Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-10-07 | Page 3 | Labor Unions would Cast out the I. W. W. S.

HiGfl UNIONS ; WOULDCASTOUT r. THEJJ. W.'S California State Federation Adopts Resolution Recommending Recom-mending Expulsion of Disloyal Element. IRON TRADES MAY WALK OUT AGAIN Temporary Settlement for Patriotic Reasons Not to the Liking of the V Leaders. SACRAMBN'TO, Ca., Oct. 6. The California Cali-fornia State Federation of I-abor went on record liere today against the T. TV. W., adopting a resolution recommending expulsion ex-pulsion of all members of that organization organiza-tion from unions of the American Fed-eration Fed-eration of Labor. The delegates also made plans for a voluntary assessment on all California labor union men outside T a.n Francisco of one hour's pay as a benefit for striking San Francisco street car men. "With reference to "the activities and practices' "of the Industrial Workers of the World, the resolution says these "having interfered with and hampered our government in the successful prosecution prosecu-tion of the war." Regarding expulsion of the Industrial Workers of the World, the resolution sets forth that these men "have an avowed policy of destruction toward all existing forms of society and particularly the policies of the American Federation of Iibor," and "through ignorance on the part of the public the misdeeds of the Industrial Workers of the World are j sometimes laid at the door of the Amerl- J can Fed era 1 1 on of T -abor. " ' Delegates to. the next convention of the American Federation of Labor were in- 1 struct ed to introduce the resolution be- , fore that body'a.nd to urge its passage. 1 A. resolution favoring a second strike of the iron trades in San Francisco, t which was declared probable, and claiming claim-ing that the temporary settlement recently, re-cently, when 30,000 workers returned to shipyard jobs, was for patriotic reasons, wfl-s adopted.