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Pick Officers
Resolution Fuvorinq
District Vote Amonq
Proposals Endorsed
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
HAGERSTOWN. Nd, May I'll
The Maryland State and District Of
Columbia Federation of Labor
turned today to election of officers
after a business meeting yester-
day, when many resolutions were
adopted, including one favoring a
staggered payday plan for Federal
employees.
Another resolution petitioned Con-
gress to allow citizens of the Dis
trict to vote.
Removal OF existing Government
agencies from Washington unless
deemed necessary for national de-
fense was protested and abolition
OF discrimination against Negroes
In all Government departments and
IN the national-defense program
was asked.
Accident Board Favored.
Congress was urged by the dele
gates to approve a bill establish
ing an industrial accident preven-
ton board in the District. Merger
Of the retirement system of Gov
ernment employees in the District
with social security fund and un-
employment insurance under the
Social Security Board was opposed.
Several Washington delegates are
candidates for Offices to be filled at
the annual election this afternoon.
They are John Locher and Harry
j. Thompson, vice presidential
nominees. and Frank J. Coleman,
secretary. Mr.. Coleman was nom-
mated unanimously for his 18th
consecutive term. Joseph D. Nc
Curdy. president, was renominated.
Other candidates for vice presi-
dent are Frank N Karshner. Balti-
more; r. L. Kiefer, Baltimore: John
L. Geist, HagerstoWn; Paul w. Eng
land, Cumberland; James Walto,
Cumberland. and G. Kingston How
ard, Baltimore
Other nominations, all unopposed,
were Robert Lester, Baltimore. treas
urer; Robert Buxbaum, Baltimore,
organizer, and M. F. Heatly, and
Harry Cohen. Baltimore. as dele
gates to the National A. F. L. Con-
ventlon.
Defense. British Aid Backed
Support of organized labor for the
national defense program and all
possible aid TO Great Britain was
pledged in a resolution proposed by
the Machinists Union and recon-
mended by the Resolutions Com
mittee. 1t gave full support of the
Federation TO the program of ma
tional defense now under way in an
all-out aid to Great Britain
The convention Endorsed the Fair
Labor Standards Act and adopted
a resolution protesting any relax
alton of State and Federal laws
enacted for the protection of work.
ing men and women"
Another resolution adopted vigor-
ously condemned the provisions Of
the Vinson bill, which the resolu-
ton said would make 1t a crime
for the workingman to strike for
any reason"
The convention urged all unions
and union members to contribute
to national defense funds through
the purchase of National defense
bonds and stamps to their full
ability to do so.
Leo H. Mccormick, supervisor Of
the Department of Labor Wage
Hour Division, stressed the benefits
OF the overtime provisions of the
Wage-Hour Act as an incentive to
putting unemployed workers back
to work.
Other Resolutions Approved.
Other speakers yesterday in
cluded Henry Eyler. labor relations
director of the N. Y. A; Harold T.
Caldeen, regional conciliator for the
Department of Labor. and Arthur
Schoenthal of the apprentice train
ing section of the Labor Depart
ment.
Other resolutions adopted includ-
ed these: Favoring an amendment
to the workmen's compensation law
to bring Office workers under its
provisions and entitled to compen-
sation on the same basis. indorsing
the policies of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. indorsing Rams
peck bill amending the Civil SerV-
ice Act so that employees may re-
tire at so at their option after 80
years of service and condemning
employment Of women bartenders,
urging proper installation and in
spection of elevators and escala-
tors in Baltimore.
The convention praised Brig. Gen.
Philip B. Fleming for his admins
tration of the wage-hour law. COM
mended Gov. O'Conor for changes
in the Maryland compensation law,
and indorsed Representative Will
liam T. Schultz of Indiana for his
labor record and assistance to or
ganized labor.