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Show SECOND DAY'S SESSION OF THE A. E. Of L; TO PROHIBIT CHILD LABOR PITTSBURG. Nov. 14. The second day's session of the American Federation Federa-tion of Labor convention was rapped to order promptly at 9 o'clock by President Presi-dent Gompers. He called John Mitchell, second vice-president, to the chair, and James Duncan, first vice-president, read the annual report of the executive council. It gave in detail many of the points covered in the reports of the president, secretary and treasurer. The coppersmiths made application for a charter, but it was denied, and the organization was urged to affiliate with the Amalgamated Sheet Metal Workers. Arrangements have been made for the consolidation of the two organizations. Protection of Children. In the matter of the protection of children, the executive council had bills Introduced In the Legislatures of many States prohibiting the employment of children in mills, factories, mines and Industrial establishments. The progress made during the year was not entirely satisfactory, and President Gompers was authorized to enlist the assistance of other organizations In securing the passage of legislation In all States prohibiting pro-hibiting the employment of child labor. la-bor. It was decided that in the future the executive council shell not interfere in disputes between labor organizations unless the unions involved have exhausted ex-hausted all means to bring about an adjustment ad-justment of the differences. Aid for the Printers. An assessment of 1 cent a member a week for a period of four weeks was levied on the entire membership of the , Federation for the benefit of the International Inter-national Typographical union in its efforts ef-forts to establish an eight-hour workday work-day in the Job and commercial printing establishments in the United States and Canada. |