| Show AG lUIN st SLAVERY rII American of Labor rN Stat em n I Detroi Detroit Dec Am American Fe Fed Federation ot of Labor today declared against sla slavery very within th the jurisdiction ot of time the States In the We se our previous position on questIon namely that there must bl be no slavery or serfdom by ownership or contract t tolerated under time Amen Amerl cm can hag Ilag mind that we will anyone any one whose action shall In any wa way mi mill tate thIs principle of hUlan responsible for tor such action In Ineer eer every manner o open n to us usI I It was as slated 00 slave slaves tre are arenow now working unde under contract In the Ha ha Islands that evasion ot of the con contracts tracts commit commits them to prison that their time In prison Is adl added to their terms lerms of serfdom and that time thc net ud ad admitting to the States do domain domain main for tor continuation ot of the contracts n a for tor repealing that feature having been voted down b by the Senate The convention adopted the declare declara ton tion unanimously A proposition for establishing a 11 court courtot ot of five arbitrators to be appointed b bl by l each ch annual convention ot of time the federa federation ton tion to settle al all qu questions tons or of jurisdiction between the ramious federated bodies A majority ot of the dele gates atea 18 b beld l thai such arbitration would be unfair Resolutions were adopted as FR hours for barbers urging the to provide more sea seaworthy worth ICo life boats requesting placing ot of unIon labels on bok books h hot t lug machIne coopers under tiun j of coopers union endorsing granie Iut ut tere contention for Cor an eight hour day tiny I 1 requesting nil federated unions Which are connected ni wih with the tho Chicago build leg Ing trades counci council to Instruct their dale gates there to f so vote that the local unions ot of granite cutterS shall not be I wih In following legitimate craf craft lines In Chicago After Atter considerable thin queston question or of granting n a char charte te to the piano and organ workers giving them jurisdIction over certain other factory elpIO employee S was The convention then went ent Into exe votive session under special order on the proposition to release the linotype machine tenders tender from Jurisdiction ot of the typographical union J j |
