The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-07-15
| Tron-Moulders' international Union.
| REroRT ON COOPERATION AND THE RELATION OF

EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYED.
The Iron.Moulders' international Union
IN convention assembled yesterday, discussed
| the system of apprenticeship and other sub
jects of interest to the trade.
| The Committee on Cooperation, Mr.,
Thomas Casey, of Montgomery. Alabama
chairman, submitted report saying,
I" That they deem it necessary for the
Iron.Moulders' Union of North America to
establish shops of its own on the following
! plan: The president and vice-presidents to
constitute board of managers, whose duty
/ 1t shall be TO select the site for the shops and
appoint the superintendent and book-keep.
ers. Aud they shall come phreDoiogically
| recommended: and said board shall transact
all other business fer the successful carrying
on of the said shops without any compensa-
ton. 1t shall require a.majority vote to trans.
act business, and there shall he ten cents per
month for every member reported, aepropri'
| ated for the same, and they recommend that
the Board of Managers of this Union be EN-.
powered, if deemed advisable, to borrow
| money from local Unions upon the security
Of the United Iron Moulders' Union ol
North America for the establishing of said
institutions. Your committee would most
respectfully submit the following statement
in support Of their report: Whilst we be-
| leve that labor and capital cannot be identi.
cal except through cooperation, and we still
| further believe that our Union should be
self-sustaining, your committee further be-
! levc in the adoption Of some system to Sc
cure that end. They recommend the estab'
| lshment of national shop in some locality
where the United Iron Moulders' Union has
no Jurisdiction, affordng protection to those
who may be organized, and inducements
to those who are not, to become
Union men, which would be com.
pensatioH enough by the increase OF
members. if there could be no dividend de-
clared on the capital stock invested. We
also believe that it would stop persecution to
great extent by the employers. Believing
| that the combinations OF The employers are
intended to annihilate us, your committee
| think it is necessary TO make some sacrlhce 10
| meet them. Your committee has taken into
consideration the arguments which may be
advanced as to the inability of the Union TO
carry on shop without being chartered
body, but such being applicable to the Or
ganization as it now exists, has removed all
doubt from the deliberations Of the commit
tee in this respect. And for further safe
guard for the money invested, your
cOIQuIlleG NOuh ISCUmLucNo tua1 q
State charter be obtained from whatever Safe
said shop may be located in and in conform
ity with the law governing cooperative in
stitutionS in said State. Your committee
has also taken into consideration the action
of some employers in advancing their own
peculiar Interests and their greed for wealth
TO the humiliation and ensavement of their
employe:, whilst other employers are con-
tent with twenty or thirty per cent. The
action Of those whose intentions are to an
nihiate US compel iair.minded men to pursue
the course which they do, and We believe 1t
is tue duty of this organization to come to
the rescue Of all such men, and establish
institutions whereby we can reap the reward
of our labors and secure the elevation of our
trade"
This report will come under consideration
to-day, and is sure to elicit lengthy and
animated discussion.