The American Federation of Labor closed its 43rd annual convention at Portland, Ore., by unanimously re-electing Samuel Gompers as its President. All the other officers were reelected, and El Paso was chosen as the seat of the A. F. L. convention in 1924.
Large numbers of resolutions were acted on in the closing days of the convention. Some of the more important ones passed:
¶ A denunciation of the I. W. W.
¶ For continuation of Federation's National Non-Partisan Political Campaign Committee.
¶ I For modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale...