The Cotton Factory Times. — 1914-11-13 (Manchester, Greater Manchester, England)

OOO. The United Textile Workers raid out in tier cip;,n tax to the American Federation of Labour $1.560. The expense. of Secretary Flibbert for the year amounted to $l4B. _ .  _ One of the earlieet pieces of bus-Mess V• 111 the posing of a Tote of canals, against Sernator Doric. of 'New Bedfirrti. for voting against Labour levt year, which vras accomplished by 48 tot. to 13.  A Wordy Duel. Next came a duel between President Golden nod Secretary iiibbett with reference to the Textile Journal, the official organ of the United Textile Workers. The fight started by Delegate Minim, introducing a resolution ceiling for the control of the Textile Journal to he under single heed, and giving the Executive Committee the pourer to compel the officers and otganisere of the orgariestion to contr;bute artio:ea to the journal at least  President Golden save his masers; for discontinuing writing articlç. or, the journal. He arid during the coune of his rap'snatien that he had found out that the man who had been engaged to do the work of soliciting advertisements wan a man whom he despised in more then one way, and a man whotn he considered hod 71,1 }twines, to le engaged as a paid agent of the *United Textile Workers On behalf of the Textile Journal. It was teen that there heal been no contributions from him for over a month. heat chore "run a reason. He had contributed to the journal more than asv. 011.0 else, the managing editor inc'usled Mb... best is the managing editorl. He went on: "I wrote nntil I discovered that there 1,8 a 'non working fen the journal Sc/1,/ lead no br1N11,1,4 snoh work, and especially working for the U.T.W. The managing ed,tor was in Europe that Particular time. T found that tbs man had hima doing work for the National Loom Fixers' Assncitation jcs,rol, sin organisation tl-xt had ma,,aaa Inn the UT W. T informed the Emeegene, cora: mittee of what I hod discovered. and when thn 11,AIIISTITIo editor returned from 5.„..04 him I about the men who uriA employed, and „ha, I I thon,ht of this name men. "The woretasy informed me that he had niacin an investigation about certain reports, but had found nothing against the man that warranted his severing connection with the journal. .3.ati wee eurprintol aoma time later on to final that this man wasetill at work. Then I went on !strike, and I have not written any articlee to the imbruel since tiltat time. T want it to be understood that T have no charge to make against the secretary of thin orraniration. But from TO,n,t I have haa,4 about money transactions with than advertising agent, I come to the conclusion that there mast be SOMAthing IrMatle about this man. and I believed that it was against the testi interests of the textile i workers to longer employ him." Editor's Defence.  Seorelary Hibbert. in the course of his reply. stated: " To nry mind the president is responsible for the conduct of the journal. inawnuch as he was the one who selected the editor. I am the editor. I believe now, from whet the pr,wident hag said, that you have the wrong editor. I have done what  I could for the journal. I have no objections to any criticisms that may be offered about the I journal, but I have decided objections to any state- I silents that I can a grafter. The president has said 1 that this man paid someone so much a year for doing that kind of work. He doesn't exactly say that I was the one who got this money, but the inference is there just the same, and I won't stand for it. I have worked for this organisation 14 years. I have given some of the best years of my life to the textile workers. I have even ruined my health, but I don't pretend to sit here and have a Iman infer that Jam a grafter. It was a meat i cowardly act on the part of the president to take I advantage of me when I was 3,000 miles away from 1 home. From this day I refuse to be the editor of the Textile Joirrnal. I refuse to be placed in the position of a man even suspected of being a ..  grafter." President Golden remarked that he had yet to find the millionth part of a reasom even to suspect the secretary was not honest. Further discussion ensued, during which the withdrawal of the journal was proposed. Per Capita Tax. . .  Six hours' debate was devoted to a motion to increase the per capita rate from 15 to 20 oents. per quarter all round. It was strongly supported , by the president. The Secretary, on the other hand. contended , that the proposal was in direct violation of the action of the Providence Convention of 1897, and ' was nothing less than trying to compel the 15 cent unions to come over against their will. At 1, the Providence Convention it was voted: "Thin in the future all unions joining the international shall pay 20 cents per month per member, for whioli the should pay a etrike benefit of $4 per week and a death benefit of $35. Unions already in existence having the privilege of coming over when they were pleased to do so to the 20 cent rate, but that no union should come over until it suited its eonvenience." Secretary Hibbert said , ' the-evmvention-merht Anzio its agreement. I Secretary O'Donnell, of the Fall Ricer Mole I Spinners, stated frankly that if the increase be'' mime operative there was every reason to f ear that there would be disruption in the unions in Fall River." The proposed increase was finely defeated by 45 to 35. A somewhat undignified discussion arose over the proposal to remove the headquarters from Fall Rover to New York. Mr. Hibbert considered the. step would amount to financial suicide, bin it vras carried by 47 to 23. and it is understood that the removal intl be effected some time before January Ist next. Mr. John Golden as president, Mr. James Tareey as past viee-president. and Mr. Hibbert as secrettwy-tamasurer, were all re-olected.