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Show Great Labor Organizations Against Wilson Chicago, Oct. 21. That Samuol Gompi-rs cannot deliver tho American Ameri-can Federation of Labor to tho Democratic Dem-ocratic party Is Indicated by action takon at a mooting ot tho Chicago Building Trades council last night, whon a resolution was adoptod condemning con-demning tho AVIlson administration for "lack of sympathy with tho Amorlcan Am-orlcan worklngmon" and nppoallng to onu nnd a half million worklngmon worklng-mon throughout tho country who constitute the membership ot tho building trades department of tho "work and vote against tho re-election ot Woodrow Wilson." Tho Chicago Building Trades Council consists of thirty-four trades, with a membership of approximately 1C5.000 wago earners, 75 per cetit of whom aro mechanics. Every branch of tho building industry Is represented. Tho council was chartered chart-ered by tho Amorlcan Foderatlon of ot Lnbor through tho building trid.13 department of that organization. Tho building trades department, to which tho Chicago council appeals, constitutes MORE- THAN ONE-HALF THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE LABOR LA-BOR ORGANIZATIONS OF WHICH MR. GOMPERS IS THE HEAD. Resolutions Adopted. Tho resolution adoptod by tho council reads: Whereas, tho members of our affiliated af-filiated unions, employed by tho federal fed-eral guvcrnmont In tho building op-orations op-orations on tho Panama canal zono, have repeatedly drawn our attontion to i tho posltlvo disregard ot their rights as organized wago earners, by tho officials of tho government who havo discriminated against tho mochanlcs ot tho building trades by roqulrlng thorn to work for a lower scalo of wages on tho so-callod maintenance main-tenance work than that which pro-vails pro-vails on construction work, and Whoreas, tho distinction drawn between be-tween tho classes of work roforred to Is both absurd and uncalled for, and will finally result in tho gonoral adoption of a doublo scalo, first by tho government, to bo later followed by omployors In competitive enterprises enter-prises through tho United States, and Whereas, our soveral national organizations or-ganizations havo furthor openly complained com-plained to the federal government through tho war dopartmont that alien, Ignorant, unsklllod laborers aro bolng employed In gradually Increasing In-creasing numbers in tho mechanical division ot our sevoral trades, at a wago 5.0 per cent lower than tho pro-vailing pro-vailing wago rate which Is gonorally recognized and agrood to by our competitive com-petitive contractors, nnd, Motives of Government Whoreas, it Is plainly evldont that tho motives of government officials is clearly ono of elimination by which tho highly skilled American mechanic mechan-ic will bo displaced by tho non-cltl-zon laborer or "handy man" at tho sacrifico of tho building Industry In general, and. Whereas, a contlnuanco of tho por-nlclous por-nlclous plan, ns horowlth rovlowed, will Inevitably rosult In tho wholosalo wholo-salo dumping of Incompetent, Ignorant Igno-rant and Irresponsible allon labor In tho already overcrowded contors of industry to ontor Into suicidal competition com-petition with our Intelligent Amorl- can mechanics that aro-tho bono and sinew of our country, and, Whereas, tho ropoatod appeals ot our national officers to tho government govern-ment In Washington for redress remain re-main unnoticed, therefore, Be It resolved that wo CONDEMN THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION FOR ITS LACK OF SYMPATHY WITH THE AMERICAN WORKING-MEN WORKING-MEN OF THE BUILDING TRADES AS WELL AS ITS INACTION IN ADJUSTING A GRIEVANCE THAT IS OF THE GREATEST CONCERN TO THE MECHANICS OF THE BUILDING INDUSTRY In tho United Statos, and, Bo It further resolved that wo urgo our members anu sister councn throughout tho country to work and voto ngalnBt tho ro-oloctlon of Wood-row Wood-row Wilson, |