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...manufacturers-were to be remedied by the passage of a new bill, containing an automatic, blanket copyright feature, framed by Representative Albert H. Vestal of that most profusely literary state, Indiana. Also in Washington to boost this bill were Novelist Will Irwin, Songwriter Gene (Follies) Buck, Laborite Matthew Woll, Hearstling Karl Kirchwey...
Candidates. Next day, in Manhattan, the Executive Committee of the American Federation of Labor met and chose a successor to serve out Mr. Gompers' term. There were three candidates: James Duncan, for 30 years Mr. Gompers' lieutenant; Matthew Woll, President of the International Photo-Engravers Union; William Green, Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers of America, a man but recently come into prominence. All were Vice Presidents of the Federation and hence of the Executive Committee which chose the President...
...giving the office to Mr. Duncan was that he, aged 67, was a veteran who deserved recognition before his retirement. It was never contemplated that if he were chosen by the Executive Committee he should be given the office again at the annual convention next fall. Friends of Mr. Woll pointed out that he was youthful, that of all the candidates he had been closest to Samuel Gompers. It was known, further, that Mr. Gompers had wished that Mr. Woll should succeed him, although the latter belongs rather to the radical wing of the organization. William Green was the candidate...
...Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Baptist, a Democrat. For over ten years he has been Secretary-Treasurer of the United Mine Workers. He is quiet and rather retiring. His policy is nearer to that of Mr. Gompers than is that of Mr. Woll, Mr. Gompers' own protÉgÉ. He does not favor a third party or labor party. He has been active against communist propaganda and the extreme radicals in the labor movement. He has leaned to the progressive group in promotion of a Workers' Educational Bureau and in support of Government ownership...
Father Ryan is Secretary of the Administrative Committee of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the U. S. His committee, by granting Mr. Woll's plea, will prohibit imports of religious material estimated at $35,000,000 annually, and will transfer this business to U. S. printers, engravers, binders and allied tradesmen...