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would have a hearing.There was a tempest In a teapot over charges that Herman Robinson, the Financial Secretary, had organized a union of• * upholsterers out of men who had remained at work during a strike in a factory. Dele-gate Hatch of the Upholsterers’ Union, who made the charge, said that Secretary Robinson knew the character of the men he was organizing.Other delegates said that indiscriminate organization by agents of the American Federation of Labor was doing harm to the labor movement.* %' , #When Robinson, who is a general organizer for the American Federation of Labor, managed to get a hearing, he said that representatives of the people who were organized came to him and asked him for information about organization. He inno-«■cently gave them the information, and they were organized through this means.Half a dozen delegates affirmed that Delegate Robinson had organized people in other trades in cases where organizations were already in existence. A motion was made to investigate the matter, whereupon Matthew Barr of the Sheet Metal Workers’ Union said:“This would not be investigation; it would be procrastination. We know that Mr, Robinson has organized these people, and why do we delay passing a judgment? Mr. Robinson, if I understand rightly, is paid so much for every union he organizes, and the more he organizes the more money he makes, without any reference to whether it harms the labor movement.”Robinson indignantly denied being actuated by this mercenary spirit. He said that he was not paid in this way, and had often given his services free.After a hot debate it was decided to write to the firm whose employes were organized to the effect that the Central Federated Union repudiated the new organization of upholsterers.
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Mon, Jun 16, 1902
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