Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-18 | Page 1 | Citizen Soldiery Favored by Lobor

CITIZEN SOLDIERY FAVDflfflDY LIBOR Federation Gives Indorsement Indorse-ment to Dick Military Law at Convention. ! PAN KK..nSi'(. Nov. 17. Unani- ' i nous indorfinenl oT the Dl'k military law was given todiiy by the Amcriran 1 Federation of Iahor at Its thirty-fifth annual ci-invention in this city. This action ac-tion was taken In considering the report of the executive council on t i j e J nek law, the question having been referred to tlie commtttre mi international relations at the Philadelphia convention. The exectitlvt councirs report on the Dick law whs adopted In full. In part it says: Our American traditions are wholesomely whole-somely positive asuinst the maintenance mainte-nance of a large standing army. We think it can lie safely and emphatically emphatical-ly stated that only a btna.ll percentage of the American people favor the maintenance of a large standing army. We express our belief In the need of a small standing army, to be supplemented supple-mented by a citizen soldiery, democratically demo-cratically organized and controlled, so as to prevent either the small standing stand-ing army or the larger supplement and its units to be used for or by any special privileged ' class, either at home or abroad. Much of today's session was devoted, to thc consideration of jurisdictional disputes. dis-putes. This Included a resolution by John ,T. Fitzpatrlek of the Illinois state federation federa-tion of labor, requesting that the federation federa-tion reopen the brick masons secession dispute and that if an Investigation convinced con-vinced the executive covmcil thaV. they should bo act, a charter should be granted the brick and clay makers. The executive execu-tive council agreed to lend all assistance possible to bring about amalgamation of the brick and clay workers, which would bring them back into the folds of the federation. A dispute of several years' standing between the International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen and the International ! Union of Steam Engineers was brought j up at the suggestion of the firemen who j objected to the engineers taking in fire- I men as apprentices. As at. previous con-ventions con-ventions of recent years, the executive j council recommended I hat the two unions! take up the quest-ions at issue In harmony . and endeavor to work out an amicable agreement. The question of an international union i of janitors, elevator operators, elevator starters, porters, scrubwomen, window washers and kindred occupations was referred re-ferred to the execut Ue council, with power to call a convention in Chicago next Januarv, at which the members oT the various locals will act. After this meeting, if the council sees fit, a charter will' he gva nted the Imer national union so organized.