People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1895 — WILL NOT MIX IN POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

WILL NOT MIX IN POLITICS.

Amt-rUan Feiler.itlou of Labor State* Ita Position. New York, Dec. 18.—The Federation of Labor adjourned sine die Tuesday afternoon. A proposition to form a national organization of unskilled labor was adopted. Delegate O’Sullivan presented the following resolution, which was carried by a vote of 1,460 to 158: "Resolved, That this convention declares that party politics, whether Democratic, Republican, Socialistic, Populistic, or any other organization, should not have any place in the Federation of Labor.” A resolution indorsing the struggles of the Cuban patriots for liberty was adopted, as were resolutions on the death of Allen G. Thurman. The convention went into executive session to consider the report of the grievance committee, after which it was announced that the dispute between the Metal-Polishers, Buffers, and Painters' unions and the Brotherhood of Brassworkers had been discussed, and th&t the convention adopted a resolution that the two organizations meet in convention and adjust their differences. The question of electing two fraternal delegates to the British trades union congress, to be held in B»ndon on Sept. 3, 1896, w.as then taken up. John McBride, the retiring president, was elected one of the delegates by acclamation. There were two nominations for the second delegate. They were Adolph Strausser, of the Cigar-Makers’ union, and J. W. Sullivan, of the Typographical union. Strausser was elected, the vote being: Strausser, 952; Sullivan, 657. Sullivan was made the alternate. The steamfltters’ strike, which has been on for several weeks, was further extended yesterday by the calling out of 2,000 more men. The men called out are: Carpenters, plumbers, housesmiths, and sheet-iron workers. There were already 900 steamfltters on strike, and this brings the number up to nearly 3,000.