St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-28
THE TRADES ASSEMBLY.
Measuring Condition and Progress
mir. Rreen 10 be ROYcOIIed.

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Twenty-eight delegates were present at
the meeting of the st. Paul Trades assem-
bly, last Friday evening and i'm the absence
of the president, Vice President Hopper
called the meeting to order. q. A. Lafay-
cite of the committee on convict labor re-
ported that a Joint meeting of the three
committees representing the Trades assem-
blies of the twin cities and the Labor lyceum
would be held in Minneapolis next
Friday evening" to be followed by
mass meetings in both cities. 1t had been
learned that columns had been put in the
opera house for S37 by the Saltwater COM
pany when ST. Paul shops could not have
put them in for less than 500. 1t was par
tally evident that there were some convict
labor complications about the court house
JOB. A. l.. Robinson, for the boycott COM
mittee, reported that there was but one
boycott left on the board out of several that
were Oh month ago. all the others having
been successful. The enc left was Bren-
nan IL White. boot and shoe manufacture
erS, and a member of the ShOemakers'
union said that the nOn-uniOn men lately
employed by the firm had struck, and the
company would probably be compelled to
give in in few days. Reports
from trades were all encouraging.
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statistician and all delegates were requested
to cooperate with him in every way posi-
bic. A vote of thanks was rendered Aid.
Kahn for copies of the
MUNICIPAL CODE
and the proceedings of the council. In ac-
cordance with request from local Massa-
chusetts assembly boycott was declared
on cigars manufactured by the Atlantic
Cigar company and Lathrop Lee of that
state. The trouble between the Cigar
makers International union and K. of l..
Assembly No. 40 of New York, regarding
the new white K. of L. label for cigars,
was brought up and consideration post
poned until the next meeting. A committee
of three was appointed to confer with
Dennis Ryan about the use of prison
cut stone in his new building.
A motion was made declaring boycott on
Mr.. Breen's stone, and long and rather en-
thusiastic discussion ensued, in which the
court house contractor was handled without
gloves. Several speeches were made by
parties who had been on committees sent ia
interview him. and it was said that during
a period of several weeks the Stonecutters'
union and the committee from the Trades
assembly had been to see him time after
time and that they had only been snubbed
anu lDSulI6u. lHCy oiliy oShSA " ~
IGNITION of the union and the same wages
and hours that prevailed in other yards OF
the city, but he had always refused TO rec.
ognize any labor organization and proposed
to fight it out. He had said that be would
spend $4,000 TO break up the Stone
cutters union. Mr.. Lafayette said thai
| in talk he had had with
Mr.. Breen, that gentleman rendered the
opinion that all men belonging TO unions
were rascals and said that the st. Pau
! Trades assembly could go to hades. His
manner had always been independent and
insulting. Everybody was enthusiastically
in favor of boycott as the only means LET
to compel Mr.. Breen to recognize unior
labor and grant its just demands as othel
contractors had done. On motion the mat
ter was referred to committee with full
power to act, and the secretary was in
structed to inform the trades assemblies o.
Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Chicago o.
the action. The committee yesterday in
formed Mr.. Breen by letter of the action o.
the assembly and if after day or two h,
does not accede vigorous boycott will b,
declared.