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Show I AEROPLANE INDUSTRY TO HAVE NEW LABOR UNION ST. LOUIS. Nov. 17. Aeroplane building build-ing Is recognized as a now branch of American Industry In a resolution presented pre-sented to the. convention. The carriage and wagon workers' International union of North America, In a petition to the federation, sets forth the decline of the carriage and wagon building Industry and stated that It was duo to automobiles and the aeroplane. The members therefore asked that their charter be broadened to Include the trades engaged in these new agencies of transportation. trans-portation. The new name which the union desires Is the Carriage, Wagon & Aeroplane Workers' International Union of North America. The petition was referred re-ferred to a committee. Other resolullona which have been pro-sen pro-sen ted to the committee and which are causing discussion among the delegates are those proposing old age pension measures meas-ures and opposing increased freight rates. The pension proposal is that congress shall Be asked by the federation to enact en-act laws providing for pensions for married mar-ried workers over sixty years old who are without means and out of employment. employ-ment. The amount suggested Is a month. The rate resolution sets forth that the roads are now making large dividends divi-dends and calls for the nppolntment of a committer of Ave to Investigate and set the matter before tho public. Ken Turner said the British, industrial situation was fraught with evils, most of thorn copied from America. "Capitalism and trusts," ho said, "are thfe chief of these. Employers are conscienceless con-scienceless and remorseless, consumed by a rage for gold," said Mr. Turner. A revolution asking that laws or treaties treat-ies he made to exclude ail Chinese and Japanese from the United States and from employment on American vessels were offered. The committee applauded with great vigor when R. P. Pottiplece, a fraternal delegate from British Columbia, Colum-bia, spoke in behalf Qf the resolution. "Tho Japanese are masters of warfare," war-fare," he said. "As they arc now In our midst, they are little' less than an armed force. We cannot bring them Into In-to the unions. We must be protected ngajnst them." The proposition is in the hands of the resolutions committee. |