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A. F. of L. Sharpens Fight With C. I 0.

By FRED W. PERKINS 2 Scripps-Howard Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 1.~Results of the American Federation of Labor convention include an important step toward labor unity in an earnest invitation to John L. Lewis and 600,000 United Ming Workers to return to the A. F.of L., but in the C. I. O. direction the

“ struggle for dominance appears to

be intensified. Principal conflicts appear in the

" fields of labor legislation, national

politics and international labor organization, The A. F. of Li demands revision of the Wagner (national labor relations) act, in two respects vital to the struggle with the C.. I. O. As expressed by the resolutions committee, they are: “First to provide, in the language of the New York labor relations act, that no craft or class be ‘denied the right to vote as a craft or class in the selection of a bargaining representative, which will guarantee freedom of choice and the maintenance of craft union integrity contemplated ‘by the act; second, to provide for direct court

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freview in representation cases,

which is now denied under the act.” 4 These chahges were called for be. cause the A. F. of L. has decided that the national labor relations board “functions more as an agency of a rival organization (meaning the C. I. 0.) than a quasi-judicial body set up to administer & law calling for the highest judicial and administrative integrity.” Further, ‘says . A F. oof L, “Experience has shown that efforts to change the disposition of the board to aid and assist rival unions are well nigh useless.” The demand for Wagner act revision, which the C.I.O. obviously will resist strenuously, promises to provide a test in the next congress on how much water the rival organizations draw in legislative and administrative circles; whether the A. F, of Ls previous standing, fairly high, has ‘been whittled down through the apparent political suc cesses of the 0.1.0. This will be one form of political conflict, which is epitomized in the declaration of Dan Tobin of Indi-

stapes, a power in the A, P, of L.,

that it was his Teamsters union and not the 0.-I O. Political Antion | Committee which held enough labor votes to bring about the fi election of President Roosevelt. The A. F. of L.-C. 1, O. quarrel inf

summarized :

The C, L O. is striving for recognition in the international ‘labor pitcure, but has been balked so far

as the majority (and older) American labor organization.

organization. The A. F. of L. has refused to

C. IL O. in either the I. L. O. or the International Federation of Trade Unions. cause in both bodies the constitution provides that representation shall be from the majority or predominant labor body, Since the A. F. of L. stands pat the I. L. O. has been trying to find a way out, its present technique

being to organize a new interna-

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ALBERT B. FALL IS DEAD AT 83

Always Believed He. Would

Be Cleared Some Day of

Teapot Dome Guilt,

EL PASO, Tex. Dec. 1 (U. P.).— Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior, died yesterday, old and almost penniless. He was' confident to the end that history would some day clear his name of the part he played in the notorious Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil scandal that rocked President Harding's administration, His body was found last night by sisters at. the Catholic hospital where he had spent the last two years. Fall, who was 83 Sunday, had been under treatment for arthritis which had crippled him until he could no longer walk. Fall virtually disappeared from the public eye in 1929 when he was convicted of bribery in connection with the leasing of the Elk Hills oil reserve to Edward L. Doheny, wealthy California oil man and onetime prospector friend.

Long Court Battle

The conviction followed a long court battle which had started five years previously with the investigation into the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills oil reserves to Harry 8inclair and Doheny. He served one year in the New Mexico state prison at Santa Fe, spending the entire period in the prison hospital under constant care. Although Fall ‘was convicted of taking a $100,000 bribe from Doheny, his friend was acquitted in the same year, -1929, by the same court, the U. S. district court for the District of .Columbia, of offering the bribe, , Fall had served eight years as a senator from New Mexico when President Harding appointed him secretary of the interior in 1921. Two years later he handed in his resignation, saying that he disagreed with the government's policy on Alaska, and the whole “conservation policy” with regard to national resources. Several months later the scandal in connection with the leasing of the oil reserves broke and Fall was summoned to Washington to testi. fy in the investigation.

Accepted $100,000

For some unexplained reason, Fall had accepted . $100,000 from Doheny and it was charged that he took it for a bribe for leasing the lands to the oil magnate. Doheny said it was a loan, Fall was indicted on two counts, conspiracy to defraud the government and bribery. The conspiracy charge was In connection with the leasing of the Teapot Dome reserve in. Wyoming to Sinclair and the bribery charge for leasing the Elk Hills reserve to Doheny. In the long legal battle that followed, Fall was acquitted of the conspiracy charge but convicted for bribery. He appealed the conviction but the appeal was affirmed and Fall made the trip from his

| '150,000-acre ranch at Three Rivers,

N. M, to the prison in an ambulance.

Following his release from prison in 1932, Fall returned to his ranch, broken in health, and lived there peacefully until 1935 when he was ordered to leave by the Petroleum Securities Co., headed by Fall's old friend, Doheny. It had purchased the ranch at the foreclosure sale in 1929. Fall fought the eviction and eventually was permitted to keep the ranch house and 100 acres of land, which was not included in the mortgage foreclosure. Fall and his family never gave up trying to clear his name of fraud in the Teapot Dome scandal. Fall was born at Frankfort, Ky., in 1861, the son of Willlam Fall, a staff officer in the Confederate army and the JEgHnR of a Scot

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