The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-23
SAM COMPERS
is REELECTED
LABOR HEAD
Chosen President of American
Federation of Labor for
Forty-first Time Has Held
Office Since 1881.
RACE IN RAIL GROUP

CINCINNATI, June 23.-President
Samuel Gompers of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. today was reelected
without opposition at the federation's
annual convention. 1t was his 41st
election to the office.
President Gompers has held his of
nee every year except one since the
federation was founded in 1881 Nine
other officers seemed assured of re-
election without opposition when work
was resumed, but many of the dele
gates were on the tip-toe of expect
ancy on the possibility of last minute
entry of candidates
The one contest was that of the rail-
road group which sought to win a po-
sition on the executive council, COM
posed of the II officers of the fedora
ton. Joseph A. Franklin, of Kansas
City, president of the Boilermakers'
union was the railroad bloc's candi-
date, opposing the reelection of DAN
iel Tobin OF Indianapolis, president
of the Teamster' union.
No contest for the secretaryship
which has been held for 25 years by
Frank Morrison, was expected, al
though William P. Clark of Toledo,
president of the glassworker's pnion,
had indicated a willingness to make
the race, and a movement on his be-
half had been underway among the
delegates for the last few days.
Portland is Chosen
Portland, Oregon, was chosen over
Houston, Tex, as the seat of the next
convention of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, which will be held in
October, 1928. Atlantic City dropped
out of the contest.
! Aside from the election the con-
vention faced a big program of work
| but officials were confident that sine
| die adjournment would be reached to
morrow. Among the questions pres
sing for action was the Federation S
stand on the industrial court, inaug
urated in Kansas, which was certain
/ to draw the fire Of the convention and
! the question of the recognition oi
! Russia. Radical elements among the
| delegates were ready to make fight
on the committee report declaring q
reaffirmation of the federation's stand
against the Russian government as al
present constituted and their efforts
in behalf of the soviet was expected
to provide one of the spectacular
fights of the convention.
In addition to the II officers form
ing the federations executive counci
the convention was to name delegates
to the British trades and later con
gress and the Canadian trades and la
Dor congress, both of which will b.
held this fall.
Other Decision.
In deviding the election of thest
delegates the convention was ais
called on to decide whether the con
vention should name the delegates t.
tn 1928 labor meetings in Great Brit
ain and Canada, or refer the selection
of the 1923 delegates to the executiv
; council The decision of this question
became pertinent on account of tn
change of the date for the federation
) next convention to October, 1923, a.
most simultaneous with the dtae TO
the foreign gatherings.
The reassembly of the convention
found it considering a jurisdictiona
dispute between the glass worker
and the machinis<s, the question u
for decision being whether iron mold
used in the glass-making industr
should be made by the glass worker
or the machinists.
This question, which has come b,
fore numerous conventions, has in tn
past been decided in favor of tn
glass workers.