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Show ! An Eight -Hour Iaw Asked For. j Washington, December "11. The labor federation to-day adopted the report of the committee on resolutions that the remedy of ' "boycott" ha3 been grossly abused so as to endanger the usefulness of this legitimate and powerful weapon in the hands of the working people, and to protect their rights and interests; that some organizations resort re-sort to it for trivial causes; and they give instances where rival factions of workmen I had placed a boycott on union employers or firms employing union labor; the Federar tion, therefore, discountenanced such proceedings pro-ceedings and deprecated it on account of the odium cast upon t he working classes and the injury to their interests, r Resolutions were also adopted oalling upon the President to suspend Judge Snell of .this city, because, of his hostility to the Trades' Unions. .A resolution reso-lution instructing the legislative committee to induce the President' of the United States toenforce by proqlamati'n ijn m ha. f on Myt1h8eight hour law .was also; adopted. ; -. -J |