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Show Brotherhood Cannot Join the American Federation of Labor I DENVER. Tune 24. The Brotherhood Brother-hood of Locomotive Firemen and En-Kinemen En-Kinemen cannot affiliate with the American Federal Ion of Jabor. ac- 1 cording to a statement today by D B 'Robertson of YoungStOWn, Ohio rice j president of the Brotherhood, which is in convention. "The American Federation of La-. La-. bor," said Mr. Robertson. "Is so 'framed constitutionally that it can i give representation to only one of leach of organized labors branches I The Brotherhood of Ixcomotive En-, En-, gineers already is a member of the ! federation and represents th engineers. engi-neers. If our brotherhood, with membership mem-bership composed of both firemen and enginemen. joins the federation, representation rep-resentation could only be given to the i firemen, as the ensinemen already are I represented by the Brotherhood of Jxcomotive. Engineers" The morning session of the conven lion was devoted to reports of special beneficiary committees oo Honesty between husbands and wives is the best insurance against divorce. 1 |