Twin City Review

MONTREAL MEETING PROVES TO BE BENEFICIAL

By International Labor News Service.

Montreal, May 27.—The meetings of the executive council of The American Federation of Labor held in Montreal, Canada, have proven of importance to all wage earners from both a national and international point of view. Considering purely national affairs the executive council not only formulated labor's demands to be presented to the major political party conventions to be incorporated into their respective platforms but likewise issued a pronouncement addressed to these political parties urging the favorable consideration of America's workers, the highest type of men for the selection of both presidential and vice-presidential candidates and calling upon all wage earners to help realize these hopes and aspirations in international affairs.

The executive council emphatically expressed its determination to combat all independent, dual, seceding and national organizations of labor organized to weaken international unions and divide the workers of the United States and Canada. Its challenge to this disrupting influence is best expressed in its call upon all international unions to renew and intensify their organizing campaigns in Canada.

Conferences between the executive officers of the Canadian Trades Congress and the executive council of the American Federation of Labor resulted in the understanding that all of the forces of labor of both Canada and the United States shall be joined in resisting any and all movements, under whatever form or title, the purpose of which is to undermine existing institutions of justice and freedom and the destruction of or overthrow of existing trade unions and governments on the North American continent.

Congress was urged in unhesitating terms to enact a most effective immigration law and that all log rolling tactics on the part of those opposing an effective restrictive immigration policy come to a speedy end.

It is the unanimous opinion and conviction of all that this meeting of the executive council proved extremely helpful in bringing about a better understanding and greater solidarity between the wage earners of the United States and Canada in the onward march of constructive progress to which the American labor movement is dedicated.