LABOR: A.F.of L. Votes

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Finally President Green sagely pointed out that unemployment insurance could not be obtained without an organization that would force men to take any kind of work which first presented itself. That, said he, would sound the knell of unionism. A thundering viva voce vote was taken. The ayes, the resolutions committee and President Green had it. As a consolation, the insurance agitants were permitted to place on record a snarl at the Capitalist system in general, bankers in particular: "Prior to the Depression it was mainly the bankers who encouraged the people to put their funds in towering pyramids of investment trusts. These trusts were organized by banks and are still involved in the financial crash that brought on the Depression."