| Show laws that congress feht to pass STRIKES AND BOYCOTT how they should be conducted explained by president bompers aa den 18 A anant ity of important cladma the at of the delegates to the convention of aba american oi labor today president Pre aident rocca that tha organization demand tho lassaga of law by congress the first monday in september as a leeal holiday in the district of columbia and the the jurisdiction of the general government and a resolution reso lulion to that effect adopted whoa the question tion of boy cotts wa reached president gamonera spoke aa follows 1 I desire to upon your mind the resolution adopted at the st lonia convention dpn ane report of the committee having ahat subject auder consideration every local deeina to take upon itself the to levy boycotts and spread them belore the altire country it beams to me that before people should be aaker to laboo a product of any firm opportunity should be giyen for investigation and no boycott arcoe iced unlash approved by the centen executive council in the interim of ane conventions Conven tiona of this fed eudon the boycott is a very powerful weapon in the of abo wage kera hut if put on a firm unfairly or without investigation likely to react apon us and destroy tha s of that method to obtain ear rights then again entirely formiga aai to the trades unions 41 1 I iain A ican fedaration Fed crAtion of labor 1 de irli irl i IB a large degree in carry ait i tu a ter u m tace lucions affiliated to the I ceratsou of bahor sevall buc ats placed upon unfair firms by the american federation of labor bieve terminated successfully I 1 that thia convention will take soifia action by which it will distinctly for action in reference to the levying and supporting of boycotted boy cotte the matter was refined to a committee on tha trouble that have grown out of the adoption of a uniform label the president pres said the last convention directed that a label be for the product of the members of the aeration Fe ration ef labor who have no othar label of their own aitt ough the lab 1 has not been in great demand I 1 attribute it to the fact that we have had very little opportunity to make its generally knon in connection with llie issuance of the label it mould be proper to call our to the fact that a decision was recently by a justice of aba supreme courtot the state of pendryl vania athi h if te stand be uie il the alowa which be buhn upon the rights of organized labor it qi etiola our ri rbt to imbue a libel to tha char niter of the duct bearing it in fact the decision of judge williams is that inasmuch inAe much as the wage kiri jo not awn the product they cannot hae a label to too character of the labor employed in its production A niue niu e decision in the interest of abe wealth and against the beaith producers has seldom been rendered even in tho eat days of jurisprudence your attention is called to this decision because if it is it will render nugatory all efforts to place a label on the product of I 1 gioi labor it 13 aly tha first time that forgery ami haie been judicial and official auction the of alie mc terra goold b empowered to coo co o aerate ith tho anilia ted unions ia order to fit cure guch legislation aa may be necea ear to ov the obstacles presenter or a reat real of the decision 0 the court in question the dele eAten from the acu act brought up tre of the con labor m eliat fand president compera explained aa i hows abier which i special committee waa appointed appoint Bd to adjudicate apon the inn tier ahou on the lecture conr in the I 1 reached san i I 1 placed myself in lion the executive of tha brewary Work mens union of the pacific coast and endeavored earnestly to work to bring about a settlement of the differ them and the national Work mens union the aub j act matter necessitated a of visitors and a laree about of correi pon dence I 1 regret very to siy i h it no of the trouble baa benn accomplished thus far I 1 deem alifi caie ca ie ot sufficient importance to IK it before the attention of this because of the at the detroit convention in nuan ending the federated council of alio chaat from the ameni 10 fc ration of labor because it a limited to representation the brewery bunion of the pacific cocci S nee li it year a convention aa arld of a the I 1 enors of the pacific cordt tak kf in r i am 0 from e wash ft ion to and inclusive of california a 1 british columbia ahat anven on ven lu pr rally established a fadera t n cide of the american federa u of labor and I 1 see acome a ince nent is made bv which tie dif i ties referred to ahall be 0 o with alie same pur p see in view having local unions r in each and which c n burk on para lei lines sooner or air greater convicts connic ts will arise and in t tad af aiding each other we may see internecine strife in alif L nion of our country I 1 bruet eliat ahia matter will receive our consideration and that y lu will take some action which may 11 a measure ihring peace nd unity with the brewery workers unions winch arc m interest in this in irom which the whole itic I 1 ti 01 will either bu 1 |
