Evening star., 1934-10-10
RIFT IN At. Of |.
LOOMS OVER SLUR
Resentment Flames When
Speaker Calls New Men,
berS Rubbish"
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 10
Bitter resentment of trade union
leaders against the description Of their
new members as rubbish" brought
borebodings Of a tempest today on the
floor of the American Federation of
labor Convention here.
Refusing to let go unchallenged the
insinuation these new members do not
measure up to the caliber Of older
members of the A. F. of L.. Francis j.
German, head of the United Textile
Workers, declared he will move such
inferences be stricken from the con-
vention records.
The threatened fight revolves
around loudly booed statement made
before the convention yesterday by
Daniel j. Tobin, international presi-
dent of the Teamsters' Union.
Tobin Booed for SIur.
While pleading that drivers of beer
wagons should come under the juris-
diction of the Teamsters rather than
the Brewery Workers Union, Tobin
declared:
Our organization is made up of
stanch unionists We have none of
the rubbish that has come into other
organizations during the last year"
The prolonged "boos" breaking out
after this remark were the first, A F..
Of L. veterans said, they ever had
heard on the convention floor against
an international union president.
The buzz of criticism heard against
Tobin'S statement preSaged the posi-
bility Germans motion today might
evoke discussion overshadowing tenn
porarily the building trades depart
ment dispute and the preliminary re-
port of the Resolutions Committee
The building trades controversy
| comes before the convention this after
noon when the Adjustment Com
mittee brings in its report.
The department refused in its con-
vention a week before the general
A. 2. OF l.. meeting to seat delegates
from the carpenters, bricklayers and
electrical workers international unions.
Legal Meeting Expected.
The A. p. of L. executive council
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and the department appealed to the
convention. The Adjustment Com
mittee was expected to support the
executive council.
If it does, legal" meeting of the
department would be called in Wash
ington, D. c., within As days. The
three "outcast" unions with the sup
port of four other sympathetic groups
would dominate that gathering, at
which new officers would be elected.
Among matters referred to the Res
olutionS Committee is one introduced
by John L. Lewis of the United Mine
Workers that industrial unions as
we'll as craft unions be given a place
in the A. F. of L.
Union Plan Disputed.
Under the industrial union plan, all
employees within one industry, no mat
ter what their type of work, belong
TO the union in that industry.
On the brewery workers belief in
industrial organizations the dispute
broke out yesterday, climaxed with
Tobin's rubbish" remark. Brewery
spokesmen pointed out their organiza-
ton antedated the A. F. of L. and
should be allowed to remain intact.
Teamsters argued for solidarity of
craft.
BY roll call vote of 1858 to 9,305
the convention in effect sustained its
action of last year requiring members
of three crafts within the brewery
workers to become members of their
respective craft unions. The vote
referred the dispute to the executive
council for settlement.