Show To Abolish Convict Contract Labor CHIcAGo August Representatives Representa-tives of the largest manufacturers in this and adjoIning States begnn a session here today to consider the cest method of securing the abolishment of the convict contract labor I J Lewis of Racine Wisconsin was elected chairman chair-man He declared that the employment employ-ment of convict labor was as serious a menace to the manufacturer as to the laborer He advocated that the con vjc s should be employed on public roads After lutenirg to a series of prison statistics the session adjourned to 3 oclock CUICAGO August 26At the meeting today an organization was finally effected ef-fected to be known as the National AntiConvict Contract Association the object is to be thorough investigation of the subject of contract laoor for the purpose ot discovering and securing the adoption of a method of employing prison population the least burdensome and oppressive to the free labor and I manufacturing interest of the country G T Lewis Racine Wisconsin was elected president Christopher Holz Chicago first vicepresident F J Upton elected vicepresident for Iowa Charles L Bradly for Wisconsin H M Kinny for Minnesota the vice presidents for other States to be appointed by the executive committee The Concessional enactment prohibiting prohibit-ing the sale of convict labor goods outside out-side the State in which manufactured was endorsed by the convention Resolutions were passed asking ask-ing that the government be required re-quired to withdraw Federal pris oqera from State prisons worked upon contract system and that the purchase pur-chase of prison labor products for government gov-ernment use be made illegal The com mttee was appointed to formulate a method for employingconvict labor less oppressive to industrial inferests than now Adjourned r |