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Show GOMPERS AGAIN HEADS FEDERATION I NOMINATION IS FOLLOWED Br ROUSING CHEERS i Only One Man in Labor Convention Con-vention Fails to Vote for Re-election JAMES DUNCAN OF SEATTLE IS OPPONENT Federation Lays Plans to Organize Or-ganize Telephone Operators Opera-tors of Nation MONTREAL, June IS. Samuel Gompers, veteran president of the American Federation of Labor. waS unanimously re-eleclcd for the thirty-1 ninth time by the convention here to-1 flay. j v.toiiii)cr iiuuiiiuiLiuu Perkins, of the ciar makers' union. ( was the signal for a prololiged ova-; Hon by delegates who stood and I cheered for sevoral minutes. James Duncan, of Seattle, was re-, corded as casting the only negative! vote. '. . .Report Is Denied , I i In accepting' ro-'doqtioiu Mr. Gom- pairs-- Ueiilod-Tullshcd--ropor- that! Ji(? had attempted to - et the exec-u-1 tlve council tq Incorporate in Labor's parties a request for modification of1 ynii Inn lnwa In normit tho slip of light wines and beer. While admitting that the matter recently had been discussed by the council, he added that he had not taken any stand on the question and had not "suffered any defeat At the hands of tho executive council." "I accept tho call to dntv." he said, "and will o"bey." The support of .hc organized railroad rail-road workers In the federation was pledged to President Gompers by Charles J. MacGowan, who seconded his nomination. He said the convention's conven-tion's action In indorsing government ownership as a repudiation- of the la-construed la-construed as a repudiation of the labor la-bor leader's administration. Other Officers Named Other officers re-elected included: James Duncan, of Quincy, Mass., first vice president; Joseph F. Valentino; Valen-tino; of Cincinnati, second vice president: presi-dent: Frank Duffy, of Indianapolis, third vice president, and William Groon, of Coshocton, O., fourth, vice president. Tho federation today authorized a natlon-wido campaign to organizo all tho telephone operators. Organizers are to Lake the field at once. The convention declared Its action nocossary because of the "oppressive! anti-labor policy of tho Bell TeJM'lono company and its associated compan-J lea." I Labor Memorial Day The amendment to tho constitution j to increase the exccutlvo council from 11 to 15 members was rejected by a vote of 23.097 to 13,841. This action prevents ;ho election of four additional addition-al vice presidents. The fourth Sunday in May of each year was designated as Labor's memorial mem-orial day, upon which labor throughout through-out tho country be called upon to "pay a tribute to the memory of Its dead. The churches also will be called upon up-on to co-opcrato In tho observance of Labor Sunday, the day preceding Labor La-bor day in September. The national steel organizing campaign cam-paign headquarters at Pittsburg, Pa., will not be abandoned, it was announced an-nounced today. It will keep up propaganda work among tho steel workers. |