Show I 1 I 1 blacklegging Black legging erton ism scored worlds fair nonunion non union contract condemned president gompers declares that the constitution has been violated I 1 A V general closes mills because union hen iden aro are employed and a united states judco judge forbids the holding of union meetings rill LAD dec 12 at the afternoon session of the convention of labor 1 aed federation aeration the delegates were entertained tor half an hoar by john Siu inton a new york journalist in a savage attack on illaci and trickery ery the labor of the countr country he be said has been paid millions of collars dollars this year which it would surely havo have lost without different the help of the striking brethren at different points the speaker on eluded with an ail appeal for union of all labor a organizations on fundamental principles the committee on creden credentials reported delegates entitled to admission and the report was adopted A resolution was introduced at the request of typographical typographical union no 16 of chicago denouncing e the proposed awarding ingo of contracts tracts for the 1 pair fair catalogue to a nonunion non union bouse house and demanding that the tork work go to a union house after considerable debate the resolution re was was a somewhat omea hat modified and adopted I 1 resident gompers read his annual report P 0 aca lie said sahl in ili part invents events have transpired p on the field of labor the last six olitha olit hs which have argued arous mol public attention because incidents n c id n t connected co with them were jil fabre 0 e or or il less es s of an unusual c character har acter in ili each of these labor struggles the tile employers corporations simply made a request ana and armed forces of the stale state a and nol united states were at their bidding at coeur dalene at the bidding of the tile mine owners united unie states tates were brought to coeur dalene a and n d troops t the ae men overawed over awed and subdued th the e commanding general of the united stated forces bissu issuing ienir an order that any employer who would operate his mines with union men would not be allowed to continue work A united states judge issued an order prohibiting u union rilon miners from holding meetings in 0 other ther words the constitutional right of a free assemblage was violated by a united states judy judge ard a general of our army declaring clar ingan and enforcing an edict that an employer shall not carry on business because he aafred to employ union men the action of the judges and officers of the united states was flagrantly in violation of law and I 1 believe it Is our duty to demand that tho the congress of the united states institute an all investigation it is plainly evident that the militia of our several states are now never utilized except for the purposes of os ostentatious ten ta ti ous show or as an element in labor struggles there is not even a it pretense that they should be what they were originally designed for instead of being a popular organization in defense of homes and fi resides it has defected into a machine for monopolistic oppress sion against labor the toilers boilers need at this time to answer the and odthe of the oppre oppressors mors with an organization with ith the tile 0 object of financial aid in I 1 view december of this year ear has been designated as homestead day and allare all aro requested to contribute a portion of their barnin gs that day for tile purpose stated theodle because we are riot entirely successful in the enforcement of the eight hour movement for all orders in ili the past it is useless for us again to make an effort to establish a limitation of the dally daily houra hours of labor there can bo be no question but that unrestricted immigration la is working creat great injury to tho people of our country notwithstanding our peti lAon and our pro test congress has las practically closel clo wl the worlds fair upon the da day I 1 most readily at the disposition of the tile workers 0 r ers we should urge congress to w repeal tho the act let congress con reas some time tim e ago granted subsidies to age tho pacific mail steamship company and incorporated a provision t that at seamen v I 1 I 1 employed by b y tho the company should be I 1 american citizens the company in I 1 question has since violated the provision odthe of the law aw by employing chinese sailors I 1 would recommend that the convention would enter its most emphatic protest against supplanting our american sailors 9 by chinese and call upon the president of the united states either to compel the company in in question to provide by tho the provisions of the law or withdraw ith draw the subsidy grant granted eol in obedience to unanimously adopted adopted instructions a counter proposition to t tho ose ie submitted by the knights of labor was I 1 transmitted to general of that order the tile officers answer wag was discourteous a and insolent ini sinca since then wo we have heard nothing I 1 in ill gefen reference to ahe subject matter the report of secretary evana evans was then submitted bvans said during t the he vear commencing november Io emberl 1 1801 and benain ending Oc 31 charters were issue in ill 32 31 states of the union in ili addition to the tile above 8 charters were issued to the national unions making a total for the year yeah the national unions affiliated alo aho received through the office of the tile american federation of labor 37 charter applications I 1 in a comparative statements state to rece recel lUts nta and expenditures ho lie caid mid the receipts for the last year were and expenditures as na compared with 21 SAD received the year yeah before and expended the convention then adjourned until tomorrow |