The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-02-15
A.F.L. Executive
Council HonorS
Morrison. Duffy
Retired Officials Extolled At
Testimonial Dinner
For Long Service

| rank MOrTlSOn, VINO reClreu aS
Secretary Treasurer of the American
Federation of Labor on December 81,
1889 and Frank Duffy, who retired as
First Vice President on the same date,
were given testimonial dinner at the
Everglades Hotel, Miami, Florida, by
the Executive Council of the American
Federation of Labor, during the Coun-
cil's mid-winter session in that city,
in honor Of their many years of ser
vice as A. F. of L. officials.
Mr.. Morrison was elected Secretary
of the American Federation Of Labor
by the 1896 convention and served
thirty-nine years in that capacity. The
1885 A. F. of L. convention CONSOLE
dated the offices of Secretary and
Treasurer, and elected Mr.. Morrison
to the office of Secretary Treasurer.
He was reelected Secretary-Tr Treasurer
in 1886, 1887 and 1888, but declined
to be candidate in 1889 after forty
three years of service as an A. F. of
L. official.
Mr.. Duffy, who was chosen Secre-
tary of the Brotherhood Of Carpen-
ters and Joiners in 1902, was elected
Eighth Vice-President of the American
Federation Of Labor in 1913, and by
annual reflections and seniority was
advanced to Seventh Vice President in
| 1914, Sixth Vice President in 1917,
Fourth Vice President in 1918, Second
Vice President in 1923 and First Vice
President in 1929. He was elected
First Vice President every year since
1929 until 1889, when he declined to
be candidate for reelection after
twenty-seven years Of service.
The 1889 convention of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, in honor of
Mr.. Morrison's work, adopted res
olution creating the office of Secre-
tary Emeritus and named him to that
position for life. In addition, the con-
vention directed the Executive Coun-
ell "to have prepared and engrossed
in suitable manner resolutions setting
forth our everlasting appreciation for
long and invaluable services rendered
by Secretary Treasurer Frank Nor
rison to be presented to him under
circumstances worthy of and in keep
ing with that spirit Of fraternity,
friendship and good will that prompts
these expressions"
Resolution Presented to Morrison
! 1t was in conformity with this di-
rection of the 1889 convention that
the Executive Council at the dinner
in honor of Mr.. Morrison and Mr..
Duffy presented Mr.. Morrison with the
following engrossed resolution:
| WHEREAS, For forty-three years
Frank Morrison has served the AM
erican Federation of Labor as Secre-
tary, with the additional responsible
ity for the last five years of Treas
urer, these services beginning with
the early formative years when poll
cies were in the making, and continu-
ing through the struggle which made
the Federation a national institution,
powerful in both the economic and po-
litical fields; and
WHEREAS, His services have been
a directing force in the growth of
the American Federation Of Labor
from 264, 1926 in 1897 to over 100000
in 1889, and his vigilant conservation
of the funds of the Federation OF
Labor resources were put to the
constructive work of organization and
education of wage-earners as trade
unionists in order that they should
be able to advance their own interests,
and through his work as Secretary of
the Federation, his shrewd and kindly
understanding of human nature, he
helped to bind men and women to-
gether in the work of the movement
with spirit of loyal devotion to the
advancement of Labor; and
WHEREAS, AS a duly elected ex-
ecutive he did his full duty in assist
ing our pioneer movement to deter
mine and maintain those constructive
union policies which have been the
foundation of the Federation's de-
velopment; he served as member of
the Federation's Committee on Labor
Representation, and the work of this
Committee laid the foundation princi-
pies for the Federation's non-partisan
political policy aggressively launched
in the Congressional elections Of 1906
and in the presidential campaign of
1908; and
WHEREAS, Frank Morrison, more
than any other Federation official,
was active in formulating and secur-
ing the enactment Of legislation reg
ulating and controlling immigration,
he helped bring about a national pol
icy which made possible the Ameri-
canization and organization of immi-
grant workers, thereby ending labor
policies based upon the availability OF
new immigrations not yet accustomed
to higher American standards or able
to speak our national language, and
led the pioneer struggle to establish
the right Of wage-earners to member.
ship in unions of their own choosing
the right of unions to carry out their
legitimate functions unhampered by
repressive labor legislation or judicial
interference, and these efforts led sue
cessively to the labor sections of the
Clayton Antitrust Law, the Norris.
LaGuardia Act, and of the Nationa
Industrial Recovery Act and the Ma.