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Show Lg q V y gi q egi g 91 Gompers Attacks Labor Plank I PARTY ACTION I JUSTCOWTRAflY I TO if AIMS Tribunal Way of Settling Pub-. Pub-. lie Utilities' Strikes Is Very Objectionable H CONDEMN ANTI-UliON FUND OF MERCHANTS ''Color Line" in Unionism Or-Bif Or-Bif dered Wiped Out After 1M Stormy Session MONTREAL. Juno 11. The labor fo&flS plank adopted by the Republican na- rjlwfrsl tional convention was condemned SKtmI here today by Samuel Gompers. pres- wSll idenL of the American Federation of I'al Labor. He referred especially to the section of the plank providing for the settlement of public utilities' strikes i!":jpM by tribunals similar to the Ksch- flfeiHH Cummins' transportation act of 1920. The plank, Mr. Gompers asserted, qKtfjM1 Is directly contrary to what labor had jKfK demanded of the Republican party. d&jjH lief used Labor Suggestions.. IViB "We n"id asked tho convention to w)B po on rocorcl m favor of the repeal ol- tnc compulsory arbitration tions of the transportation act,"' he Mill addod, "but tho Republicans appear, Sj&mI to have not only refused our sugges- tio but would extend it to nil util- $05mM , Mr. Gompers arrived here today $9H from Chicago, where he had present-! SgsJM i'd labor's demands to tho national ?!fMMj Republican )Ialforin committee. Pttl -v Fear "Open Shop" War. &jjflH Declaring: that tho iferchanrs' aa- 9irtf3H sociatlon und other business interests StXiftr' r -1 n 8rY rltreU-we-fn i.-ring' a fundi ftfV ' oC ?5, 000.000 to carry on an '"open ?fr-H shop" war, James K Coatello, of the fpK Brooklyn Central Labor council. as- &Hf i ed the convention of the American; Federation of Labor to help the strik- fM ing transportation workers. ' He re- 2j;H eclved unanimous consent to intro-duce intro-duce a resolution to this' effect. The 'iircH resolution was referred to a commll- ! The Colorado State Association of tVWB Journeymen Barbers notified the eon- 3lJ;B vention by telegram that It endorsed ajkB tho federation's non-partisan politi- niJH ca' program and was opposed to any I 9H 1 third party proposal. lllH Charges Railroads "DLMioilesl'' 4iiBr ' Charges that managements of Am- V-mIH? erlcan railroads are "dishonest" woro x'Sflg made today by Glenn E. Plumb, orig- 'lEfll inator of the Plumb jilan for public; ownership of the railroads, in ad-i VKSI dressing the convention. They can- lW9M not be otherwise, he said, under thci vilfSl present system. iwfll "There is every Inducement to be 'uftH dishonest at the present time." he add- -'lM et "They cannot be condemned. 1 ijKH would trust ray own integrity as a j&KH leader of a great railroad." PJKflP The Plumb plan, the speaker as- $$9ml ' serted, would relieve the managc- ipJldH mcnts of railroads of "the damaging1 SpfH i temptation and give them an oppor-j HUB tunity to-be honest as iney would be VfMW I under private ownership. ' ifprB Convention Adjourns. ! Sj&ifl Attcr the San. Francisco council had bcen permitted to introduce a reso- wHaII lution calling for an investigation of iMyiHjl tho 'salmon canning Industry on the iyngsjl i Pacific coast, tho convention adjourn- JtB od until tomorrow. gjfeill When asked what would bo the re-' sult of the rejection of labor's de-mand de-mand by tho rccpubllcan party. im. SiRiB Gompers' only comment was: rasp! "You may draw your own infer- Iuivo -egro fnu itigms. The American Federation of Labor in its annual convention here yesterday yester-day wiped out the "color lino" and warned lto affiliated international unions un-ions that nero workers must be given full and equal membership with white men. The federation's action came at the' end of a stormy session, which nearly resulted in a "race war" between delegates del-egates from the southern states and the ncgroefc and their wj'mpathlxers. Rejecting the rccommenuation of its organization committe'e, the fed- & v ( oration for the first time in history k threatened tho autonomy of an at- L filiated union by requesting tho Bro- " therhood of Railway Clerks to give the negro freight handlers, express and station employes full membership member-ship and. eliminate from Its constltu-, constltu-, lion the words "white only." "Ojio Big Union" .Men Busy. Indignation of the negro delegates wan aroused several times during tho debate when speakers referred to them as "nigger" freight handlers I and their objection to such remarks 1 was sustained by tho acting chalr- I man, James Duncan. I . An appeal to the workers to desert 1 the federation and align with the I. One Big Union, spread broadcast I' through the city today, asjortod that I; craft unionism was "doomod." The I circular, addressed to "all fellow l workers," and warning them that the "satellites of craft unionism" were 1 ' in their midst was the first open 1 attack on the American Federation Ik by the One Big Union organization I of Canada. |