Show COLOR LINE IN LABOR HEATED discussion OVER MATTER BY federation resolution adopted reaffirming the declaration that nil labor without regard to color is welcomed nashville tenn dec IS 16 when aher the american federation of labor met today tho the committee on oil resolutions introduced trod it a resolution urging tho the fed j citation of labor to give its carnes earnest encouragement to elie proposed ocels lation jai in behalf of the union barbers barbera of the country the ie i evolution solution was waa elli discussed by sevc several 1 ai delaga delegates dele gales les and III nally referred to the state brara branches chest without delegate rid elderkjn Elderk earkin ln offered a resolution reciting that as tho the supreme court in tho iho decision of tho the arago case him has held that specific enforcement of contracts to labor are not noi inhibited by the examination of tile the united states stales the I 1 american merl c a n F reder ed e M ailon li 0 n 0 of f ali labor a b or appeals p e t to 0 all i 1 i lovers v v 3 0 of f t their h el r kind 1 to watch r for and it if possible pr present elenE any legislation by ouy ally state slate or b by y which shall in III any ally way give furco force to the pi uld laid dow down ii in this decision the resolution also urges urged upon congress to blot from tho the prea ent statutes the provisions which now make this pi enforceable enforce ablo upon seamen and en one of the must important reports of tile the nil alas WH that of tho the special committee on convict labor it aad ft ad tile the sell se of tile lie committee that tho ei employment of convict labor all should 0 uld be prim primarily artly for self support and lit at tile furthest fuit faint hest for the making of goods gooda which should bo be used in state institutions the ick bill wh which I 1 ch 1 is to ho he introduced before congress Con grew embodies the iden of the committee and it is recommended that it be sanctioned by the federation the adoption of the of the was nitta moved but it atlas objected to 0 o by some that the bill does doca not plo ildo ido that tho the law rb c cover ver united states prisoners as well no as states prisoners boners and another reading nas w as called for the neato question occupied the major portion or of the afternoon session and a heated d ata brought on by a resolution resola lion in li od by henry lloyd the declora units of tho the federation that all labor regain to color Is welcomed to Us its banks and denouncing as aa un t iru ru in fact the reported state statements malts of f cooker booker T withington that th I 1 trade rade unions bere iere placing obstacles lit in the way ay of tho the material advancement of the th negro and app coling to the records of th ihal its s complete answers to 10 ciuch false ahn resolution cali caged ed much spirited decu slon Dt delegate legate jonos jones of august Au custa a go ga spoke claiming that the white laborer could nt not compel bilth v ath the negro nl pro laboi la boier cr though the ibm would imalove conditions magerl materially president nt gompers took pail la in the iho discussion explaining that tho the movement vas alas not noi against ell negro laborer but against the cheap laborer and that the textile workers of the eat had been compelled 0 contribute to their means to teach h laborers in the th south the benefits of organization lie ho also mado made the point that the CAT capital ital isis would profit by the failure of laboi laboid cro ii to organize thus ihus making the lle negro allegro an impediment to I 1 labor abor movements C P fiaher a nashville delegate dul teal insisted that tho th negral was not tile the equal of flip lh white hlll milin maji socially dally or industrially lie ho grew warria warm in ili speaking a k of president duit remarks the in tin labor movement and stated that tho the premont had not recall pill ill ahr comal commission ion of it a national oi gantzer who ila had beef patronized patronize a nonunion non jinn union in orenco to n a union allegro barbershop the organizer had simply been allowed allow ed to and no publicity had been given the matter in ili answer to 0 o a question regarding the name n title of the party part Y fralley stated it waa jesse johnson johnso n p president rs ident of tho th pressmen jam jami jama i oconnell OCon nelI and P J 11 cGuIre spoke of tin the resolution the litter latter insisted that booker T IVashin was waa to put ill the n arro gro before th to public os as tile victim of prow gross injustice and himself as aa a moses of the race 31 D ratchford insisted that drawing the color line would be an almost fatal blow to the th organization being recognized again mr fr jones ei asked ked whether there f be any efforts made lit in the last east to organize chinese na who in conflict v with ith union labor president gompers then ruled that the discussion must EE cease ase the resolution which had caused the heated delate debate waa tas adopted and the delegates went nent into executive session |