsing
the quarry workers strike and pledg
ing financial and moral support; TAX
ing the same stand with reference tc
the paper makers strike in Bellows
Falls; instructing the incoming legis
lative committee to have law drafted
introduced, and pushed to passage pro
viding that employers advertising foi
help during labor trouble make the con
ditions known; and instructing the sec
retary to write Governor Stephens Of
California asking immediate pardon fol
Thomas J. Mooney and Warren X
Billings on the ground that perjuret
evidence entered into their conviction
and on the grounds that new and fair
trial would have resulted in an acquit
tai. No resolutions were adopted in re
gard to the coal or railroad strikes.
A resolution was Also adopted in
structing the executive board to redou
BILE their efforts to have all A. F. o.
L. branches, directly or through inter
national unions, become affiliated witt
the state branch.
At the close of the convention recog
milton Of the long and faithful servics
rendered labor by retiring Presideni
Jack P. Mason of Burlington and Mel
son A. Malgrem of Rutland, former Fl
nancial secretary and treasurer, wa
made BY putting them on the rolls al
honorary members of the state A.
Of L. Mr. Malgrem recently resignee
his Office, having been promoted to th'
office OF general superintendent Of th'
Howe Scale works in Rutland. He has
served the union cause FOR the past p
years.
An open air meeting, with large at
tendance, was held on the villag'
square Wednesday. The speakers wer'
Frank Frampton of the Internationa
Of Paper Makers, Charles
kimball of the international Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners snf
Frank r. Mccarthy of the American
Federation of Labor. Following tn,
meeting, the local unions of Water
bury gave banquet in the X. of P
iall TO the delegates and local mem
,ers of the conferences.
About 90 delegates were present, rep
-esenting unions in Rutland, Burling
ON. Waterbury, Bellows Falls, Barre
Montpelier and Graniteville.