Show LEADERS IN AMEa american ICAN federation OF LABOR A 14 0 I 1 I 1 W A ti air the american federation at of I 1 aasa abi the th greatest labor body in the work i im lio juat just concluded its it labor at ali su orlene IR is making hie his annual felitt to the federation mr mir soura al a startling note ul of warning io 10 mid adlla in part unie our unions radically kli kill moa change their nurse and ces cels quarreling among themselves over iii jj diction we shall at no distant db alto be la the midst of an internecine coa coi tt test unparalleled in any year of the 4 du world aye not even workmen of different trades were ai ar inked against each uther other behind barri aidee in the street streets over the que question of arale trade beyard doubt this is i the grea teal dacer darger the th moet most profound problem which above all othere othera threaten threatens dia di A the success b t the existence ct f the american Fider atlon of babot be shouted I 1 would not now be up pr henle isM of the future of the faue n tion wre were it not forced upon my deliberate judgment whirl has ha developed into conviction thai that we an ars facing facan a crisis far more important than kiy be rl re allied houd by the effort of ibe the chicago federation to eln gain it ton a a labor union the delicate de loates to the amerian fele aaion tt of labor hare have started a m mv emert to the toach ere in alt all the ini lair cities of the country it Is their in to use the chicago alon ai as a and around it build up lip a national union strong enough to make istik a power la in educato I 1 circle the to to be formed ni as a trades union giai itale back at 0 it the full strength and cf ct the Amer lerm federation of 0 labor and each of if its locale locals li in to b t with the central body of 0 if its reap the city through its agency p tira ie is to be barred from the school systems sya tenia the examinations whitall all bandl date dates are required to as are to bo be conducted by parties outside the id la fluence of those in control wage wag are to be ita its efforts and the right of at placing a teacher on tho the unassigned hat list ti is not 4 ir the hande hands of one otie man or a committee of in men e n elected without regard to the interests Inte of the th tP president dent rompers cora pore haw has declared himself in favor of the patu and ie is ager to see it succeed fr fir the th bold field li Is a row one to trades ution fam and Is capable of herh nov noy 15 being the twenty flat birth day of the federation president ato dicent sam lid Goni lers juit just before the cloe close ot of business introduced a resolution pledging the loyalty of tho the tion to its original principles olee mr sir gom cam apts stated that he la is the only delegato delegate in the convention who attend the contention consention in pittsburg oo 00 twenty one bearis ago when the organ waa was formally claunc led te auditing com committee mittet the 0 I 1 A V za avda 21 I 1 I 1 axt y rr ar f 04 rj following financial condition of the or balanes on basil at the opening ot at the lat last floral fiscal year 8 total receipt total atah received during the year expends turf tures balance on an land at 3 1 21 6 1 the taoist important resolutions reeo lutton sul ab milled were aa a follows kat at the good offar t of 0 the nir ing executive exe cutis e council 11 be aske I 1 for ill ills working deop e and to provide a yett ln vt of national for their assistance dujua du liik enforced idleness that the ambrif an federation ot of la bor bar appeal to congress to submit to lh the legislature of 0 the averal varal vc ral states aste a proposition for or an amendment to jio he general constitution which chall pro hibit money fine in court and put the a of ju t ie le to rich and poor upon tre tte same that 1 1000 be appropriated by the to further legislative work lor tho improvement of 0 labor condl eions la in north carolina south carolina gongla Ata alabama bania Flor florada lda and that the federation aid ald ai at much as possible the passage of at the bill introduced into the states senate by senator Kc mccomas Coroa of maryland to cure payment for overtime of labor era or on government mork mark that the federation coi damn the recent utterances utter ancee of Iree luent I 1 hot of harvard college in which he characterized scab workers as heroes li eroe that to recognition be extended by the federation to any laboring man holding a political office that congress Cong reea be asked to ap ate mon man y for the purchase of the min ing lands in the choctaw nation max morris of denier denver chairman of tho the committee on central bodies read the report of that body which con bained the following recommend a tlona tiona that where local union unions are widely separated they club together for the purpose of rending sending delegates to the conventions convent lone of the federation the long fight between the united brotherhood of carpenter carpenters and join ere era and the amalgamated Am alamat il association of workers haa has icon teen adjusted the ca de maudA that the woodworker woodworkers charter be revoked and aud they be b ordered to ake out carill cards in the brotherhood the matter vae was beard board by a committee of at the com conan en an I 1 the carpenter carpenters wr were defeated |