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Show POLITICS HAS NO PLACE IN UNIONS ' BLOOMTNGTON", IIT.. The international convention of Journeymen Tailors' union of.-America, has . voted down a resolution seeking to commit the union as an organisation, organi-sation, to the principles of the Socialist-Democratic Socialist-Democratic party. In a speech. General Secretary Lennorr said partisan politics of every kind must be kept separate from the trades union movement: President T, A. Rickert of the United , Garment Workers of America spoke in favor of alliance wlth'ttie tailors to fight the-Merchant-. Tailors' Protective association. associa-tion. The convention selected a committee to meet a similar committee from the garment' gar-ment' workers to. arrange terms of amalgamation. amal-gamation. They will meet in New Tork or Washington within' the next three months. Resolutions were adopted favoring an International union of tailors. |