Show ti t- t LABOR UNION i E EXPELS PEL i R His Views on Capital Punishment P Punish Punish- nish- nish ment merit Are Severely Con Con- STRONG STAND IS TAKEN lotion Action of Councilman In Ad Death Permit Penalty ol In Invokes cs Wroth of r Workmen I Chicago July Unusual G-Unusual Unusual action was taken by 11 organized labor tonight ht when a local union o of the International al St Steam am Engineers unanimously passed pass poss cd ell a resolution expelling a a. member who Is at al present representative e of I the tho Twenty eighth ward In the city council because of a resolution he succeeded In ht having passed through the council about six weeks s ago o re recommending recommending recommending re- re commending to th the state stute legislature as the consensus of oC the Chicago city council that the p penalty penally of or capital punishment bo po extended by enactment enactment enactment enact enact- ment of a n new law to cover el the crime of assault upon women Incidentally Incidental Incidental- ly Iy the tho union takes taws a strong stan stand against all nil forms of capital punishment punishment punishment punish punish- ment In In the rhe following resolutions Text Te l of Jk Ite Whereas s The labor movement from Its s birth has stood for COI the tho highest ideals ls of humanity anti and Whereas One of oC the foremost Ideals of or mankind Is to soften and humanize the human race until liberty equalIty equal equal- It Ity and fraternity are woven Into the warp and anti woof of our dull dally lives JI and Whereas A member of this organization or organization recently elected to the city council from flom the Twenty eighth ward of or this city has either Ignorantly or defiantly of time tho whole spirit of the trade tralle union movement Introduced Into the tho city council resolutions requesting the extension of capital punishment and anti Whereas Tho The forces working forthe for 01 forthe the uplifting of or humanity lY the world over o are arc unanimously arrayed against this form of brutality and lIIn Victim t Whereas herem The working people themselves themselves them them- selves es except In very rare instances are the thc only victims of or capital punIshment punishment punishment pun pun- and Whereas That while we deplore I the outrages on women and children which were given gl as an excuse for the Introduction of said resolutions In the city elty council still we Wt insist that insane in- in sane asylums and hospitals hospital are arc the tho proper and only places for or the weak weak- minded creatures who commit them any any other position will be a tion on the lie innate virtue of the tho human human hu hu- man race therefore be he It Resolved That local union No 3 International Union of Steam Engineers Engineers Engi Engl- I do de e now purge itself of or an any andall andall and amI I all responsibility for said resolutions lJ by expelling Daniel Herlihy from front membership JI h I in this organization and Repudiates ts t's Resolved That we call upon the civilized an and humane citizens of the Twenty eighth ward to repudiate the inhuman and ami cowardly sentiments monts of If f their representative e In iii the Chicago city council 1 Resolved hc That a of or th these e e re resolutions be forwarded to tit the tho Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago Federation of Labor and that body bolly be requested tell to Indorse the 8 same me The originator of oC the thc above c resolutions resolutions resolutions Is is b besides being secretary of the local union n No 3 3 vice president of or orthe the Chicago Federation raC on of Labor and It is more than likely his Influence will force similar action b by that bod body |