Show I WAGE AGE REDUCTION MEETS OPPOSITION AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR LABOR LA BOR IS NOT IN FAVOR OF ANY WAGE CUT Shorter Working Day Also Is Advocated Advocated By Labor Officials At Atlantic Atlantic At- At lant lantic c City Convention Many Were Present Presents s Atlantic City N. N J. J The J.-The The convention of the American merican Federation of Labor has gone gOnO gone on record as favoring a policy of or wage increases and reduction reduction reduction tion of or hours in proportion to the individuals individuals individual's individuals individual's in in- increasing power of t tion Lion A resolution adopted unanimously asks wage earners everywhere to oppose oppose op Ope pose wage reductions and to urge upon managements the elimination of waste in production In order ordet that selling selling sellIng sell- sell Ing prices may be lower and wages higher Saying that high wage standards standards' assure sustained purchasing power and means to enjoy cultured opportunities opportunities opportunities the resolution proceeds We declare that wage reductions produce industrial and social unrest and that low wages are not conductive conductive tive to low production costs Social inequality and industrial instability must increase the resolution resolution resolution tion adds unless the workers' workers real wages coupled with a continuing reduction reduction reduction re re- in hours are progressed in proportion to mans man's increased power of production Explaining the new policy William Green federation president said We are on the threshold of or a great industrial era We Ve are living in the Infancy of giant power A new condition condition condition con con- is here and we must meet it The convention favored nonpartisan non parti san support for congressional candidates candi candi- dates favorable to trade unionism A committee reporting on this subject said that the tho newest reactionary campaign plans to overthrow tho the American form of government and antI replace replace replace re re- re- re place it by a supreme executive It declared that proponents of a movement movement move move- ment against the power of congress would like to set up another Mussolini ini faI and to abandon primary elections The convention voted to suspend the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship clerks unless within three months it yields jurisdiction over drivers chauffeurs stablemen and garage to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Representatives Representatives Representatives of or the tho clerks announced that the embers em ers of their brotherhood brotherhood brotherhood brother brother- hood would rather give up its charter than surrender jurisdiction Santiago Iglesias of Porto Rico offered offered of of- a resolution asking that the tho federation protest to President Coolidge Coolidge Cool Cool- Coolidge idge If investigation proves that the entering of or United States troops Into Panama was uncalled for |