Show ACTION SOON TO BEGIN AT ATA A Its F L METING MEETING Entrance Into Politics and One Big Union Are Topics PORTLAND Ore Oo Oct 4 Cf CA W Action Action was vas due duo to to begin be ln here to- to today today to today day at the th annual convention of ot the American Federation of ot Labor resolutions all being In the th hands of committees and the preliminary business of ot the th gathing been disposed of ot Leaders howe er en I nero ere not expecting early carly disposition disposition disposition tion ot of the more Important imp Issues Isques Proposed participation o ol o the ted fed federation fed federation In politics polities and suggested changing of ot the tho basis of ot organizations organizations organizations from crafts to Ind in inline inline line lIno with the one on t big ts s union idea IdE-a were ere ere among the th matters to bo e de- de decided decided de decided co s VES STRONG G ot of proponents of ot a I 1 lesO- lesO icso lution for tOr of ot let loo Russia in an attempt to ha hae hav e the resolution transferred from the tho resolution committee to the Inter Inter- International international International national affairs a wa wai 11 in- in interpreted interpreted In Interpreted by leaders as a straw in inthe inthe Inthe the wind v showing tho Ing the strength ot of the conservative element in the con cons The convention has been work work- working working work Inc ing short hours while v committees hate ha been working overtime to get the great mass of ot material materia ranging from international questions to jurisdictional dIsputes dispute of ot unions In shape shapo for final action OPPOSED TO RADICALS Leaders and delegates who have so far tar e expressed pressed themselves In- In Informally informally In Informally formally in the tho convention hall ball or at the hotels have hav indicated no movement on foot toot for tor any ch in the th official family of ot the federa federation tion President Samuel Gompers loses no Opportunity to reassert hi his post post- position position tion in th the opposition to radicalism I X believe th the American labor movement prefers to make con con- constructive constructive con constructive and demands he said laid ald In an address The Th labor mo ement In America has bAS done so much for tor American workers the American people that there anything that can eliminate It 11 not ithe the tho bitter antagonism of employers employer and big business and high finance not the serpent which Is tolas trIng sting us u in the that th heart tol |