Big Defense Fund

Cincinnati, O.. Dec. 16. The seoond day's sessior. of the sixteent i anaual convention of the Am - , ation of Labor was ealled to order by President Gompers vith all tfc L25 delegates present. The eommittee on credentials asked for farther time. resolution was adopted requlring the tommittee on credentials to make a final and complete report by tpmorrow. The only full report w. 3 from the eommittee on rules. The other eommittees asked for a reorss so they could get at their work. A 1 . . obs was then taken till 2:30 p. m. The eommittee on grlevancea at once began oonsidering the case of the lathe workers and maehlnists of Cleveland. Most of the agitation is for an effective eight-hour law and the establishment of a defense fund. This fmul they would provide by an assessment of 2 cents per capita. The memberBhlp of over fioo.ooo would secure a ifitrge fund. The opposition to the re-election of the present offleers la dying out.