Show WORK OF LABOR LEADERS Delegates to American Federation Adopt Many Resolutions Scranton Pa Dec 9Tine committee commit-tee on resolutions of thc American Federation of Labor convention this morning reported a number of resolutions resolu-tions and the delegates immediately proceeded to consider them These resolutions n were adopted Pledging the assistance of the federation fed-eration to the Journeymen Tailors union In Its contest for free shops Petitioning Congress to amend the marine laws HO that every seaman shall have the right to quit any merchant mer-chant vessel on which thc service has become obnoxious to him also to prohibit pro-hibit h towing on the oceans of gigantic rafts The committee on labor reported the following resolutions which were adopted That the federation refuse to recognise labels gotten up by rival unions of the TobaccoWorkers International Inter-national union rclndorslng thc blue label of the TobaccoWorkers union that the federation draw up a form of obligation that will Instruct all new members to demand the union label wherever they purchase manufactured goods indorsing thc union stamp of the International Union of Journeymen I Journey-men Ilorseshoors and Indorsing the label of the Actors National Protective union I A resolution boycotting cigars made by child labor and machinery cause 1 along a-long discussion Many delegates maintained main-tained that the federation could not successfully oppose the introduction of machinery They advocated thc organization organi-zation of operators of machines like those s Iio operate typesetting machines ma-chines The resolution with the word machinery stricken out was nriopted Somo business of a purely routine nature was disposed of and the convention con-vention then adjourned until tomorrow tomor-row morning Before the adjournment President Gompers announced the appointment of W D Malone of the Amalgamated Street Car Railway Employees and President John D Mitchell of the United MineWorkers as a committee to take charge of the street car strike in this city |