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Show MQRRISONWILL I HAVEOPPONENT FOR SECRETARY American Federation of La bor Election to Be Enlivened Enliv-ened by Two Contest ; Consider Corona do Case CINCINNATI, O., Jun II By A. V ). Troepecta of a aocond t?onieet In tha election of the riecutlve cnunctl of tha America,, federation of lker, at Ita convenilun here, loomeil up to day aa a movement ot under y for William Clarke of Totedu, preel dent of the American rllnt Olaaa-worker' Olaaa-worker' union, to content tha reelection reelec-tion of Frank Mormon aec rata ra-ta rr. No formal announcement of candidacy candi-dacy waa made by Mr. Clarke, but he Indicated a vrllllnane to enter th rare by eaylnt, i am In thahanda 1 of my friend. The other contest for the council I promised by Joarph A. Franklin of Kaneae City, prealdent of th Holler makers' union, who haa announced that he will ronteet th reelection of Iantel J. Tobln of Indiftnapoila, head of the Tea mat ere union, aa treaaurer. Klectlon of tha council I amort a the last bualnesa to coma be ft ire the convention and deletatra today ex-peeled ex-peeled that It would b held next Friday. No content for nine placea on tha council, which I headed by I Teat dent Humuel (lorn per, waa In thl today. to-day. Mr. Morrison ha been secretary for twenty-five year. Mr. Claike, In laat year's convention, seconded tha nomination nomi-nation of Mr. ttnruiera In tha latter' fisrht with John I Leewla, tha minora' leader, for prealdent, Tha convention went Into It second week today, with moat of It moat Important Im-portant bualneea a wait In; floor consideration. con-sideration. An Important development, aalde from the convention proper, came today, to-day, whan a half score of lawyera from all part of tha country iratn-ered iratn-ered to amide tha federation special policy c-rnmlt tee In framlna a pro-irtm pro-irtm for combattlna; tha supreme court' decision In th Coronado coal case, which held labor unions subject to damage under tha Bherman antl-treut antl-treut law. Tha committee's report Is the special spe-cial order of bualnesa for withdrawal before tha convention, and meanwhile tha commute will confer with counsel, coun-sel, iha fi ret meet in; coming tnnlffht. B. M. Jewell, president of th railway rail-way employes-' department of tha federation, fed-eration, head tha committee. "Full moral and financial aupport waa pie. tared to the New Knajland textile tex-tile worker, now on strike, by a reao-lutlon reao-lutlon adopted unanimously today by the convention without discussion. Th convention also adopted a resolution res-olution favortnf tha forty-four-hour work week throughout the prlnttne; Industry. Tha resolution pledged th federation' "moral and all other help, ful aupport' to tha International Typographical Ty-pographical union In Ita fight for the forty-four-hour week. |